Baqai Medical University

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The Baqais( Dr.Fareed Uddin Baqai and Dr.Zahida Baqai) both medical practitioners and surgeons by profession, after completing their medical education in Pakistan and Great Britain, started practicing the art of healing in an underdeveloped country and in a fast growing city of Karachi. The enormity and complexity of health care problems and the paucity of proper infrastructures for health care... delivery systems motivated them to develop a comprehensive concept of community development on the basis of self reliance and without depending upon the public sector financing.The concept started unfolding itself in concrete actions when the Baqai Foundation acquired a large piece of land on Super Highway just at the outskirts of Karachi and established the first ever rural Medical Centre supported by secondary and tertiary health care facilities in 1976.
The gashing flow of creativity and new ideas then began to take further concrete shape in the form of an organization. From this stage onwards, it was only a matter of time and intensity of commitments. In early 80"s the basic construction of the building of Baqai Medical College was started. After the completion of the infrastructure, designing of curriculum to conform to the community-oriented medical education and recruitment of highly qualified and most experienced personnel available in the profession, affiliation with the University of Karachi was obtained and the Baqai Medical College was started in 1988 with admission of 50 students for the first batch. In 1992, Baqai Foundation established the Baqai Dental College. It goes to the credit of Baqai’s that this is the first ever Dental College to be set-up at Karachi. In July 1996 through a bill passed unanimously in Sindh Assembly and the then Governor of Sindh, through a special notification promulgated an ordinance, called Baqai Medical University Act of 1996. By virtue of it Baqai Medical University came into existence.
Presently the university stands on a campus of 72 acres with buildup area of 7,27,374 sq.ft in seven blocks of buildings. Housing 13 institutions, shouldering the teaching responsibility of 1800 students, awarding 19 degrees and diplomas in various specialties. It directly and indirectly employs more than 1000 individuals in different capacities. It is the only university in Pakistan established on the theme of Community Based and Community Oriented Medical Education. The futuristic mission of our Community Oriented University is being adhered to and continuous improvement and widening of paradigms of education being imparted to students is its integral component so that they can competes with all international standards.
Our vision is a University Town at Gadap, having been developed around Baqai Medical University like Oxford & Cambridge Universities in England, on the pattern of Utah State University and the Aligarh Muslim University of Indo-Pak subcontinent. This town of Education and Learning will have a good number of Colleges of ARTS and SCIENCES besides Universities. This mega project is being developed on the basis of Self Reliance. The government is supportive of these projects and efforts have been made to bolster academic and research projects in the best possible manner.
The women’s status raised economically, educationally, health-wise and Socially through Social Obstetrics. All this being achieved by the Community through community participation at all levels, with complete autonomy at local level having no central bureaucratic control.
Modern Medicine, despite globalization, is evolving in a society-linked manner. In North America this is expensive, technological and litigation conscious whereas in Europe, it is evolving into another social service and a job rather than a profession. In Pakistan with its double disease load of deprived, largely rural people combined with the diseases of comfort of the developed world. The requirement is for better doctors than elsewhere who can utilize the best of other world cultures and sciences.
The 21st century has added further pressures and needs to medical education. High quality information is doubling every 3 years. The genomic revolution has shown that all diseases have an individual genetic predisposition which is expressed by interaction with the environment, largely nutrition. This has been a great advantage in allowing prevention. Finally, systems biology development has reminded us that the whole patient needs to be treated and that the proliferation of super specialities to deal with increased knowledge requires a very firm base in understanding and treating the whole patient.
Societal changes also dictate its methods into medical teaching and practice. Baqai has responded by founding an institute of Information Technology which interacts with the university at all levels. In a similar manner, the importance of economy and financial matters in modern life has led to the development of an institute of Business Administration.