Medical education: ‘Collaboration will ensure better services'

Health Secretary Ijaz Munir says medicine education was top priority of govt.

LAHORE: Health Secretary Ijaz Munir on Saturday said medicine education was a top priority of the government. He said all stakeholders should work together to improve medical services.

He was presiding over a meeting of principals of public sector medical colleges at the Civil Secretariat.

Matters regarding promotion of medical education and administrative issues of teaching hospitals were discussed.

Munir said he would consultations with senior medical educationists would be held and their proposals be considered for improvement of the health sector.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2014.