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ICRC donates skill development equipment to KMU

By Bureau report
February 22, 2019

PESHAWAR: Prof Dr Arshad Javaid, vice-chancellor Khyber Medical University (KMU), has said that nurses are the backbone of health delivery system, which is why developing their professional capacity is need of the hour.

He was speaking as chief guest at a ceremony wherein skill development equipment donated by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peshawar office, were distributed to KMU’s Institute of Nursing Sciences (INS).

Besides others, Zarthasha Khan, deputy head of ICRC Sub-Delegation Peshawar, Chiyuki Yoshida, health programme manager, Dr Sabahat Jamal Gillani Head of Secondary Healthcare, Charlotte Ife, teaching nurse specialist, Prof Dr Muhammad Salim Gandapur, Dr Muhammad Dildar, director KMU-INS, and faculty were also present on the occasion.

The vice-chancellor said the Nursing Development Project initiated by the ICRC in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is helping enhance the

basic life-saving skills of medical personnel through a robust system of training and learning and donation of skill development equipment worth Rs7.2 million is an appreciable step taken by ICRC.

Zarthasha Khan said that for the nurses, this is not just another project but it was an opportunity to get trained in advanced skills and grow in their professional capabilities.

She said that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the KMU and ICRC for strengthening of academic and skills services at under- and post-graduate levels and the present activity was part of that MoU.