Funds for College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
Punjab asked to expedite funds for facilitation of CPSP training courses
Lahore, Oct 4: Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal has asked the provincial government
to expedite the process of allocation of funds for facilitation of short
training courses/workshops of trainees and supervisors at various regional
centres of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) in the
province. He gave the direction to expedite the process of allocation of
funds during a briefing at College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP)
Lahore Centre on Saturday after having been informed that the funds were stopped
in the Finance Department despite the orders of Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz
Sharif at CPSP convocation last year. While giving a briefing about the
performance of CPSP, Prof Khalid Masood Gondal, Regional Director CPSP, demanded
the provincial government support CPSP in facilitation of educational workshops
for trainees and supervisors that spent an annual cost of Rs 233.183
million. It included a cost of Rs 205.065 million on short training
courses such as Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS) and other educational workshops for trainee doctors from CPSP's
regional centres of Lahore, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Multan, Rahimyar Khan and
Rawalpindi in Punjab besides a cost of Rs 28.118 million for educational
workshops for supervisors. Therefore, he urged the provincial government
to support and immediately release the funds to the CPSP for holding these
mandatory workshops for trainees and supervisors, which would help improve the
standard of healthcare delivery system in the province. He said that the
CPSP had trained 6,224 trainees and 1,468 trainers/supervisors through short
training courses during the last one year. He said that the CPSP, an autonomous
institution, had been bearing all academic and developmental expenditures
without increasing fees of trainee doctors since 2002 without the financial
support of the federal and provincial governments in the country. Call
to eliminate bonded labour: Punjab Assembly speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan has
reiterated the Punjab government's commitment to eliminate bonded labour from
the province, saying independence is the birth right of every man and no
religion, society and man has the right to imprison other people and force them
to work as bonded labourers. He was presiding over a meeting, which was
held here on Saturday titled "Role of Parliamentarians in the Eradication of
Bonded Labour from Pakistan." The Punjab assembly speaker expressed the
hope that all the members of the assembly, irrespective of the political divide,
would extend their full support and cooperation to the government in formulating
a comprehensive policy for curbing the vice of bonded and child labour from the
society. The news
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A-Level students sweep road to protest UHS discrimination
Lahore: A large number of non-FSc students who recently took the Medical College
Admission Test (MCAT) 2009 protested outside the University of Health Sciences
(UHS) on Saturday. The students swept the road outside the campus as a
symbolic protest against what they called the discriminatory attitude of the
UHS. The students chanted slogans against the UHS administration for
allegedly asking at least 40 questions from out of the syllabus and committing
other blunders during the MCAT. The protesters said they were Pakistanis and
their parents worked day and night to ensure better education for them, but the
UHS punished them for getting education of an international
standard. They said they would keep protesting
against the university until the government formed an independent committee to
assess the misconduct and compensate the students whose future was at stake. The
students asked why the university administration had removed the syllabus and
other details from its website. UHS spokesman Muhammad Atif said that the
administration had already done its best to satisfy these
students. He said the administration had reassessed the question papers to check
if any question was out of the syllabus. He said the experts who had designed
the paper had reconfirmed that there was no such question in the MCAT. He said
the syllabus was removed from the university's website due to a shortage of
space. He said the students should talk to the government instead of protesting
outside the UHS. Daily times
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"I appreciate the efforts of alevel students of Lahore for protesting and fighting for alevel students rights for getting admission. I would like to suggest that all alevel candidates lodge complaints to UHS within 15 days and vow that they vow that they would fight back till the end of this injstice. "
Name: Muhammad Masood
Email: mmmone@live.com
City, Country: Islamabad
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Youth must commit to national uplift
Lahore: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has urged the youth to commit themselves
to national development, social work and character building through constructive
activities. He was addressing in the meeting of the provincial Council of Punjab
Boys Scouts Association (PBSA) here at the Governor's House Saturday. The
Governor said scouting is a national movement, which is beyond political
interests. He said he would extend all possible help to spread the movement
across the province as Chief Scout Punjab. "I have a dream that Scout movement
should lead and inspire the youth in schools, colleges and universities," he
said. He said that scouts are the ambassadors of Pakistan and they should work
hard to carry the image of a liberal, democratic Pakistan across the frontiers
since it is an international movement. Talking about Pakistan, he said that
Pakistan has successfully traversed through testing times in the recent past
while countries without vision wilt under crises. He said that PPP government
has promoted politics of tolerance and reconciliation. He urged the scouts to be
the first flag bearers in the face of crises and lead the youth. F.P Report
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