BLS 2015

EVENT REPORT : BASIC LIFE SUPPORT WORKSHOP by IFMSA KEMU LC in collaboration with RESCUE 1122

BY: HUDA AKHTAR &HOORIA SHUMAIL 

FIRST-YEAR MBBS 

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

At this age of immense scientific development and technological discoveries, man has been trapped in the disastrous side effects that accompany the poise and confit related to various inventions and lead to carelessness and tragedies. This is why we come across news based upon deaths due to roadside accidents, electrical shocks, falls from height and several other miserable events. Most imminent but distressing and vexatious truth is that most of these agonising deaths can be prevented if the traumatised person is attended while considering the rules of Basic Life Support but most of our people lack this knowledge.

Pondering upon the thoughts that above statements describe, IFMSA Local Council, KEMU decided to organise Basic Life Support Workshop in collaboration with Rescue 1122 which is the leading Emergency Humanitarian Service of Pakistan.

The first phase of workshop was held on 14th and 15th May, 2015 in Old Auditorium, King Edward Medical University from 12 pm to 4 pm. The second phase is due in the month of June. Registrations were started a week before and 80 students of Final Year MBBS and AHS Final Year were registered during the first phase of this workshop. A team of Rescue 1122 comprising of Head of Community Safety Wing and two Community Instructors were invited for this purpose.

                                            

DAY 1: First day of this workshop i.e. 14th May, 2015 was specified for demonstrations of CPR by the instructors applicable to Adult men, women, infants and handling of roadside accidents. Sir Khalid Masood Gondal, Regional Director and Councillor CPSP, was invited as the chief guest.

The program started with the recitation of Holy Quran by Maryam Sarwar and Naat by Dua Noor.

The presenter Izzah Bazigh then invited Sir Khalid Masood Gondal who gave his thoughts on the event and said that he was pleased to have the Rescuer Team to this University. He, then announced that the top twelve scorers of the final assessment of BLS Workshop will be able to attend International BLS Workshop that increased the zest among the learners. This address ended with a big round of applause.

The event proceeded with the distribution of shields to Rescue Team, Sir Khalid Masood Gondal, Arfa Ahmad (President IFMSA KEMU LC), Aleesha Kainat, Hamza Arshad, Isma Iftikhar, Awais Ahmad, Khawar Abbas, Khawar Sana, Moiz Tahir, Hafiz Syed Zaigham Shah, Izzah Bazigh and other executive members of IFMSA KEMU LC.

At about 1:30pm, the instructors demonstrated the students with the basic methods of CPR and the proper ways to manage traumas in pre-hospital situations. It was followed by a video illustrating various steps of CPR.

                                          

The first day of this event ended at about 4pm preceded by practical by the learners.

DAY 2: Second day of Basic Life Support Workshop i.e. 15th May, 2015 was aimed for demonstration of handling patients with Spinal Injury in places where medical facilities are unavailable and assessment of the learners.

                                        

At 12pm, Event continued with Recitation of Holy Qur'an and Naat followed by a video showing the considerate, sympathetic, and selfless services carried out by Rescue 1122. Afterwards, demonstration and an assessment comprising of practical and written test was held.

The event ended with a group photo, refreshments and a thank you note to the rescuer team and the team behind this event consisting of Hamza Arshad who managed the event from the start till the end, Aleesha Kainat, Isma Iftikhar, Fatima Rizwan, and Dua Noor who shared the workload managing the registration lists, registration desk and others. Awais Ahmed did a brilliant work with shields and printing stuff. Khawar Abbas handled all the presentations.  Izzah Bazigh did the compering and Nimra Pasha did coverage of the event perfectly. Organisers from 1st Year MBBS, Huda Akhtar, Kanza Syed, Hooria Shumail, Hafsa Aman, Hafiza Maryam Sarwar and Mishal Ijaz stayed and managed the hall and participants.

Summarising the event in the words of a learner: 'I am highly obliged to have attended Basic Life Support Workshop. It was indeed a very well organised and well managed event. We got to learn the inevitable Methods of Basic Life Support in a very constructive way. The Moto of Rescue 1122 'Prevention, Preparation and Response' was very well promoted. I hope that IFMSA KEMU LC continues carrying out such useful and productive events in future too'.

PCOS AWARENESS SEMINAR

PCOS AWARENESS SEMINAR

Polycystic ovarian syndrome also  known as hyperandrogenian ovulation (HA), or Stein-Leventhal syndrome is the most frequent endocrine disorder in young women of child bearing age (from age 18-44).  one in every ten women suffer from this syndrome. It is basically not a single disease but a constellation of clinical symptoms that includes amenorrhea or oligomenorrhea, hirsutism, insulin resistance,  obesity and presence of polycystic ovaries

It can be diagnosed in all phases of life - in girls as young as 8-9 years of age, up through post-menopause. Its awareness is a critically important and a bit challenging due to the social stigma attached.

But IFMSA KEMU-LC, under the competent hands of the worthy president, Arfa Ahmad, was able to accept this challenge and took a vigilant step to look over the gravity of this syndrome and the fact its spreading at such speed. On 8th MAY 2015, an awareness seminar was conducted on PCOS for the first time ever under the umbrella of SCORA .and proficient director SCORA KEMU, Isma Iftikhar final year. The idea was proposed and directed by Omaima Gul Qureshi of 2nd year who showed her virtuoso throughout the event. 

VP, Aleesha kianat and Hamza Arshad actively handled all the proceedings throughout the event. The event was hosted by Noor ul Ain from 3rd year.

Most importantly, Team was honored to have Sir Dr. Nadeem Shehzad Goraya, obstetrics and gynecologist, Assistant professor KEMU, as the chief guest.

 

The target audience of the seminar was medical students of KEMU itself along with students of CMH AIMC FJ and also from KC. 

The event started with the recitation of the holy Quran by Mohsin Ali Dynamo of 2^nd year.

Then Aqsa Abid of 2^nd year spread calm and serenity through Naat in her melodious voice.

After this, presentation on PCOS started with first speaker as Izza Bazigh of 3^rd year giving a brief introduction on what is POS and why its awareness is so important and the social stigmas attached to it.

Then the presentation was led by the adroit students of 2^nd year, KEMCOLIAN’S BATCH’18. The first speaker being Omaima Gul Qureshi herself, deftly explained the basics of the syndrome and the signs and symptoms the second speaker was Mohsin Ali Dynamo who awesomely handled the topic of pathogenesis of the syndrome.

Ayesha Sikander Baig explicitly explained the diagnostic methods of the syndrome.

A video by Aimen Saeed was played regarding the myths of Pcos along with the expert’s opinion and also a symbol of courage and support for the patients of PCOS. 

Next the presentation was continued by Aimen Saeed who adeptly clarified the methods to manage the syndrome in case one is diagnosed with. The last speaker, Bilal Rehman efficiently focused the audience’s attention on prognosis of the syndrome.

The multimedia was professionally being handled by Ahsan Iqbal of 2^nd year and Khawar Abbas of 3^rd year.

Hall discipline was managed by Hadia Tahir and Hira Khalid of 2nd year.

Last but not the least,our chief guest,  Sir Nadeem Goraya gave his expert opinion on the disease and his personal experiences with this syndrome and shared his point of views on methods to prevent this in girls in future.

At the end there was a question answer session between the audience and Dr. Nadeem

The audience participated to its fullest clarifying their doubts about PCOS.

At last a shield was presented to Dr. Nadeem as to honor his presence.

Omaima Qureshi and Mohsin Ali from 2nd year conducted a survey among the girls of reproductive age to measure the prevalence of its risk factors.

So this event fully explained the fact that every human has four endowments - self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Photography by:

Noormah Nasir 3rd year

Maida Shahzad 2nd year

OPEN DAY 2K15

OPEN DAY 2K15

For most of the pre-medical students, the word “KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY” is a dream, distant and hazy, opaque and smoggy. Only a select few are able to enter its premises as students and experience first- hand the grandeur that K.E has to offer. But on 24th of March, continuing the very tradition, IFMSA KEMU LC, under the worthy and proficient presidency of ARFA AHMAD, arranged the OPEN DAY, for prospective students, giving them an exclusive glimpse into the wonders and marvels,  the world KEMU holds in it, thus adding fuel to their desire to attain admission in this prestigious and celebrated institution and imparting indispensable knowledge to them on how to ace their exams to achieve their goal of getting into this historical phenomenon, THE KEMU . 

The students from GCU, KIPS, KC, LGS, FC College, Punjab College, Iqra Institute, Queen Mary College, Al-Hamd institute and many other notable colleges participated with great zeal.

BEGINNING

 

 The event started with recitation of Holy Quran, followed by introductory note by society president. The event was hosted by Izza Bazigh and Ayesha Irfan from 3rd year who were very competent in their job.

VP, Aleesha kianat and Hamza Arshad actively handled all the stage proceedings throughout the event.

 

Dr. Khalid Masood Gondal and Dr. Atif Kazmi delivered inaugural addresses in a very unique and inspirational style. Another gem of medical field Dr. Ali Hashmi interacted with the students. He walked down the stage to address the undergraduate audience directly. 

Following this was the video introducing students to IFMSA. After the introduction was the academic part of the event. First presentation was by Awais Raza and Shajee ud Din from 3rd year
and 1st year respectively which was very helpful and panoptic presentation and it covered Fsc comprehensively.

This event was not solely for board examinees, showing the very example of “SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE”, Raza Shahzad and Raja Mobeen from 4th year and 2nd year respectively.

They provided the A-levels students with very panoramic and professional guidance. 

ENTERTAINMENT BREAK

After this heavy duty nerdy stuff there was an entertainment break.   

 
A multi award winning short film of KE, “TEEN MINUTE” was shown to students. It earned applause from everyone in the hall. 

Farhan Ashraf from 4th year also sang a song.

Sana Shahid from 1st year resumed the academic part, the very purpose of the event, with her impeccable presentation on MCAT.

The highlight of the day was Kanza Noor’s presentation who is the highest scorer in MCAT so far. She talked about the general aspects of student life including emphasis on how to avert pre-conceived fears and seize opportunities as they come.

Ayesha Seerat was also commendable with her presentation.

Then came a refreshing and lightly comical performance by Ahmad Rafay from 3rd year. He analyzed ways how to handle the stress. 

 A video by Khawar Abbas introducing all the societies of KE was played showing Kemcolians going bubbly and not so theetas.

After this was the KDS skit, a hilarious and jovial performance by Unsa Athar, Hassan Ali, Asad Mehmood and Talha Tarrar, thoroughly enjoyed by the audience.

Filza Saeed from 1st year and Hira Asghar concluded the mentoring session with their excellent presentations. Filza raised an important point that how to excel without the pangs of academies. 

ENDING

The event ended with humorous short video called “10 WAYS OF GETTING INTO KE” that made all the onlookers giggle. And the dust settled down with a campus tour for the guests headed by the Kemcolians.

 

This was the humble effort by IFMSA LC KEMU specially SCOME and all the organizers worked their heart out to accomplish what the event was destined for.

An Event Report by NIMRA RAMZAN