Chinese education group, Islamia University sign MOU on medical education
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in medical education
has been signed between China’s Tang International Education Group and Islamia
University of Bahawalpur.
Que Haitao, vice director of overseas operation
centre at TIEG, told China Economic Net (CEN) the cooperation is
partly spurred on by the China-Pakistan Health Corridor. “Cooperation on TCM
between the two countries has been ongoing for some time,” the vice director
said. “We would like to push it forward through education collaboration”.
Que said the first step is to collaborate with Pakistani
universities to build a China-Pakistan medical centre and cultivate TCM talent
at technical, undergraduate and graduate levels.
“More will be done to integrate education with the industry,
such as formulating academic and industrial standards for TCM,” highlighted the
vice director, adding that the group has a team of some 20 international
experts to work towards this goal.
Such a tie-up may be a supplement to Pakistan’s existing medical
education. “Few universities in Pakistan offer courses on traditional medicine
such as TCM. Knowledge about traditional medicine may appear in the course of
Pharmacy in some Pakistani medical schools,” Prof Dr Yang Zhigang, deputy dean
of the School of Pharmacy of Lanzhou University, told CEN in a written
interview.
Having conducted a field study of medicinal plants in Pakistan’s
plant-rich province of Gilgit Baltistan in 2017, Dr Yang told CEN in an
interview that Pakistan has thousands of varieties of medicinal plants, and
that the country has fallen short on both health-related and economic use of
medicinal plants, an integral part of traditional herbal medicine.
Source: China Economic Net
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