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NICH to offer degree course in nursing
KARACHI, Dec 18, 2007: The National Institute of Child Health will start BSc
Nursing in its paediatrics programme in the second half of the next year. This
was stated by the director of the institute, Dr Afroze Ramzan Sherali, on Monday
during a press briefing arranged in connection with the 4th annual symposium of
the NICH.
Dr Sherali said that necessary resources and appointments of
staff had already been approved by the federal ministry for offering BSc Nursing
(paediatrics) under the School of Nursing of the institute and this two-year
training programme would begin in July 2008, with the first intake of at least
ten students coming from various government sector hospitals across the
country.
She said that a fully computerised dialysis centre had been made
functional at the institute where on an average six haemodialysis sessions were
held for children, a couple of whom were waiting for kidney transplantation as
well.
Later, she said that about 135 children mostly coming
from poor families had been benefited through the MRI department which was made
functional in April last. Highlighting the salient features of the 4th symposium
of her institute, which is scheduled to be held on Dec 30, 2007 to Jan 1, 2008,
the NICH director said that over 100 scientific papers, including those by eight
foreign experts from India, Canada, UAE and Bangladesh, had been planned for the
symposium.
The theme of the symposium is "Challenges in paediatrics in
21st century". The inaugural session of the moot will be held at the College of
Physicians and Surgeon Pakistan (CPSP) on Dec 30 in the evening, with the
federal health secretary as chief guest.
Besides 12 subject-related
scientific sessions and three seminars, there will be one plenary session on Dec
31, where in an expert from India, Prof R N Srivastava, the regional coordinator
of the WHO and Dr Huma Qureshi, executive director of the Pakistan Medical and
Research Council will make three different presentations.
Dr Jamshed
Akhtar, the chairman of the scientific committee of the symposium, said that it
was a difficult task to select over seventy presentations out of about 500
abstract received from national and international physicians and child
specialists for the symposium.
The sessions will be held on the subjects
like infectious diseases, neonatology, gastroenterology, neurosciences,
nephro-urology, endocrinology, haepatology, cardiology, haematology, child abuse
and trauma. There will be three seminars on chronic kidney diseases, hepatitis
and tuberculosis and Aid in children.
Dr Jamal Raza will conduct three
different workshops: two for doctors on the topics of "Care of newborn in
delivery room" and "Disorders of sexual differentiation" and one for nurses on
the theme of "Challenges in paediatrics and role of nurses in the 21st century". Dawn
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