Eastern medicines are required to be streamlined at national level and Higher Education Commission would help in establishing an accredited body for the eastern medicine.
This was the crux of the international seminar recommendations which was held at Faisal, Masjid Campus of the university and was titled “Strengthening health care with Eastern medicine for growth and development of socio-economic environment”.
Addressing the seminar, HEC Chairman, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed called upon all the relevant stakeholders to get together at commission’s office and sort out a strategy to devise a commission’s endorsed council of eastern medicine, while he said that, for the degree awarding issue, eastern medicine representatives, varsities’ heads, HEC officials and Drug Regulatory Authority officials should soon sit and devise a roadmap. He directed the concerned official to hold a meeting in this regard as soon as possible. Dr. Mukhtar maintained that eastern medicine was close to the Islamic heritage of Tibb-e-nabvi (PBUH) and said that it was required to be stream lined within national machinery. He called upon the teaching fraternity to become role models for the society and students and put aside personal grudges. He said education is the sector in which we must invest more and more beacsue it will produce a human resource who would take the socitty to heights of progress and prosperity.
Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, Rector, IIUI told that the eastern medicine can play vital its role in prosperity of the nation. He emphasized upon linkage of academia and industry and said that faculty must help in bridging the gap and medicinal fraternity should come forward to hold research both on traditional and modern methods. The IIUI Rector said that the country would have to produce human resource who must be best entrepreneurs and added that this would help in breakthroughs in terms of research, advancements and progress. Dean Faculty of Basic and Applied sciences, Dr. Muhammad Arshad Zia said that Eastern Medicine education is need of hour to serve national health. He congratulated Dr. Muhammad Ibrar Shinwari and his team to focus on such an important issue of national concern. Renowned scientists, academia and scholars have delivered their scientific lectures in the seminar. Dr. Ibrar Shinwari said in his remarks that the seminar has become a forum for linkage between academia, Experts in Eastern Medicine and industry. A mentionable number of faculty members and students from International Islamic University, National University of Science and Technology, Quid-e-Azam University and PMAS-Arid Agricultural University attended the seminar.