Syed Zahir Ali Shah Minister of Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has urged that medical professionals should be polite and patient friendly accordingly to their job description; he was talking to the course completion ceremony of MPH students as chief guest here at Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IPM&R) Hayatabad Peshawar. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hafizullah VC KMU, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zubair Principal KGMC, Dr, Fazal Mahmood Registrar KMU, Abdul Saddique Director Finance KMU, Prof. Dr. Shad Muhammad Director Academics KMU, KMU, Dr. Jawad Ahmad Dir IBMS, Dr. Tasleem Akhtar Consultant R&D KMU and renown health professionals of the province were also present at the occasion.
Syed Zahir Ali Shah while congratulating the students on their successful completion of two years MPH Course, has said that the new health managers have great responsibilities on their shoulders and we hoped that they will not only serve the ailing humanity with full zeal and zest but they would also became exemplary health managers for running the health institutions and organizations in better way.
He said that our clinicians are well qualified and they are symbol of quality in their relevant fields but unfortunately we are far behind in producing sufficient and quality health managers. He advised KMU administration to also look in to the so for neglected fields of nursing and paramedic sciences to cope with the deficiencies of health sector. While appreciating the KMU achievements, during the short span of time the health minister assured the KMU administr5ation that the provincial government would provide all possible support to KMU for materializing its new projects especially that of Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IBMS).
While highlighting the provincial govt. achievements in health sector Syed Zahir Ali Shah said that the present democratic govt. not only full fill the so many years awaiting demand of four tier service structure for doctors but the decades long old demand of service structures for paramedics and nursing were also approved by the present govt, he tern it a great achievement of the present provincial government.
Earlier, while talking to the ceremony Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hafizullah VC KMU welcomed the chief guest and said that KMU has set its priorities short after its inception as Service to humanity with a commitment for excellence in medical education and research, providing medical and allied health students with state of art knowledge, skills and attitude to deliver the highest standards of health care to the people.
He said that according to their policy guidelines KMU has decided that no new medical college will be established in near future in the public sector and major chunk of the KMU resources would be diverted to establish and strengthen the so for neglected areas of public health, nursing and physiotherapy. He explained that establishment of IPH&SS and IPM&R and launching of MPH and B.Sc Courses for nursing and physiotherapy are our great achievements.. He said that teaching and training in these fields will bear fruit in near future in shape of production of qualified and well trained professionals.
While highlighting the future plans of KMU VC KMU said that IBMS, PRIDE and RIHET are in the pipe line but we are glad to share with the august gathering that for IBMS a sight has been pointed out and the same project will become reality Inshallah in the near future. He also said that reforms are also under way in the medical curriculum at graduate level especially the ethical aspect of the medical curriculum will resolve with the inculcation of ethical subject in the medical curriculum which should be resulted in solving the patients care problems in the systematic way. Later on the chief guest awarded shields and certificates to the course completed students of IPH &SS.
