KARACHI: The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) had deducted 50% of faculty members’ salaries and others due to the ongoing financial crises. The DUHS administration has deducted the salaries of professors, associate professors, assistant professors, resident medical officers, medical officers, and others by 50%. The university’s management has also been unable to pay salaries…

KARACHI: The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) has suspended three employees until further notice, including the girls’ hostel’s chief warden. Spokesperson, DUHS, said, on the recommendations of the inquiry committee formed by the Vice-Chancellor, DUHS, Prof Muhammad Saeed Quraishy, to probe the girls’ hostel incident, three employees of the university have been suspended including…

KARACHI: The Vice-Chancellor of the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Prof Mohammed Saeed Quraishy, has constituted an inquiry committee to investigate the girls’ hostel video issue, where girls were mishandled. The committee, headed by Prof Kartar Dawani, Pro VC, DUHS, has started the work. The committee has been assigned to report and fix the…

KARACHI: The Ziauddin University signed an MoU with Sehat Kahani, one of the fastest-growing health tech companies in Pakistan, to launch virtual telemedicine courses for doctors. The Ziauddin University, in collaboration with Sehat Kahani, aims to launch a six-month-long online course where doctors will be trained on family medicine modules along with telemedicine and other…

KARACHI: A new grant that seeks to spur vital global research into infectious diseases and pandemics has been awarded to the University of Washington (UW) and its partners, including the Aga Khan University, by the US National Institutes of Health’s Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, CREID. The US $8.75 million grant spread over…

KARACHI: The Vice-Chancellor of the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Prof Muhammad Saeed Qureshi, in a recent address, lauded the Government of Sindh for its support to the DUHS in the treatment of coronavirus patients in the region. For this purpose, the Sindh Government handed over a hospital at Nipa Chorangi to us as…

KARACHI: The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases has achieved another milestone by performing the first “Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair” (TEVAR) on a 30-year-old man successfully. A spokesperson of the NICVD noted that after a motorcycle accident, the patient was taken to the SMBB Trauma Centre Karachi, where he was told that he suffered a major…

KARACHI: The capacity for corona testing per day of the Dow University of Health Science is 1000. All test samples are conducted free of cost, the costs of which are covered by the Government of Sindh. A spokesperson of the Dow University of Health Sciences noted that the DUHS Ojha Campus provides 250 corona test…