Battling child mortality: Team of academics visit LUMHS

Delegation visits LUMHS to observe management of childhood illnesses for teaching students.

HYDERABAD:

A joint delegation of 29 academics from different medical universities and colleges of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa along with representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) visited the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Jamshoro on Tuesday.

The visit was arranged by WHO in collaboration with the Maternal, Neonate and Child Health Programme of the Sindh government to observe the pre-service integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness which has been adopted by LUMHS for teaching undergraduate students.

While talking to the delegation, the dean of medicine and allied sciences Prof. Salma Shaikh, said that nearly 11 million children die every year before reaching their fifth birthday. In response to this challenge, WHO and UNICEF developed an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in the early 1990s to reduce child mortality and morbidity in developing countries.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 28^th, 2013.