PSO donates Rs20 million to AKUH

KARACHI (PR): Pakistan State Oil (PSX: PSO), the largest oil marketing company of the country, has donated Rs20 million to The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) for treatment of at least 40 children from humble background who are born with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD).

The announcement came during an official signing ceremony held at the University Hospital premises in Karachi. Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is a birth defect in the structure of the heart. Over 60,000 children are born each year with this life-threatening condition in Pakistan.  The donations by PSO CSR Trust has been made through the Patients Behbud Society for AKUH (PBS), a charitable society responsible for collecting and disbursing zakat, in order to help ‘mustehiq’ patients receive high quality medical treatment at The Aga Khan University Hospital, its clinics and medical centers.

Sheikh Imranul Haque, MD & CEO, PSO, presented the cheque of support on behalf of the PSO CSR Trust to Nadeem Mustafa Khan, Chairman, Patients Behbud Society for AKUH. Imran Rana, Deputy General Manager – Corporate Communications, PSO, signed and exchanged the memorandum of understanding with Nadeem Mustafa Khan. Hans Kedzierski, CEO, AKUH Pakistan, Babar H Chaudhry, Trustee from the PSO CSR Trust, and other senior officials from both sides were also present to witness the ceremony.

Speaking at the ceremony, Sheikh Imranul Haque, MD & CEO PSO, said: “This is unfortunate that 50,000 to 60,000 children are born with congenital heart diseases (CHD) every year in Pakistan out of which many die in neonatal life due to lack of proper medical treatment. We at PSO believe that children are the future of the nation. It is therefore our social responsibility to help provide quality healthcare facilities to them regardless of their background.” “PSO thorough its CSR Trust is very pleased to partner with The Aga Khan University Hospital and its Patients Behbud Society. We have been regularly donating funds to save precious lives of children and will continue to play our role in making their lives safe and better.”

SMIU Festival will be a yearly feature

KARACHI (PR): Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Vice Chancellor of Sindh Madressatul Islam University, has said that the students of SMIU have a tremendous talent and creative and leadership abilities, which they exhibited by organizing a most successful event of Festival of Arts and Ideas, recently.

He said this at SMIU’ auditorium, while addressing the prizes and certificates distribution ceremony held for the students and faculty members, who had organized different events and set up best stalls during the festival. The vice chancellor gave away honorarium to 53 students of the university who had organized about 40 different events during the festival. Also seven faculty members and twenty students were awarded certificates on their best performance during the festival. He also gave prizes to the students on their best documentaries.

Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh said that all the students of SMIU remarkably performed during the festival and proved that they can successfully organize such mega events in the future also. He said that SMIU while feeling proud of its past, works to produce dynamic leadership of the future also. Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh further said that during the festival both the male and female students played a very significant role by organizing different events. This all happened because SMIU believes in gender balanced policy. Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh said that the SMIU Festival will be a yearly feature, because it provides opportunities to its students to learn from their own experiences while organizing such events, attending different thought provoking sessions and listening different successful persons.