UVAS now has its official website

Governor Punjab Sardar Latif Khosa inaugurates official website of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

LAHORE: Governor Punjab Sardar Latif Khosa on Thursday inaugurated the official website of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) and academic block of the university’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The governor also addressed the students in the university conference hall and later took a tour of the UVAS Diagnostic Laboratory, WTO-Quality Operation Laboratory, Pet Centre, Snakeery the snake house, Postmortem Hall, and the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology building.

Khosa appreciated the university’s contributions to research and hoped it would continue to progress in the future.

He said that he also hoped to see UVAS being taken to other cities in the Punjab.

The Punjab governor said he would approve funds for the university whenever required. “Researches play one of the most important roles in educational development. For that, I believe, they need to be provided a platform to create new means of expansion and explore the undiscovered,” he said.

He urged the students to set up pharmaceutical firms. “Student should explore the possibility of indigenous manufacturing of medicines, instead of importing costly medicines from multinational firms. This will definitely decrease the import of medicines.”

Dr Muhammad Nawaz, the UVAS vice chancellor, said that Pakistan could save $6 billion by manufacturing biotechnology products locally, instead of importing products like poultry vaccine from abroad.

He explained how Pakistan could also save a huge amount of money and get benefits through development of technology. “Twenty-one million low milk producing cattle and buffaloes should be slaughtered to export meat and earn substitution foreign exchange. 4.2 million tons of meat will be available if low potential animals are replaced with best genetic animals,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 25^th, 2011.