Vice Chancellor of National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed HI (M), (Retd) Wednesday termed climate change a threat to the global security, saying, it was impacting all fields of life.
The Vice Chancellor made his brief remarks after going round different stalls, set up by university students after launching ceremony of the Green Youth Movement at NUMS PWD Campus.
He said the kind of awareness, required to be raised in minds of the people was that, it was not only the responsibility of the Government alone but also us all, to get involved in green movement.
GYM is a wonderful initiative with a much greater outreach in the society as it involves students and stresses upon the need to adopt environment-friendly habits. The climate change relates to plants, and if right kind of plants are grown in right type of organic environment, it would have lasting impact on human health, said the Vice Chancellor.
Earlier in his brief remarks at launching ceremony Pro Vice Chancellor(Admn) NUMS Maj Gen Syed Ammar Reza Hamdani HI(M), (Retd) said that concept of Zero Waste campus should be introduced at the school level to educate children and to apprise them of the repercussions of climate change.
Pro VC said that launching of NUMS GYM was need of the hour as it would have spillover effect on other educational institutions.
