Soomro praises Aga Khan Varsity services
KARACHI (APP) – Chairman Senate Mohammedmian Soomro has praised the Aga Khan University Hospital for its contribution towards qualitative health sciences education, teaching education, research and in the delivery of health care.
“This familiar landmark is no longer the exclusive preserve of Karachi or of Pakistan as other countries are also now benefiting from AKU, a national university with international outreach”.
He was speaking as chief guest at the 49th Convocation of the Aga Khan University here Saturday.
Besides him, Chancellor AKU, Prince Karim Aga Khan and President Aga Khan University, Firoz Rasul, also adddressed the convocation at which 273 passing out students were conferred degrees and diplomas.
These included six in Master Science in Nursing, 63 Bachelor of Science in Nursing and 775 Diploma in General Nursing, 7 Master in Epifdemiology and Biostatistics, 8 Master in Health Policy and Management and 81 in MBBS besides 33 Master in Education.
Soomro emphasised that Human resource development needs to be continuously focussed upon with fast advancements taking place in all the relevant fields and to bring in talent of very high standards to compete with global challenges.
He called for fast communication, clear thoughts, dedication, hard work and commitment at AKU for improving the quality of life.
He told the passing out students that the road ahead would be full of challenges for them.
Mohammedmian Soomro said that when Aga Khan envisaged the setting up of this institution, everybody had the expectation of having an institution with highest standard of learning and these expectations were fully met with which is reflective from global recognition which AKU had and which only few had such distinctions.
Meanwhile, speaking at an international seminar on “Deceased Organ Donation- Problems and Prospects,” organised by Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Soomro said that he said his colleagues at the parliament were also quite supportive of the “Cadaver Organ Donation Bill” .
Chairman Senate highlighted the importance of research and said it is all the more important in healthcare, medicare, health sciences and hoped that Aga Khan University will fulfil this need.
He said Pakistan looks forward to the university’s further growth and expansion.
Earlier in his address, Prince Karim Aga Khan emphasised the need for developing an effective knowledge society and said that quest for a better life, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike, must lead inevitably to such society which is developing in our time.
He said the great and central question facing the Ummah today is how it will relate to the Knowledge Society of tomorrow.
“One answer which can be shared across the whole of the Ummah is that we must become full and even leading participants in the Knowledge Society of 21sy Century”, Aga Khan said and added that will mean embracing the values of collaboration and coordination, openness and partnership, choice and diversity – which will under-gird the Knowledge Society, learning constantly to review and revise and renew what we thing, we know.
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