07 February 2005	Monday	27 Zilhaj 1425

LAHORE, Feb 6: Indian doctors performed surgical procedures on deserving kidney patients in the Shaikh Zayed Hospital on Sunday.

The operations were shown through closed-circuit television to participants in a workshop, organized in connection with the first three-day international urological conference starting at a hotel here from Monday (today).

Senate chairman Muhammad-mian Soomro will inaugurate the conference while Federal Health Minister Naseer Ahmad Khan and Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed will be the chief guests.

Some 1,000 urologists from all over the world are participating in the conference organized by the Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons (PAUS).

Indian doctors attended the Basant festival on Saturday night, PAUS secretary-general and the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) principal Prof Dr Sajjad Husain said on Sunday.

The Indian surgeons were taken to historical monuments of Lahore after the operations in the Shaikh Zayed Hospital where Pakistani urologists also assisted them, Prof Husain said.

He said the basic purpose of holding this conference was to update the knowledge of local doctors and benefit from the experience of renowned urological surgeons. He said the conference would also help introduce the latest technology and methods for the treatment of diseases of urology and kidney transplant.