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Liver institute replacing SMC hostel
Karachi, Feb 14, 2008: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan, who is also the
chancellor of public sector universities in the province, has asked the
varsities to focus on public welfare and come up with viable development and
research works.
Lack of resources used to be a major problem faced by
higher education institutions in public sector, but now the situation had
changed with an increase of the education budget from 0.2 per cent of the Gross
Domestic Product to two per cent of the GDP, he said while speaking at the
foundation laying ceremony of the National Institute of Liver and
Gastrointestinal Diseases held at the Sindh Medical College campus of the Dow
University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Wednesday.
He said that
educational institutes in the province were being encouraged to initiate
research projects for public welfare and expressed the hope that they would come
up with viable plans for the betterment of their living standard. He was happy
that the institute would be made functional within a year. In addition to the
services that it would offer to patients, he said, the institute would impart
educate students and doctors on liver and gastrointestinal diseases.
Dr
Ibad said that the DUHS had made substantial progress since its inception in the
year 2003 under a charter granted by the government of Sindh and expressed the
hope that it would become one of the best medical varsities in the world. He
announced a grant of Rs100 million for the construction and working of the new
institute, which is being established at the site of Shah Latif Boys Hostel for
SMC students, adjacent to the National Institute of Child Health. The hostel was
vacated about six months back.
On the occasion, the governor also
inaugurated Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences, a dental
hospital set up in a 150-year-old building recently renovated to accommodate the
institute.
DUHS vice-chancellor Prof Masood Hameed Khan, who had got a
four-year extension in his tenure as the VC, said the university that had three
constituent medical institutes earlier, had 13 medical colleges and institutes
at present. He said that the university had been focusing on all possible health
education, right from medical education to community health care.
He said
that on the project's completion, the institute would not only offer screening,
counselling, early diagnosis and cost-effective treatment facilities to patients
but also have preventive strategies, including immunisation and surveillance
services.
Prof Khan mentioned that it was the first dental institute in
the country that offered Masters in Dental Surgery education in all the basic
dental science disciplines, in addition to conducting the BDS and diploma
courses.
Among others, the vice-chancellor of the Liaquat University of
Medical and Health Sciences, Prof Naushad Sheikh, DMC Principal Prof Salahuddin
Afsar, Sindh Medical College Principal Prof Tariq Sharafatullah, and senior
faculty members of the DUHS were present on the occasion.
University of Sindh deadline extended
Hyderabad: The University of Sindh here on Monday has extended
last date up to Feb 23, for payment of admissions fees to higher
classes.
Director of admissions announced that last date for payment of
admission fee to MSc Criminology had been extended to Feb 23. Dawn
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