PTCL makes Haj dream of staff come true


STAFF REPORT IBD: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) held a reception in honour of the Haj pilgrims who have been sponsored by PTCL under the employee welfare scheme for the haj pilgrimage.

The reception was attended by Syed Mazhar Hussain, Chief Human Resource Officer PTCL; Tahir Mushtaq, EVP HR Operations PTCL; Naushad H Javaid, EVP Leadership and Organizational Development PTCL, Shahzad Safdar Khan, and EVP HR Services PTCL along with other senior management of the

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UNIDO conducts training for water lab staff


STAFF REPORT IBD: The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has recently conducted a two-day training workshop on water testing in the laboratories in Pakistan.

According to a statement issued here by the UNIDO, the workshop was organised to cater to the needs of laboratory staff working at the various laboratories of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) located across Pakistan.

The event was attended by the technical staff members from PCRWR,

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Experts urged to revise quality education for veterinary staff

STAFF REPORT LHR: Dr. Rafiq-ul-Hassan Usmani, Member (Animal Sciences) PARC, urged the livestock experts to revise the curricula and quality education for the Para Veterinary Staff in the country in order to provide better health and animal husbandry services to the livestock owners.He said this while addressing at inaugural session of National Workshop on "Present Status and Future Prospects of Para Veterinary Education in Pakistan recently held at PARC HQs, Islamabad.PARC organized

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Medical staff sensitised on mercury systems

STAFF REPORT IBD: Some dental teaching hospitals, indoor mercury levels are found to be 15 – 20 times higher than the permissible limit for human health. Mercury contamination measurements have recently been made by Lumex mercury analyzer.A brief training and demonstration of Lumex use was also given by Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja and Maryam Shabbir, to a group of postgraduate students at ICS who also assisted SDPI monitoring team in the survey work at a few sites in Peshawar. The SDPI mercury

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