CPSP accredits Lady Reading Hospital for training in critical medicines.

PESHAWAR -- The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) accredited Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar for postgraduate training in critical medicines on the occasion of its convocation here on Sunday.

'LRH is the only institute in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that offers training in emergency medicines with 27 fellows. We need more specialists in vital departments of emergency and critical medicines to serve the patients effectively,' CPSP president Prof Shoaib Shafi told participants of the 55th convocation.

He said that the province's oldest hospital became the first one to start fellowship in critical medicines with the help of supervisors, who had quit their lucrative jobs abroad to develop new specialty.

Prof Shoaib said that CPSP, headquartered in Karachi, was established in 1962, and had continuously been striving to achieve excellence in postgraduate medical education through developing and maintaining academic standards. It has 13 regional centres in Pakistan and six abroad, including one each in Birmingham, Nepal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Singapore and Bangladesh.

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'Over the years, it has made tremendous efforts to improve the quality of training of its fellowship programmes. It currently offers 73 fellowship and 22 membership programmes,' he said.

The senior vice-president of the college, Prof Khalid Masood Gondal, said that they were trying their best to enhance specialised medical services in all disciplines throughout the country. He added that all their programmes were in line with standards of World Health Organisation and in collaboration with premier medical institutions in UK, Malaysia and other countries.

'In Pakistan, there are 276 accredited intuitions with 30,000 doctors getting training under 4,000 supervisors, including 17 institutions, 500 supervisors and 4,300 trainees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,' he said. He added that CPSP produced high-trained specialists, who worked in the country and abroad.

Prof Mohammad Daud Khan, former vice-chancellor of Khyber Medical University (KMU), said that CPSP had...