The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore arranged ‘Friends Donor Confer-ence’ under its flood relief and assistance campaign 2022, at the city campus, here on Friday.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad presided over the conference, while Chairman Department of Parasitology Prof Dr Kamran Ashraf, Convener UVAS Flood Relief Management Committee Prof Dr Muhammad Ijaz and a number of donors/ repre-sentatives from dairy, poultry, food and pharmaceu-tical industries, UVAS Flood Relief Management Committee members and students from different departments were present.
Addressing the conference, Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad said that UVAS had arranged the first of its kind conference and got maximum response in terms of fund raising from donors which showed their trust on UVAS and is really appreciable. He said the UVAS collected seven million rupees within one week under UVAS flood relief & assistance cam-paign 2022.
He said Chancellor/Governor Punjab Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman always encourages UVAS work-ing for betterment of humanity. He said UVAS’s 50 per cent of students belonged to south Punjab, which was badly affected due to heavy floods. He said students would take part in this activity which would be very beneficial for them in dealing with emergency situations in future.