HYDERABAD, Aug 1: Higher Education Commission chairman Prof (Dr) Atta-ur-Rehman will inaugurate a high-tech research central laboratory and the telemedicine and e-health discipline at the University of Sindh in the third week of August.

In this connection, a meeting was held on Monday under the chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui which discussed arrangements for holding the inaugural ceremony.

The dean of the faculty of sciences and project director of the research laboratory, Dr Mohammad Yar Khuhawar, told the meeting that equipment had been installed in the laboratory and work on its auditorium was at the final stage.

He said the university had constructed the building of the laboratory at a cost of Rs14 million from its own resources and the HEC had allocated Rs38 million for the purchase of equipment.

The director of the university’s Institute of Information Technology, Dr A. W. Ansari, said 40 candidates, majority of whom were doctors, had got admission to the first batch of M.Sc Telemedicine.

INTERNET SERVICE: Internet service will soon be provided at hostels for boys and girls of the University of Sindh through wireless connectivity.

The matter was discussed at a meeting of the Internet Service Committee of the university on Monday.

Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui presided over the meeting which was attended by committee members from the Institute of Information Technology and the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The committee members presented a progress report of internet service at various institutes and departments of the university’s Jamshoro and Hyderabad campuses.

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