25 January 2004	Sunday	02 Zilhaj 1424

LAHORE, Jan 24: A six-day haemodialysis training workshop for doctors and nurses organized by the Lahore General Hospital concluded here on Saturday.

Twelve doctors and six nurses from government and trust hospitals from different districts attended the workshop and received training about the handling of kidney transplantation and dialysis more effectively.

King Edward Medical College/Mayo Hospital board of management chairman Prof Fateh Khan Akhtar distributed certificates among the workshop participants.

Prof Akhtar said the training workshops by teaching hospitals would help doctors to operate dialysis machines effectively at district headquarters hospitals. He said that this exercise would also help reduce patients' load on teaching hospitals.

PGMI/LGH principal Prof Dr Ali Ajwad Shah said doctors and nurses needed to be trained through workshops and refresher courses in the wake of latest research and availability of modern equipment to deal with different diseases. He said the PGMI would also organize training workshops in different disciplines.

LGH Urology Department head Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Akhtar said the department had offered treatment facilities to over 9,000 patients and conducted 2,865 dialysis during the last year.

He said that 14 dialysis machines were working in the urology department out of which six machines had been reserved for Hepatitis B and C patients to ensure that no other patient get infected.