Country’s first child health varsity project launched

Scheme includes colleges for specialists, allied health professionals

LAHORE:

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi laid the foundation stone of the country’s first University of Child Health Sciences on Saturday.

He was informed on the occasion that the university would be established at a cost of Rs9.18 billion, including a radiotherapy centre for children costing Rs2 billion.

Radiotherapy centres for children will also be established in other divisions.

The chief minister said it would be a modern medical university. Mother and child healthcare hospitals are under construction in several cities, including Mianwali.

A college of paediatrics will be opened in the university and special training will be imparted to the surgeons and medical specialists with regard to treatment of children. Colleges for training allied health professionals and nurses will also be set up. A mother and child unit for treatment and care of infants and an institute and research centre of genetics would also be part of the university.

An advance technology and telehealth centre equipped with medical genomics and artificial intelligence facilities will also be established.

In order to prevent the risk of any complication during pregnancy, a fetal, maternal and prenatal health centre will be established.

The chief minister said revolutionary changes were being made in the health technology across the globe.

The university will be built by the Infrastructure Development Authority of Punjab.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said during a meeting with Special Assistant for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Syed Rafaqat Ali Gilani that Mphil and PhD classes were being started in the Seerat Academy. A hostel for research scholars and a Quran Museum will also be built in the institution.

Human rights

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi stated in his message on the International Human Rights Day that the occasion gave a lesson and resolve to pre-empt injustice and maltreatment in the society.

Terrorism, oppression and violence are the major factors which give rise to infringement of human rights. Unjust economic structure causing social inequality deeply affects human rights and depriving anyone of human rights equates to causing insult to humanity, he said.

The chief minister said peace could only prevail when human rights were accorded due respect in the society.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 11^th, 2022.