LUMS Emergency Medical Services and FemSoc in collaboration with Chughtai Lab are hosting a one day Breast Cancer Awareness campaign:
#ThinkPink with Chughtai Lab: Breast Cancer Awareness
Date: October 5, 2016
Consultation Camps
Time: 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm
Venue: Auditoriums in the Academic Block
Awareness Session
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue: Saeed Saigol Auditorium
About the event
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and is observed with an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. Chughtai Lab in collaboration with LUMS Emergency Medical Services and FemSoc is hosting this one day drive to raise awareness of breast cancer, as well as inform people to take the required steps to formulate a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same.
The awareness session will include interactive session by Dr. Zunaira Rathore, consultant pathologist at Chughtai Lab about Breast Cancer and a few minutes talk by Ms. Muniba Mazari, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Chughtai Lab. The session will be concluded with announcement of winner of poster competition worth PKR 10,000/-
Chughtai Lab is one of the leading pathology labs in Pakistan that has been serving since 1983. Today it has an extensive network of more than 150 branches nationwide and operating in all provinces of Pakistan. At Chughtai Lab, the search to add new technologies and instruments is a never-ending one, as it wishes to serve its patients better. This spirit of innovation has been its aim from the very beginning. Chughtai Lab is constantly looking to offer new tests so that it may serve its patients better.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at LUMS, Pakistan is a department organised, managed, and run by LUMS student volunteers who are trained in First Aid to serve as First Responders to any campus medical / trauma emergency.
The student-run LUMS Emergency Medical Service (EMS) is one of the most shining examples of student responsibility and achievement, not only at LUMS but at any University. This volunteer student organisation has emerged as the first point of call in medical emergencies on campus.
EMS is sponsored by Mahvash and Jehangir Siddiqui Foundation. Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation is a trust that operates as an entity in its own right. At Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation the aim is to provide healthcare, education and social enterprise through sustainable development to underprivileged members of society with a special focus on women, minorities, children and individuals with disabilities.
FemSoc at LUMS is a student run society concerned with creating and increasing awareness about gendered problems that result from patriarchal attitudes embedded in social and cultural institutions. By arranging dialogues, and having conversations with the LUMS community, the Feminist Society (FemSoc) attempts to engage with problems produced by expected gender roles, the disregard of female education, sexual harassment, the dominance of male culture in the workplace, as well as mobility problems for women across economic classes. FemSoc is also a society that is attempting to push for structural change for gender and sexual minorities on campus and hopes to create a safe environment for such minorities.
