RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) will provide training for capacity building of 58,496 health professionals including consultants, doctors, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists currently working in 25 district headquarters (DHQs) and 15 tehsil headquarters (THQ) hospitals of the province.

The training, which will start from March 06, is one of the requirements of Minimum Service Delivery Standards (MSDS) set by the government. It is the initiative of Project Management Unit of Punjab Primary & Secondary Healthcare Department.

In this training, a total of 25 advance courses will be offered to 5158 consultants, 18,224 doctors, 26,293 nurses, 8613 paramedics and 210 pharmacists.

The UHS acting vice-chancellor and Coordinator of the training programme, Prof Dr Junaid Sarfraz Khan said that UHS would play its role in the efforts for improvement of health service delivery system across the Punjab in line with the vision of the Chief Minister. “It is an honour for us to be tasked with the assignment of training of health staff all over the Punjab”, he said.

Prof Junaid further said that qualified professionals and faculty would facilitate the training. He added that the UHS has the capacity to accomplish this task as it facilitated more than 1500 continued professional development activities for health professionals and the faculty last year.