Minister praises doctors for working despite strike call

LAHORE

Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Kh Salman Rafique has appreciated the doctor community, the vice-chancellors and principals of medical universities/colleges and medical superintendents of teaching hospitals for smooth working of outdoors departments of the hospitals and providing treatment facilities to the thousands of patients.

He said the doctor community had upheld the dignity and honour of the medical profession by rejecting the strike call from a handful of elements.

He expressed these views while addressing a meeting of VC of medical universities, principals of medical colleges and medical superintendents of teaching hospitals/specialised institutions at Civil Secretariat, according to a handout issued here on Tuesday.

The principals of medical colleges of other cities participated in the meeting through video link. Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah was also present  at the meeting.

The minister said that it was praiseworthy that the young doctors, teaching faculty and consultants performed their duties in outdoor departments without taking care of the threatening and unlawful attitude of a few miscreants.

The SH&ME secretary said the VCs and and principals of medical universities and colleges were fully empowered and had a free hand from the department to run their institutions in a befitting manner. He said the government and the department would provide full support to the administration of the medical institutions/hospitals for maintaining law and order in their institutions. He said that whatever disciplinary action under the law would be taken by the administration or disciplinary committees against the miscreants, the department would fully endorse it.

Najam Ahmed Shah made it clear that no hindrance would be tolerated in the provision of medical facilities to the patients.

BDS result: University of Health Sciences (UHS) announced the result of the third professional BDS annual examination 2016 on Tuesday.

According to a press release issued here, 655 candidates from 12 affiliated dental colleges had appeared in the exam and 526 of them passed and 125 failed the exam. The pass percentage remained 80.80.

Faiza Zaka, daughter of Zaka Ullah, of Dental Section, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, got first position by securing 761/900 marks.

Hafiz Muhammad Abdullah, son of Muhammad Akbar Rasheed, of de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore, got second position by obtaining 752/900 marks. Third position was shared by Mariah Shafique, D/o Muhammad Shafique, of de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore and Muhammad Ammar, S/o Iftikhar Hussain, of FMH, College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, who scored 748/900 marks. Supplementary exam will commence on January 27, 2017.

workshop: A five-day workshop “Data Analytical Model Building and Proposal Project Development” began at the University of Veterinary and Animals Sciences here on Tuesday.

UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha chaired the inaugural session of the workshop organised by the university’s Department of Statistics and Computer Sciences in collaboration with Jackson State University and Higher Education Commission (HEC).

Prof Dr Hafiz Anwar Ahmad from Jackson State University, the United States, was the resource person of the workshop who said the workshop was aimed to provide intensive training in experimental designs, data collection and analysis methodologies, statistical software training, interpretation of results, manuscript development and grant writing.