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Dow University likely to adopt semester system
KARACHI, Dec 19, 2007: The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), which has
already started postgraduate programme under the semester system, is planning to
conduct its MBBS programme under the same system.
This was announced by
the vice-chancellor of the DUHS, Dr Masood Hameed Khan, while speaking at a
scientific programme organised by the National Institute of Diabetes and
Endocrinology (NIDE) of the university.
Dr Khan also said that classes of
the newly-introduced MSc (diploma) in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the
university would begin from January 1. He said that a country could not make
progress without providing higher education to its masses.
Dr Khan said
that a modern research laboratory had been established at Ojha campus of the Dow
varsity, under which blood samples would also be collected through mobile
collection points at discounted rates.
Speaking as chief guest on the
occasion, Dr Tassawar Hussain, Principal, Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, said
that diabetes was spreading like an epidemic in the entire world. He stressed
the need for creating awareness about the disease among the patients and their
family members so as to avoid complications which made the treatment very
expensive.
The director of diabetes and endocrinology institute, Prof
Zaman Sheikh, said that in all ten candidates coming from the public and the
private sector had been selected for the two-year MSc diabetes diploma
programme. In addition to imparting education and training, the NIDE was
providing services to patients with diabetes and endocrinology without charging
a single penny.
Speaking about diabetes and relevant therapies, Prof
Sheikh said that prevalence of type-2 diabetes and obesity in children and
adolescents was increasing enormously in the country. Regular brisk walking and
adherence to a suitable dietary plan and change in life style could help avert
any severity, he said.
Prof Samad Shera said that about seven million
people at present were suffering from diabetes in the country. "The figure can
go up to 11 million by the year 2025, in the absence of appropriate measures",
he said.
A seminar on diabetic foot was also held.
In the
meantime, the Professional Development Centre (PDC) of the Dow University of
Health Sciences conducted a lecture on "Recent advances in minimally-invasive
treatment protocols for treating low back pain".
Dr Syed Nadeem Ahsan, a
Dow graduate at present working with an USA institution as main management
specialist, said that back pain was a very common condition sometimes difficult
to treat.
He informed the audience that much progress had been made in
improving the diagnosis and treatment of low back pain through refinement of
such "minimally invasive" tools as fluoroscopy, provocation discography,
percutaneous disc decompression procedures, etc in the last decade. Dawn
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