KARACHI, Dec 9: Faculty and other facilities have bee strengthened further at different departments of the Karachi Medical and Dental College, to the satisfaction of health education bodies, a press release said.

According to the release issued by Prof Tahir Hussain, Head of the college’s Medicine department, the College of Physician and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) has renewed accreditation of department of Medicines and allied specialties of the Abbasi Hospital, the teaching hospital attached with the college. The department continued to be fully recognized to train postgraduates for the CPSP Fellowship diploma, while the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council had earlier approved its undergraduate teaching programme, it stated.

The Medicine department had now two professors and three associate professors, in addition to assistant professors and senior registrars. With the joining of an assistant professor of Medicine, with a special interest in renal diseases, the hemodialysis facilities were being upgraded and a special clinic for kidney patients was also being established, the press release added.

The department of Dermatology had been granted permission by CPSP to train postgraduates for the MCPS diploma, while the department of Psychiatry had been strengthened by the induction of an assistant professor, following which the department had sought permission of the CPSP to start a training programme, leading to the MCPS and FCPS in Psychiatry, the press release said.