Daily Times

KARACHI: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) and DHA City Karachi (DCK) joined hands to establish a new campus of DUHS at DCK

In this connection, a ground-breaking ceremony for establishing a state-of-the-art liver transplant centre was inaugurated on Thursday by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad and Commander 5 Corps Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar.

Appreciating the courageous decision of Dow University to establish its new campus at DCK in collaboration with Defence Housing Authority (DHA), he said the new health facility will improve the quality of medical education and healthcare services in the province.

Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar commended the decision of DUHS to establish its campus in DCK that would be a harbinger of the beginning of a new era of medical progress and advancement in the country. He said the new DUHS campus would be instrumental in extending the qualitative healthcare and medical services outreach to the masses.

Speaking on the occasion, Dow University Vice Chancellor Dr Masood Hameed Khan said that the university will establish its campus spread over 10 acres of land under a four staged development programme starting with setting up of a dispensary and an ambulance service followed by a medical centre next year to a secondary care hospital and finally culminating into establishment of a full-fledged medical college linked to a fully functional teaching hospital.

DHA Administrator Brig Zubair Ahmed said that DCK healthcare district will make it a nucleus for provision of world class healthcare and medical facilities to people.