Cardiac Transplant Surgeon, Dr Asif Hasan said it was high time to enhance professional capacities of health-care providers in general and cardiac as well transplant surgeons in particular. He also reiterated need to improve existent health infrastructure in the country to tackle these cases.
The senior surgeon, based in England, said most of the congenital cardiac diseases are being treated with much improved outcome in developed world and Pakistan too holds all chance to improve professional capacities of its physicians as well as surgeons to perform required interventions saving a large number of affected babies. "Parents should have no worry anymore here looking for treatment of their children," said Dr Asif Hasan.
Dr Zehra Kapadia, from Houston, USA, in her presentation during a session on Oncology said many of the women in the third world are a silent victim of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is second leading cause of death after breast cancer in women. She said mentioning that several modern techniques and treatment options are available to prevent these deaths.
Dr Amir Liaquat of Kiran Hospital and Dr M. Noor Soomro of Civil Hospital Karachi also made their respective contributions to the subject.
Discussing medical education, Dr Nighat Huda from College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) and Professor Lubna Baig of Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) stressed the need to update medical education curriculum and structure on modern lines.
The two senior medical educationists said many of the local doctors cannot compete with those getting medical education in developed parts of the world as their education is not on right track nor they are included in organised training programs.
Speakers addressing the session on orthopaedic said many of the bone related diseases get complicated despite timely and proper diagnosis as little attention is paid for their treatment. Sessions on gynaecology, anaesthesia, and an update on arthroplasty, bio ethics, plastic surgery, gastroenterology, endocrinology and diabetes, family medicine, infectious diseases were also attended by a large number of doctors from across the country.