Karachi: Vice Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences Professor Muhammad Saeed Quraishy has said that, when you support Medical Research, you are actually helping to build the future of Medicine in Pakistan. We are trying to attract young doctors towards research so that in the future Pakistani society can get benefit from it and address public health issues. Dow University encourages young physicians involved in medical research, because there are ample opportunities to gain benefit from ‘Vice Chancellors Initiative Funds’. As a result of research initiatives, Dow University has been listed in Times Higher Education World University Ranking for one of our Biotechnology research paper.
He shared these thoughts while addressing as a chief guest at the Third annual ENT Resident Summit organized in collaboration with the Pakistan Society of Otorhinolaryngology, which was held at Digital Library Hall, DIMC. Pro-Vice chancellor Prof. Kartar Dawani, Prof. Umer Farooq, Principal DIMC Dr. Zeba Haq, Prof. Zahid Azam, Prof. Salman Ahmed and Prof. Atif Hafeez Siddiqui along with Dr. Shuja Farrukh, Dr. Shaheen Malik and Professor Kashif Shafique were also presented at the summit. The young doctors were urged by Professor Muhammad Saeed Quraishy not to sit silent but to defend their research paper by speaking about it without hesitation. Remove the error and resubmit it so you can learn from the mistakes.
Addressing the summit, Chairman Summit Prof. Atif Hafeez Siddiqui said that the total share of global research in Pakistan is only 0.58 percent. In Pakistan, medical research hardly takes only 28 percent of the overall research across the country. As per the global research oriented ranking, America is ranking on first, United Kingdom is on second, while China is on third rank. Based on Muslim countries, Only Turkey and Iran are featured in the ranking as research oriented countries. Others Muslims countries not even listed 20 or 30 in the research ranking. He advised us to embrace innovative research concepts or ideas. Encouragement of those people should be fostered by providing enabling circumstances. If this has not occurred so far, then it should begin right away.
Young doctors presented their findings and research during the ENT-Summit. Dr. Soubia Akhter took first place in the summit for her research accomplished on the topic of “Outcomes of Elective Tracheostomy During ICU Stay; A Cross Sectional Survey from a Tertiary Care Centre” her research object was to report the outcomes in patients undergoing elective tracheostomy during ICU stay. Her research findings conclude that Patients with Stroke & Respiratory type 2 failure are at a higher risk of permanent tracheostomy while patients with any trauma and heart failure are more likely to get removed or decannulated with tracheostomy. Sidra Bano from Dow University took second place. Title of her paper was “Comparison between the Uses of Hypertonic Saline and Normal Saline in the Treatment of Chronic Rhinositis”. Dr. Sumera Sattar from Patel Hospital took third place by presenting her research paper on “Primary-Nasal Tuberculosis: Systematic Review” she concludes that Primary Nasal tuberculosis is a rare entity, often forgotten. So, Otorhinolaryngologist should consider it in their differential diagnosis especially with chronic nasal symptoms for early diagnosis and effective conservative management.
