05 October 2004	Tuesday	19 Shaban 1425

HYDERABAD, Oct 4: Professor Dr Jan Mohammad Memon, vice-chancellor of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, has said that patients suffering from eye diseases, who had to go to Karachi in the past, are now being provided with advanced medical facilities in Hyderabad.

Speaking as chief guest at the 12th Annual Hyderabad Ophthalmic Conference, organized by the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan, Hyderabad chapter, at a local hotel on Sunday, he said that the health delivery system regarding eye diseases would be improved further by the LUMHS.

Additional funds were being provided to eye departments throughout the province to provide treatment to the poor at their doorsteps, he added. Speaking on the occasion, Professor Nazir Ashraf Leghari, chairman of the organizing committee, said that the university had held eye camps from time to time in every part of interior Sindh to provide treatment to the poor.

Professor Ziauddin Ahmed Shaikh, chairman of the Ophthalmology Department, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, lauded the services of the Hyderabad branch of the society, which had invited distinguished ophthalmologists from all over the country, as well as abroad, to speak on the important topic.

He specially mentioned the names of Dr Amar Agrawal and his wife, Dr Athiya Amar Agrawal, from India. Prominent among those who attended the conference included professors Mohammad Saleh Memon, Akhtar Jamal, Tariq Aziz and Imtiaz Ali.