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“Emergency rooms have existed in Pakistan since the mid 1950s. However emergency medicine is just now beginning to get recognition as a specialized branch of internal medicine. Agha Khan University Hospital (AKU) is in the process of graduating its first batch of emergency medicine residents this year. To date there is only one official emergency medicine training residency in Pakistan, the one at AKU. In terms of the patient disease pathology the one major difference is the percentage of infectious disease patients – almost 40% of critical care cases are serious tropical infections such as malaria, dengue and the like. Unlike the our standard patient population, the acuity level of the patients seen in the emergency rooms is very high with up to 60% admission..." -DR. NUR-AIN NADIR

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