Ground-breaking ceremony: DUHS campus to be set up in DHA City

KARACHI: An agreement to establish a new campus of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) and a liver transplant centre inside DHA City Karachi was signed on Thursday. DUHS vice-chancellor Dr Masood Hameed Khan said that the university will establish the campus on 10 acres under a four-staged development programme. This includes setting up a dispensary and an ambulance service, followed by establishing a medical centre next year, a secondary-care hospital and the foundation of a medical college and teaching hospital. Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and Corps Commander Lt-Gen Naveed Mukhtar were the chief guests of the ceremony. DHA administrator Brig Zubair Ahmed said that DCK healthcare district will have different campuses, leading hospitals and medical enterprises.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 15^th, 2016.