President of Cihan University-Erbil: Preparing to Open the Departments of Pharmacy and Dentistry
In a meeting with a delegation from the Dental Syndicate in Iraq, Prof. Dr. Amjad Saber Al-Delawi, President of Cihan University-Erbil, declared “considering scientific and international standards, our university is in the stage of preparing to open the Department of Pharmacy and the Department of Dentistry at a high level and quality. We are going to provide all supplies, scientific laboratories and distinguished scientific staff for this purpose.”
The meeting took place at the presidency of Cihan University-Erbil on Sunday, June 20, 2021. Prof. Dr. Amjad arranged the meeting with Dr. Abu Bakr Ziyad Al-Rawi, the head of the Dental Syndicate in Iraq, Dr. Maysoon Al-Haidari, the vice president of the university for Scientific Affairs, and Dr. Abdul-Sattar Saeed Karim, the vice president of the university for Administrative Affairs and students. They discussed how to build scientific relations between Cihan University-Erbil and the Dental Association, especially in a cooperation to open the Dental Department at Cihan University-Erbil.
At the beginning of the meeting, Prof. Dr. Amjad Saber Al-Delawi welcomed the guest delegation and spoke briefly about Cihan University-Erbil which is founded in 2007and now it is the top university among other private universities in Kurdistan Region and Iraq. Cihan University-Erbil has 13000 graduates whom have obtained a variety of job opportunities. Currently, there are approximately 5,000 students in 7 faculties and 22 scientific departments.
In another part of his speech, President of Cihan University-Erbil mentioned the significant level of scientific relations between Cihan University-Erbil to the other universities at the international and local levels. He also indicated that Cihan University-Erbil obtained the academic accreditation for the engineering departments from the German Ziba Foundation, and with regard to other scientific departments, the university is working and coordinating with a distinguished British scientific Institution to gain the academic accreditation.
Prof. Dr. Amjad Saber Al-Delawi talked about the university’s future vision and goals, especially regarding how to develop scientific fields with reputable universities and high-level international academic institutions.
Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Amjad announced that Cihan University-Erbi is in the process of preparing to open a Department of Pharmacy and a Department of Dentistry at a high level and quality. For this purpose, the university establishes well-equipped laboratories and appoints qualified academic staff in the fields of Pharmacy and Dentistry.
The President of the Dental Syndicate, Dr. Abu Bakr Ziyad Al-Rawi, expressed his thanks and appreciation to the President of the university for his hospitality and admired the progress and the development achieved by Cihan University-Erbil, both quantitatively and qualitatively. He also stated that it is needed to have such leading universities to educate new and skillful staff for our society as concentrating on the quality and preparing knowledgeable staff is considered a necessity of our country. He hoped that Cihan University-Erbil pursue its path to be always a prestigious university.