King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Alumni honoured Professor Akhtar Sohail Chughtai honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award, (LAA) at the 5th annual dinner at the University’s Library Hall.
The Patron in Chief of this get together was Prof Khalid Masood Gondal, Vice-hancellor KEMU and the Chief Guest of the Century Best (1960) graduate of KEMC was Prof Mahmood Ali Malik. The proceedings started with the verses from the Holy Quran. Prof Saira Afzal, Dean of Public Health and Preventive Medicine handled the stage with perfection.
Prof Khalid Masood Gondal (KEMCOLIAN 1986) welcomed the distinguished guests in the beautifully decorated historical Library Hall of Patiala Block, KEMU.
He highlighted the academic, research infrastructural development project and quality service delivery provided by the Faculty of KEMU and its seven attached hospitals, especially during the Covid-19 scenario.
He apprised the participants that the Telemedicine Department, established at KEMU in March 2020, has provided State of the Art facility to the patients through teleconsultation from more than eighty cities in Pakistan and forty-five countries across the world.
The Vice-Chancellor also informed that the four-storied Maqbool Ahmad Block has also been completed and recently inaugurated by the Honourable Governor of Punjab. He said that it was a very huge and expensive project solely funded by a proud EMCOLIAN of 1968, Dr Maqbool Ahmad, a renowned Ophthalmologist in the USA, with 1.6 Million US Dollars.
