LAHORE: College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan’s advance life support obstetrics director Prof Muhammad Tayyab has said that one woman dies of childbirth complications in every 37 minutes in the country.

Addressing a ceremony organised on the successful completion of 10 years of advance life support programmes at CPSP regional office on Tuesday, he said the college introduced courses to reduce the death rate during childbirth.

CPSP Director General International Relations Prof Khalid Masood Gondal, Prof Ghulam Mustafa Arrain, Prof Noreen Akmal, and Prof Nudrat Suhail were present on the occasion.

Prof Duncan Edches, Professor of Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) also attended the ceremony as chief guest.

Addressing the ceremony, Prof Gondal said from 2007 to 2017, the college organised 168 advance trauma life support (ATLS) courses in which 2,612 doctors were trained following international standards.

Published in Dawn, April 25th, 2018