QIU students continued to bring in accolades for the university by bagging the Best Speaker award and emerged first runner-up at the recent 6th Malaysian Pharmacy Students Association (MyPSA) National Pharmacy Debate Competition conducted online.
After an excellent campaign through the preliminary rounds and semi-finals, Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) undergraduates Lee Joe Yee, Ooi Wei Jin and Simon Vienoth representing team QUEST 2 put up a top-class showing in the grand finals but were narrowly edged out by the team from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).
The motion debated in the grand finals was ‘This House believes that in times of global health crises, regulatory standards should be relaxed to expedite the approval of vaccines and/or cures’.Team QUEST 2 who spoke for the motion argued some splendid points and made a powerful impression on the judges.