Healthcare: ‘Teachers should focus on research’

Workshop on basic endoscopy held at Lahore General Hospital.

LAHORE: The provincial government is utilising all the resources available to it to improve health sector facilities, former special assistant to the chief minister Khawaja Salman Rafique said on Sunday.

He was addressing a workshop on Basic Endoscopy at Lahore General Hospital’s Medical Unit One, in collaboration with the Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, the Post Graduate Medical Institute and the Digestive Diseases Foundation.

Rafique said medical teachers should focus on research in addition to mentoring younger colleagues. He said PGMI doctors should work hard to control diseases like measles and dengue.

Prof Ghiasun Nabi Tayyab, the Digestive Diseases Foundation chairman, said PGMI had decided to organise such workshops in future.

He said specialists from several districts were being trained in gastroscopy at the workshop.

College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan Vice President Shoaib Shafi said the college had been organising the workshop regularly. He said, “This hands-on training workshop in gastroenterology,” was first of its kind. He congratulated PGMI/LGH for holding the event.

Later, senior doctors Anwaar A Khan, Nusrat Ullah Chauhdry, Israrul Haque, Shumail Zafar, Kashif Malik and Shahid Sarwar spoke about endoscopy techniques and patterns of various diseases.

Khawaja Salman Rafiq also distributed certificates amongst trainee doctors.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 8^th, 2013.