The dream team: Renal transplant facility slated to open within a year in Hyderabad
LUMHS VC reveals plans at health symposium, says MoU has been signed with SIUT.
"Only 10 per cent of the applicants make it to medical colleges, so society has high hopes from you," Dr Adeeb Rizvi.
HYDERABAD:
The Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) plans to open a kidney transplant facility at its Jamshoro hospital within a year. The service will be offered in collaboration with the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT). The two signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday in order to team up for this.
LUMHS vice chancellor Dr Mashhoor Alam announced this while addressing an international symposium titled ‘Health in the 21st century - today’s vision, tomorrow’s reality’. SIUT’s Dr Adeeb Rizvi, Prof Dr Lama Wansa from Sri Lanka and Dr Abdul Majeed Chaudhry, president SAARC Doctors’ Organization, also spoke.
The VC also announced that LUMHS will also set up a prosthetic limb implant facility within the next six months. Dr Adeeb Rizvi told the audience that SIUT will train LUMHS doctors for three months before the launch. He said SIUT has not decided whether it wants to open its own centre or just help establish and run the LUMHS ones.
Rizvi, who is himself a LUMHS alumnus, urged the medical students to take their profession as a service to humanity and not for making money. “Only around 10 per cent of students who apply for admissions in medical universities get an offer,” he said. “The society has high hopes from you.”
Rizvi also recalled his student days at Liaquat Medical College and how the teachers there shaped his character. “What I am today is because of my teachers.” He specifically mentioned Prof Ali Muhammad Ansari, Prof Saleh Memon, Prof Waheed and Prof Ibrahim Ahmed.
The speakers also appreciated LUMHS’ latest initiative of introducing an online diploma in family healthcare for practicing doctors. A total of 127 students from different parts of Pakistan and abroad have been registered in the one-year course. Dr Kashif Ali, a general medical officer in the army, spoke through a video link and shared how he gained from the facility. Two other doctors, Dr Farooq Ahmed Khan from Swat and Dr Ghulam Sadiq from Saudi Arabia, also shared their views and urged the university’s administration to introduce online Master’s and PhD programmes.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 31st, 2013.
The Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) plans to open a kidney transplant facility at its Jamshoro hospital within a year. The service will be offered in collaboration with the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT). The two signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday in order to team up for this.
LUMHS vice chancellor Dr Mashhoor Alam announced this while addressing an international symposium titled ‘Health in the 21st century - today’s vision, tomorrow’s reality’. SIUT’s Dr Adeeb Rizvi, Prof Dr Lama Wansa from Sri Lanka and Dr Abdul Majeed Chaudhry, president SAARC Doctors’ Organization, also spoke.
The VC also announced that LUMHS will also set up a prosthetic limb implant facility within the next six months. Dr Adeeb Rizvi told the audience that SIUT will train LUMHS doctors for three months before the launch. He said SIUT has not decided whether it wants to open its own centre or just help establish and run the LUMHS ones.
Rizvi, who is himself a LUMHS alumnus, urged the medical students to take their profession as a service to humanity and not for making money. “Only around 10 per cent of students who apply for admissions in medical universities get an offer,” he said. “The society has high hopes from you.”
Rizvi also recalled his student days at Liaquat Medical College and how the teachers there shaped his character. “What I am today is because of my teachers.” He specifically mentioned Prof Ali Muhammad Ansari, Prof Saleh Memon, Prof Waheed and Prof Ibrahim Ahmed.
The speakers also appreciated LUMHS’ latest initiative of introducing an online diploma in family healthcare for practicing doctors. A total of 127 students from different parts of Pakistan and abroad have been registered in the one-year course. Dr Kashif Ali, a general medical officer in the army, spoke through a video link and shared how he gained from the facility. Two other doctors, Dr Farooq Ahmed Khan from Swat and Dr Ghulam Sadiq from Saudi Arabia, also shared their views and urged the university’s administration to introduce online Master’s and PhD programmes.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 31st, 2013.