Azad Jammu and Kashmir University has crossed another milestone by launching a Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) and BS Ventilation and Respiratory Therapy degree programs under its Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
“The University under the visionary leadership of Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Kaleem Abbasi has become the first in the state to launch a 4-year degree program in Public Health and BS Ventilation and Respiratory Therapy”, said Dr. Bashir-ur-Rehman Kanth, Associate Dean Faculty of Health and the Medical Sciences University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad.
The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences was established in 2009 by the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir 2010 in collaboration with the German Development Bank, KFW, and the German Government/Department of Health led by Secretary Health in the wake of the devastating earthquake of 2005.
Dr. Kanth expressed his profound gratitude to the German government for its generous support and said that the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences would continue to be a symbol of friendship between the people of Germany and Azad Jammu and Kashmir for long time to come.
“We are extremely grateful to the German government, their mission in Pakistan, and the German Development Bank for their generous support to train over 800 students, the majority of them female”, he said. Dr. Kanth was of the view that an extensive network of modern hospitals.
