KARACHI, Feb 2: Lyari General Hospital (LGH) will be given its due status of being a teaching hospital, and for this purpose it will be provided all necessary facilities.

This was stated here by the Vice Chancellor of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Professor Masood Hameed Khan, while speaking at a seminar on continous medical education programme (CME) at the LGH on Wednesday morning.

The Professor said that the LGH would be upgraded in every respect and all out efforts would be made to boost its image as a teaching hospital, assuring that the DUHS would provide all possible help.

He announced that an internet library will be established in the hospital with the collaboration of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) to improve its academic atmosphere and facilitate doctors in research works.

The DUHS vice-chancellor also announced that most post-graduate students would be posted in the hospital who would be given a monthly honorarium of Rs6000, hoping that they would serve the poor community with dedication.

He also promised that teaching posts lying vacant at the hospital would be filled very soon. As far as security problem is concerned, the VC said the matter would be taken up with higher authorities, hoping that it would be resolved.

It was the first visit of Mr Khan to the LGH which was affiliated with the DUHS as a teaching hospital, but it was never treated according to its status. Earlier, Secretary Health Professor Noshad paid a visit to the hospital and he was briefed about perennial problems the hospital faced with when he was the medical superintendent.

Earlier, CME Coordinator Professor M Zaman Sheikh in his welcome address highlighted the objectives of the CME programme, saying that the programme was being launched to create an academic atmosphere in the hospital and help doctors improve professional skills.

Prof Zaman also highlighted potable water shortage and security problems which needed immediate solution. LGH Medical Superintendent Prof Akbar Hyder Soomro stressed the need for implementing a steady programme which could bring an overall improvement in the academic and administrative atmosphere of the hospital.

He said all out efforts would be made to upgrade the existing library and laboratory and necessary steps would be taken for providing more facilities as he firmly believed that without availability of basic faculty facilities, no hospital could function.

In the first session of the CME programme, Dr Nabiha Faisal of the LGH medical ward presented a rare and interesting case of a male patient with cancer of liver who developed very low blood sugar. According to her, this is the seventh reported case in the world literature.