Frontline COVID-19 workers among 113 specialists receive fellowship and resident ship during AKU ceremony.

KARACHI -- A total of 113 residents and fellows, many having played a key role in treating COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, graduated at Aga Khan University's 25th Medical Education ceremony.

According to an announcement here Sunday certificates were awarded to 92 residents and 21 fellows in areas relevant to the treatment of COVID-19 such as anaesthesiology and intensive care, emergency medicine, pulmonary medicine, pediatric infectious diseases and adult infectious diseases.

Around the world and in Pakistan, scores of physicians-in-training such as interns, residents and fellows have lost their lives while caring for and treating sick COVID-19 patients.

"Putting safety at the core patient care, we learnt how new communicable diseases are managed and what it is like to be at the forefront as a team," Dr. Waleed bin Ghaffar...