The first Cochrane workshop in Pakistan was organised by the Aga Khan University and the South Asian Cochrane Network (SACN). This pertaining to capacity development related to improving the use of scientific evidence in the healthcare decision-making, informed Dr Anita Zaidi, the chief organiser of the workshop.
She pointed out that the Cochrane Collaboration is an international, non-profit organisation that is working to ensure that up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of various medical therapies readily available world-wide.
A key goal of the Cochrane Collaboration is to improve healthcare practices in developing countries by synthesising available research and providing summaries of the effects of different healthcare interventions for clinical professionals as well as the general population.
Dr Zaidi said that this information is easily available on their website, www.cochrane.org for anyone to look up.
Speaking on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the three-day workshop, Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta, Chairman of Paediatrics at the Aga Khan University, discussed the importance of using evidence-based medicine and research-based knowledge in clinical practice and public health. Dr Prathap Tharyan, visiting professor from Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, and head of the South Asian Cochrane Network (SACN) highlighted the role of the SACN in promoting research knowledge-based health care in South Asian countries and thanked the Aga Khan University for organising the first workshop in Pakistan,
Dr Anita Zaidi, said that participants from many leading healthcare institutions of Pakistan had benefited from the workshop, including College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan Medical Research Council, National Institute of Child Health, Civil Hospital Karachi, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, and Baqai University.
Dr Muhammad Khurshid, Dean of the AKU Medical College, lauded the efforts of the organisers and the Cochrane Collaboration and said that AKU will continue to hold many more of these training workshops in the future.
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