Fresh MBBS graduates urged to serve humanity

Minister says young doctors facing huge workloads at hospitals

LAHORE: Around 98 men and women students were awarded medical degrees at the second convocation of Gujranwala Medical College (GMC) on Monday.

In his welcome address, GMC Principal Dr Aftab Mohsin said the Gujranwala Medical College had become the best teaching institute in the country. Speaking on the occasion, Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique said the basic purpose of mankind was to serve humanity.



Vice Chancellor UHS Dr Junaid Sarfraz Khan, Principal General Medical College, Dr Aftab Hassan, elected MNAs, MPAs, Members Board of Management GMC, MS DHQ Teaching Hospital, Dr Anwar Amman, faculty members, doctors, fresh graduates and their parents attended the event.



He said that doctors belonged to a sacred profession and provided treatment to ailing humans. “Pakistani doctors have professional abilities like the doctors of developed countries and their services were commendable,” he added.

Rafique said doctors were facing huge workloads at hospitals and satisfying every individual was a difficult task. The minister said he believed that no doctor intentionally commits negligence, but as a human being, mistakes are inevitable. He said medical teachers were a valuable national asset and huge trees under which young doctors were raised. He urged fresh graduates to work hard to lead the mission of their teachers.



The minister said that the government was working on health development to provide the best healthcare facilities to the people and setting up medical colleges in Sialkot, Gujranwala, Sahiwal and Gujrat was a reflection of these efforts.

While commenting on the demand of regularisation of employees of medical colleges, he said faculty should be appointed on a regular basis and he assured of pursuing the matter.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19^th, 2017.