Students should live some life for themselves, but also learn to live some for others as well, said Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Resource Generation and Outreach (RGO) Department Chairperson Kishwar Zehra on Saturday.
She was speaking at the certificate distribution ceremony for the 27th batch of Student Volunteer Programme organised by the SIUT.
Zehra informed the audience that in the programme, 92 students had participated from various schools. The volunteers were imparted 30 hours of extensive patient management and care training in all the departments and in-patient wards especially the children unit.
“The trainees while taking their certificates from the institute shall also carry with them SIUT’s message that the real purpose of life is embedded in serving humanity; the more one implements it, the more it grows. Serving others is not only self satisfying and gratifying, it is also blissful,” she said. “Students become so involved and bonded with the patients while taking care of them during the training that the patients tend to forget their illnesses and worries, a fact that needs to be encouraged.”
The RGO department chairperson said that to date 2,608 students from various educational institutions have been trained in the volunteer programme.
She pointed out that some students have completed more than 1,000 hours of patient care service and are still continuing the good work. “Better education and upbringing of students is necessary for the progress of nation and the need of the hour is to utilise all our resources to achieve this goal,” she added.
In his address to the students, Consultant Urologist at SIUT Prof Dr Zafar Hussain highlighted the multiple training stages that the student volunteers underwent in the different medical faculties under the supervision of doctors of the respective fields.
The specialist advised the students to conform to the standard guidelines for the management of patients and informed the audience about SIUT’s facilities, such as several disease dedicated outpatient departments, radiology, clinical laboratory, dialysis, transplantation, lithotripsy and endoscopy among others.
Students, parents and teachers participated in the event and the certificate receiving students also shared this unique experience with the gathering. The parents reiterated the fact that programmes of such noble nature are most crucial for better upbringing of children, ensuring good future citizens and human beings.
At the end of the ceremony, country’s noted music composer Javed Mir accompanied by volunteer Zainab Imran and children sang the SIUT’s theme song “Aao Mil Kar Bantain Dukh, Sukh Ki Baat Karain” to the applause of the audience.
