ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has underscored the need for introducing uniform syllabi for standardising medical education in the country, besides urging medical institutions to produce more nursing and paramedical staff to cater to the patients’ health needs.
Presiding over the 5th meeting of the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU) Senate at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad, the president emphasised the need for developing partnerships with foreign universities to get access to foreign courses and educational content through online education.
SZABMU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Tanwir Khaliq, members of the Senate and faculty attended the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, he said establishing linkages with foreign universities was the fastest way to improve the quality of education in the country.
Mr Alvi also called for focusing on the prevention of diseases as it was far easier and cheaper as compared to curative treatment and would also help reduce the disease burden on the country’s health infrastructure.
He said SZABMU should be a role model for others in the medical sector, adding that medical institutions should also focus on inculcating the spirit of serving humanity among their graduates.
SZABMU VC briefed the meeting about the initiatives taken by the university for promoting medical education.
Prof Dr Rizwan Taj informed the meeting that measures were being taken to increase the number of nurses in the country. The meeting endorsed the minutes of the 4th Senate meeting held on 18th March, 2022. It also approved the appointment of two Deans, Prof Dr Rana Imran Sikandar and Prof Dr Moosa Khan, as members of the syndicate under the SZABMU Act 2013.