As Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik, celebrates its silver jubilee year, Vice Chancellor Lt Gen Madhuri Kanitkar (Retd), is keen on redefining the varsity as an academic and research hub. A slew of programmes has been organised to usher in the celebrations that include inaugurating the regional centre of MUHS at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar apart from starting patient care services at Pune MUHS regional centre’s GeneHealth laboratory.
Sangam (Synergy of Academia and Networking with Government and Allied Health and Medical Professionals) international conference gets underway on June 2 in Mumbai. Governor Ramesh Bais will inaugurate the conference which will also mark the digital launch of the services at Pune and Sambhaji Nagar.
“Post Covid-19 pandemic, there is a focus on building sustainable and resilient health systems and there is a need to address the prevailing and potential healthcare challenges,” Kanitkar told The Indian Express, adding that the conference will cover various topics related to healthcare and health systems apart from discussions on public health policy and effects of climate change.
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pawar and state medical education minister Girish Mahajan will be the chief guests at functions to be organised on June 9-10 on the varsity campus at Nashik. MUHS was set up on June 3, 1998 at Nashik and since inception the foundation day has been celebrated on June 10. The university has more than 500 affiliated colleges and among its various achievements include the recent online training and guidance of medical students who had returned from war-torn Ukraine.
The foundation stone of the varsity’s much awaited PG medical college and hospital -– Maharashtra Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (MPGIMER) (that is currently operating from the premises of Nashik civil hospital) — will be laid during the celebration functions. The VC is keen on setting up centres of excellence for research across MUHS’s six regional centres. This includes dentistry and infectious disease research at the Mumbai regional centre, tribal research at the Nagpur regional centre, molecular genetics research at the Pune regional centre, research in ophthalmic sciences at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and excellence in research in the field of AYUSH at Latur regional centre.
