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Health knowledge made personal
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Owners of private medical and dental colleges in Pakistan are running their institutions without any law, principles, rules, regulations and ethics.
They have established their own rules and regulations (sharing monetary benefits with their professional regulatory authorities like Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC)
They have their own ethics (based on so called officially allowed schemes like self finance scheme, foreign seats, Pakistan health/medical foundation scheme, welfare trust scheme etc, etc)
You personally can visit and observe deficiencies in their infrastructure, teaching faculty, teaching hospitals attached with Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry Karachi, Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences for girls Karachi, International Medical College Abbottabad, Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry Karachi, University Medical College Faisalabad, Fatima Jinnah Dental College Karachi, Isra Medical University Hyderabad, Independent Medical College Faisalabad, Jinnah Medical College Peshawar, Multan Medical College Multan, University Medical College Lahore, Sharif City Medical College Lahore, Ziaudin Medical University Karachi, Baqai Medical University Karachi, Lahore Medical College Lahore, Frontier Medical College Abbottabad, Gandhara University Peshawar, Central Park Medical and Dental College Lahore, Altamash College of Dentistry Karachi.
See, look, observe and perceive dramatization of owners of these medical and dental institutions.
Their folk, famous but fake SLANG is that “we have established and we are running these institutions on ‘no profit no loss’ BASIS”, but their virtual goal is to generate money (nothing else).
They are not alone to cheat parents of students getting admission in MBBS and BDS courses, but higher authorities of health department, government of Pakistan, PM&DC, Vice Chancellors of universities with which they are affiliated are their hand shakers. They all are in other words SHARE-HOLDERS
Owners of these institutions and officers concerned with PM&DC (concerned regulatory authority) are usually attached with same profession (MEDICAL PROFESSION), so both parties are traditionally (so called ethically) are responsible to cooperate with each other. The only victimized party is students and their parents.
On the time of PMDC official visit these institutes hire teaching faculty on very attractive salary package, share equipments, technically skill paramedical staff, required monetary funds with each other and after the PMDC visit, salary of teaching faculty is reduced remarkably or harassed them so that they leave medical college and join another institute, faculty hired from public sector leave that private institution and rejoin their own public sector institution from which they came (had got leave without pay) due to attractive salary package of private institutions. Equipment, skilled paramedical staff and monetary fund are sent back to concerned parties. In this case academic study, professional training of MBBS and BDS students is surely suffered/compromised.
Some of the private medical/dental colleges have following deficiencies:
1) Their senior faculty {Professor, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors) are non-medical persons (having PhD degree but no medical basic degree (MBBS) at all. Salary of these non-medical teachers is much less than medical persons.
2) Many of the senior faculty members are above the age of 70 years but are still working in these private institutes which is against the PMDC rules.
3) Many Professors, Associate and Assistant Professors are working in these institutes getting leave from government sector which is again rule breaking attitude as directed by PMDC written regulations.
4) In some institutes faculty members above the age of 70 years have left the HOD-ship but they are still working as Principals, which is another PMDC rules regulations breaking behavior.
5) Some institutes have no infrastructure at all but they are recognized by PMDC because they showed so called artificial infrastructure on 1st, 2nd, 3rd…so forth visit of PMDC team and got reorganization for 5 years.
6) Some institutes have no teaching hospital which can train 100 MBBS students. They use to claim to have teaching hospital but you can observe deficiency in these teaching hospitals regarding number of beds, patients, teaching faculty, paramedical staff and equipments.
Where is PMDC, Health department, Government of Pakistan, Supreme Court and other concerned authorities of provincial governments?
Is there any law enforcement agency which can observe these deficiencies in these institutions to save rights of medical/dental undergraduate students and their parent’s money and true dreams?
DR. MANZOOR A. MALIK (Lahore, Pakistan)
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Over the next few days I've decided to post some of the inspirational breastfeeding and pregnancy stories I recently received to my website, www.BreastFeedingMums.com. If they inspire you to share your own story, them please email me and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! You can find a few pointers on the homepage!
Here's the first story which I felt was extremely important to share as it's not something we often hear about!
Breastfeeding with Colitis
I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis when I was 14 and after 6 years of getting ill (every 3 months after I stopped smoking) I went onto an immunosuppressant – Imuran.
It is known that this medication is not harmful to the foetus during pregnancy but (understandably) little or no research is available regarding breastfeeding. There are a few case studies of people with kidney transplants on the same meds breastfeeding anyway and the babies being ok but for me a few case studies were just not good enough.
There is also evidence about that breastfeeding helps protect against colitis – I wasn’t breastfed as my mum couldn’t do it due to other meds she was taking and since my dad has colitis (and so there’s a genetic link) I wanted to give ds the best chance that he wouldn’t get it too.
So, at 31 weeks pregnant, I came off my meds only to relapse 3 weeks before my EDD. I was so ill and tired towards the end that I had to have an epidural during the labour as I had no self-control over the contractions. However, ds came out and latched on straight away and sucked for 20 mins each side!
In the hospital a lactation consultant came around and showed me how to get a good latch – brilliant because I was doing it wrong before! However, my right side nipple is very flat and we had A LOT of problems when I got home. Resorted to using shields during the night as I was just so edgy and stressed with it but when ds got a bit older he learnt how to latch perfectly.
I was making too much milk at the start (or it was just coming out too fast) and ds was choking on it – he still does now mainly because he sucks so hard – he drains me in 7-10 minutes and has enough from one side to go 3 hours between feeds. He has only just started sleeping through at night.
We still have days where he screams at my nipples for no reason, days when he takes expressed breast milk from the bottle and not from me, he got a major tummy ache when he was 4 weeks old because I drank citrus and he gets bad skin whenever I do! At the start I was tempted to go to formula as he wasn’t sleeping through (still isn’t really) but the nurses convinced me not to. But I LOVE breast feeding and am really going to miss it when I have to stop when ds is 6 months. I have to stop because I cannot stay off my medication for any longer than this – I have to be on prednisolone in the meantime which long-term can cause my bones to stop forming properly and also is just not as good at preventing me from relapsing.
However, due to the great help with the nurses and support on various websites, I will be able to give ds 6 months of liquid gold and I’m so happy for that!