The Vice Chancellor Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Professor Dr Naushad Ahmed Shaikh has underlined the need for the establishment of maximum numbers of trauma centres along with highways and leading city roads in order to control the increasing number of fatal deaths.
The Vice Chancellor emphasised this while speaking at public health seminar organised by the Department of Community Medicine of the university in connection with the World Health Day here at Liaquat University Hospital City branch on Saturday. Highlighting the importance of trauma centre, the Vice Chancellor said trauma centre helps in reducing the number of deaths during the natural disasters and saving lives of the people is so important during such emergencies.
Professor Dr Naushad Ahmed recalled his tenure as Sindh Secretary Health adding that during his tenure, a trauma centre in Liaquat University Hospital was approved but despite passage of several years no work has so far been made in this direction.
Construction of trauma centres in Civil Hospital Karachi and DOW Health University Karachi has not started yet despite sanctioning since the year 2001, he added. The Vice Chancellor called upon the media to raise the issue of establishment of trauma centres as without well equipped trauma centre, saving lives could be very difficult during natural disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones and floods and men made disasters like blasts and suicidal attacks.
He informed that Liaquat University has been upgraded with increasing numbers of facilities for studies and research and the academic standard of the university could be gauged with other universities of the developed countries.
He asked the management concerned to launch emergency care and disaster management care for undergraduate and postgraduates at the university and called upon the university students to focus their attention for acquiring knowledge of emergency management during their MBBS course so that after graduation, they could not feel difficulty of dealing emergencies.
The Vice Chancellor congratulated the Faculty of Community and Public Health Sciences for organising seminar in connection with the World Health Day. The Dean Faculty of Community and Public Health Sciences Professor Rafique Ahmed Soomro while reading the message of the Director General of World Health Organisation (WHO) informed that in the year 2008, more than 321 disasters occurred in different parts of the world, of which more than 235816 peoples have lost their lives while 211 million others have been affected.
The Additional Medical Superintendent Liaquat University Hospital Dr Ghulam Mustafa Abbasi while speaking on the occasion informed that 36 operation theatres are available in both branches of the hospital in Hyderabad and Jamshoro and equipped with emergency surgery.
He informed that about four hundred doctors and the same number of paramedics are available in the hospital to meet emergencies during natural disasters. The Chairman Department of Community Medicines Dr Hussain Bux Kolachi in his welcome address highlighted the objectives of organising the public awareness seminar.