Daily Times

ABBOTTABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif paid a visit to the Army Medical Centre (AMC) in Abbottabad on Friday and lauded the sacrifices made by doctors and the paramedical staff in battles against terrorism.

While interacting with the officials of Army Medical Corps, the army chief appreciated their contributions and sacrifices in improving the health care standards in peace and war especially in fight against terrorism.

He lauded the efforts of AMC in up gradation of hospitals, especially the specialised treatment including, liver transplant unit, hands and upper limbs surgery centre. Their training establishments like National University Medical Sciences and paramedics training institutes are serving our requirements of developing human resource and skill sets, Sharif remarked.

The army chief further emphasised that the AMC had always answered the call of duty during national calamities – both inland and abroad – and disaster management.

Raheel Sharif further said that medical science was progressing at a rapid pace and it was imperative for doctors to keep themselves abreast to the latest development. Later, he pinned the badges of rank on the shoulders of Lieutenant General Asif Mumtaz Sukhera to formally install him Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps.