City Reporter
COMSTECH & Maroof International Hospital jointly inaugurated 2-day international training in randomized controlled trials, at COMSTECH Secretariat, on Thursday.
Prof. K. H. Mujtaba Quadri, Chair Research and Head of Nephrology, Maroof Clinical Investigation Center, Maroof International Hospital, Islamabad, stressed the need of training in conducting controlled trials and called for joint strategy.
He has delivered keynote speech at the occasion. Prof. Quadri, talked about history, and legacy of clinical trials initiation and gave a comprehensive guidelines of the current course, including etiquettes to be followed during the course, in his speech.
Dr. Abdur Rasheed, Director, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan, informed about the current clinical trials being conducted in Pakistan and stressed the need of capacity building through training of researchers in conducting clinical trials.
Dr. Ghazna Khalid, Member Prime Minister’s Task Force for COVID19, said that we have potential of conducting clinical trials, and we should train our researchers to perform quality trials.
Dr. Shahzad Ali Khan, Vice-Chancellor, Health Services Academy (HSA), chaired the inaugural session. He said that HSA and COMSTECH has joined hands to carry out joint projects for capacity building in public health sector as well as health care research.
He appreciated the idea of Prof. Choudhary, Coordinator General COMSTECH, that we should out-reach to the OIC countries that are in urgent need of strengthening of their public health system.
