23 March 2004	Tuesday	01 Safar 1425

KARACHI, March 22: The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) will set up a liver unit and an operation theatre in memory of the late Prof Sarwar Jehan Zuberi.

This was announced by Prof S. Hameed at a condolence meeting at the DUHS, where Prof Tipu Sultan, Dr Shershah Syed, Dr S. Inkesar Ali, Dr Shafiq-ur-Rehman and Dr Saleem Ilyas also spoke.

Prof Hameed said Dr Sarwar Zuberi was a leading personality in the Pakistani medical community. She initiated medical research and taught others how to conduct it. She further contributed to it by editing the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, which put Pakistan on the world medical map.

He said a passed-out batch of the Dow Medical College would build an operation theatre complex which would have six operation theatres. One of them would be named after Prof Sarwar Zuberi.

Prof Tipu Sultan, dean of medicine and head of the anaesthesia department of the DMC, said Dr Zuberi was devoted to her profession. He said the government should take steps to control common diseases such as malaria.

Dr Shershah Syed, secretary-general of the PMA, said it was paradoxical that seminars on HIV/AIDS were held as funding was available but the government was totally indifferent to preventable diseases.

He said Dr Zuberi was honest and uncompromising, and it was unethical to spend tens of millions of rupees on unnecessary projects when the enforcement of primary healthcare was needed.

DEATH CONDOLED: Members of the Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology and G.I. Endoscopy (PSG) have condoled the death of their ex-president Prof Sarwar Zuberi. At a meeting in its society office on Monday, the PSG members mourned her death. - PPI