KARACHI, Feb 9: The Jinnah Postgraduates Medical Centre (JPMC), is organizing its 39th annual symposium.

The three-day symposium will be inaugurated by Sindh governor Mohammedmian Soomro on 12 Feb in Karachi.

This was announced by director JMPC, Dr Abdul Shakoor Qazi, while briefing newsmen about the salient features of the event to be held under the theme of “Diseases of Modern living”.

Tracing the history of the event which was held in 1963 for the first time, he said the JPMC deserved credited for holding such an event for the first time in the country’s medical history some 39 years ago, and added that since then it had become an annual feature and a number of other medical institutions were following the same tradition.

He said the aim of organizing the symposium regularly was to set up a prestigious forum for presenting the research, besides providing an opportunity for exchange of ideas among health experts .

He said that during the course of the symposium a number of issues relating to medicine, surgery, nursing and paediatrics would be discussed and it was expected to generate a lot of lively debate on the way we lived today. “It is hoped that some concrete proposals for better health facilities will emerge,” he added.

He said experts from every part of the country would contribute and share their knowledge, expertise and experience with their fellow professionals which would elicit positive results for the ailing humanity” he said.

He observed that our lives had become faster with growing accessibility to technology and the process has created number of problems for the people in general.—PPI