Staff Reporter
The World Health Organization (WHO) and National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad jointly arranged a three days training course on ” Introduction Laboratory Epidimiology” for epidimiologists and public health experts at the Institute of Public Health(IPH), Lahore.
The objective of the training workshop was to provide knowhow and elaborate importance as well as role of Laboratory tests in diagnosis of diseases to the epidimiologists and public health experts so that a strong linkage could be developed between both systems. Sixteen faculty members of IPH got training as “Master Trainers” who will not only educate the student doctors of Master of Public Health (MPH) class but also provide training to other epidimiologists in Punjab. While giving details, Dean IPH, Prof. Dr. Zarfishan Tahir further said that Laboratory Epidimiology course will enable the experts working in the field to get more authentic data of any epidemic / disease and random sampling for diagnosis through Lab. tests, it would help to determine the intensity of the diseases and its future trend for intime forcast about the epidemic.
