Dr. Rafiq Khanani
Dr. M. Rafiq Khanani, MBBS, M.Phil., Ph.D
is the Professor and Chairman of Pathology and Microbiology Department at Dow University of Health Sciences. He is also Director of Dow Diagnostic Reference and Research Laboroties, President of Infection Control Society Pakistan (I.C.S.P.), Consultant Accreditation of Infection Control and Public Health, and Managing Director of Citilab Diagnostic Center.
Health and research in Pakistan - Letter
Clinician scientists are rare in Pakistan, and this is one of the main causes of the scarcity of medical research done in the country. Despite the establishment of the Higher Education Commission in 2002, which has resulted in recent advances in the research output from the Pakistani medical universities, less than 8% of the postgraduate supervisors holding a PhD degree have a medical qualification.
No evidence of anthrax found in sheep: experts
A medical board comprising five experts, constituted on the order of the Sindh High Court (SHC), said late on Saturday night that its preliminary findings showed no evidence of anthrax in imported Austrian sheep.
The board, headed by Dr Rafiq Khanani of the Dow University of Health Sciences, recommended a halt in the culling of the sheep, which are said to be infected with the highly contagious OFR disease as well.
SHC orders provisional testing of sheep
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday ordered provisional testing by veterinary and microbiological experts of nearly 20,000 sheep imported from Australia.
A division bench, headed by Justice Maqbool Baqir, also ordered that the culling of sheep be stopped till September 24, 2012, if no signs of deadly anthrax disease were found in the herd.
