Doctors recommend ways to reduce child mortality rate

Dr Stephen informs audience about the importance of breastfeeding

MULTAN: Speakers at a symposium on neonatology recommended ways and means to safeguard newborn babies from diseases through medical and preventative measures on Friday. Paediatrics Department of Nishtar Medical University (NMU) organised the two-day symposium on Neonatology in Jinnah Auditorium and Assembly Hall. NMU Vice Chancellor Dr Ahmad Ijaz Masood along with a large number of pediatricians, nurses and other doctors attended the opening session.

Dr Irfan, along with his team, conducted training of doctors and nurses of public and private hospitals from southern Punjab during the two-day symposium.

The objective of the symposium was to train doctors and sensitise nurses for better care of babies and to reduce the ratio of mortality rate.

Dr Stephen, from Germany, delivered a lecture on curing neonatal (new born infant) without medication through cleanliness. Dr Irfan Waheed, a known medical practitioner of Children’s Hospital, Lahore, informed the audience about the importance of breastfeeding. “Breastfeeding should be started as early as possible.”

Published in The Express Tribune, November 30^th, 2019.