A nine-members delegation of the Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, arrived here on Friday on a two-day visit of the University of Health Sciences.
The delegation headed by Vice Chancellor KMU Professor Dr Muhammad Daud Khan will observe the systems and functioning of various departments of University of Health Sciences (UHS) and pave the way for a closer collaboration between the two institutions in academics and research fields.
Vice chancellor UHS Professor Malik Hussain Mubbashar briefed the delegation on the history, systems and vision of the university. He said the core mission of the university mission was to bring a qualitative and quantitative revolution in medical education by strengthening basic medical sciences and promoting indigenous health research.
He said currently 50 institutions with more than 19000 students are affiliated with the UHS. Professor Mubbashar said the University of Health Sciences was a research intensive university whose ethos, from the beginning, had been to promote indigenous research.
"We cannot blindly apply western models and research to our people. West and Best, and East and Beast are not synonyms," he added. He said the university was currently pursuing 183 research projects, especially on diseases such as asthma, diabetics, TB, typhoid, infertility, cancer, consanguinity and developmental abnormalities.
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