In the inaugural session, two legends in surgery, Professor Ijaz Ahsan and Professor Muhammad Iqbal will be honoured with Professor Ameer-ud-Din Life Time Achievement Award. Chairman Organising Committee, Dr Aamer Zaman Khan told Business Recorder here on Tuesday that the event is aimed at updating the knowledge of participants on surgical issues.
The issues relating to recent advances in surgery, cost effective management techniques with reference to developing countries and transculture aspects of surgery will also be discussed in this moot, he added. A tele-medicine conference will also be held in which surgeons will deliberate on latest techniques in surgery.
A seminar on the topic of 'current issues in the medical profession' will also be held in which principals and medical teachers from all over Pakistan will participate, he added.
During the two-day moot, there will be eight technical sessions in which surgeons will present papers. On February 25, there will be three technical sessions while on February 26, five technical sessions will be held. In these sessions, experts from home and abroad will update the knowledge of participants on various issues in surgery.
He said that this moot would help in increasing understanding, removing differences and eliminating misunderstandings, apart from upgrading knowledge, presenting medical and professional problems and arriving at consensus and their solutions.
To a question, he said that society of surgeons has always been the standard bearer of the medical community, as it has always been in the forefront in every cause. He said that society is striving hard for promotion of cause of surgery, postgraduate training and teaching and is a forum for discussion of problems faced by the public.