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DUHS gets 14 new institutions: VC
Karachi, Feb 01, 2008: Fourteen academic and research institutes have been set
up at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), including the Dow College of
Pharmacy, a research lab and an artificial limb center.
DUHS Vice
Chancellor Prof. Masood Hameed said this on Thursday while addressing the
inaugural ceremony of the Masters in Health Management (MHM) program at the
Institute of Health Management (IHM), DUHS. The IHM is offering admissions for
the first time this year in three categories of health management:
pharmaceutical management, hospital administration and healthcare service
management. He noted that the establishment of the IHM was another milestone in
DUHS's history.
The curriculum for a proposed MBA program will be
developed through consultations with pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and
healthcare services as well as all HEC and DUHS faculty. This curriculum would
be revised every three years and updated according to local and global changes.
Plans include extensive training for managers, diploma courses for sales
representatives, courses for the health professionals of university hospitals
and research and development through health management publications.
The
other speakers were Dr Hanif and Dr Asima Zahid. ppi
DUHS to start FM radio service
The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) will start an FM
radio station soon to create awareness about tuberculosis, leprosy and other
infectious diseases, said Vice Chancellor, DUHS, Professor Masood
Hameed.
He said this while addressing a seminar on infectious diseases to
mark the World Leprosy Day on Thursday. Hameed said that about half of the
population of this country suffers from various kinds of diseases. He explained
that immunisation is very costly here because vaccines need to be imported.
Hameed noted that health education is a must to raise awareness about
tuberculosis, leprosy and other infectious diseases, adding that the media can
play a vital role in this regard. The founder, Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre
(MALC), Madam Ruth Fao said that the treatment of leprosy is an expensive and
long process, adding if the disease is diagnosed in early stages then it will
leave less harmful effects on human body and can be treated easily.
The
Chairman, Community Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Professor
Gregory Pappas mentioned that in Pakistan 20 per cent patients of Aids are from
Karachi while just 0.2 to 12 per cent from other cities. In the year 2006 there
were 481 cases of leprosy in Pakistan, out of these 293 were from Sindh. He said
that 900 leprosy cases are detected in the past three years, adding most of them
are of people belonging to low income areas. Prof. Javed Khan from AKUH informed
that TB mostly affects people of age group 15 to 54. He said that 98 per cent
deaths occurring from TB in the world belong to developing countries.
Due
to lack of better equipped laboratories, experts and good quality medicines, it
is difficult to control infectious diseases.
Principal, Dow Medical
College (DMC) Prof. Salahuddin Afsar said that Dow University would conduct
training programmes for faculty, post-graduates and medical students every
month, this year. The News
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