Sindh’s first public health lab set up at DUHS

Bioequivalence centre established to measure drugs' efficacy

KARACHI:

Sindh Health Minister Azra Fazl Pechuho inaugurated Sindh's first public health laboratory and a recently established bioequivalence study centre at the Dow University of Health Sciences' (DUHS') Ojha campus on Wednesday.

Speaking on the occasion, the health minister assured that the Sindh government would continue to support improvements in the health sector so that better facilities could be provided to citizens.

Moreover, the minister was informed that the first provincial public health laboratory, jointly set up by the DUHS and the National Institute of Health, would help control epidemics across the province.

In the past few years, XDR typhoid, Chikungunya, dengue and other contagious diseases have been spreading in different districts of the province and the laboratory will contribute to controlling them, providing services to citizens for free, Pechuho was briefed.

Besides, DUHS vice-chancellor Muhammad Saeed Quraishy said the new bio-equivalence was the only such facility in the country at par with international standards that had a fully equipped hospital.

The centre will be used for analysing the concentration of medicine in a patient's blood, in order to determine the efficacy of the drug.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2021.