January 29, 2006	Sunday	Zilhaj 28, 1426

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NAWABSHAH, Jan 28: People’s Medical College in Nawabshah, Chandka Medical College in Larkana and Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical College in Sukkur would soon be affiliated with the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences in Jamshoro.

This was disclosed by Professor Naushad Ahmed Shaikh, Sindh health secretary, while speaking at a symposium in the Latif Hall on Saturday.

Dr Shaikh said the government was aware of the problems faced by faculty and students.

He said a summary had been forwarded to make the colleges part of the LUMHS.

He said progress and prosperity of any country was related to healthy society for which good doctors were required.

Dr Shaikh said medicine was an ever growing science and it changed so quickly that doctors had to make special efforts to keep them abreast with latest technologies.

Professor Adeebul Hassan Rizvi, director of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), while talking about transplantation said it was the ultimate therapy to save a person from an organ failure.

He said people in developing countries did not donate their body parts generously due to cultural norms and differences in economic and social attitudes.

He said the country’s health expenditure was in-between 0.1 per cent to four per cent of GNP as compared to 15 to 30 per cent in developed countries.

Emphasizing the need of health education, he said rich countries of the Middle East suffered due to lack of education.

Prof Rizvi said that social motivation and infrastructure to support transplantation was absent in many of these countries.

He said that in Pakistan more than 40 per cent renal transplants were from paid donors.

He said the developing countries were confronted with problems of unavailability of drugs and their high prices.

Dr Rizvi emphasized the need to alleviate poverty, improve education and increase transplantation in the public sector.

Professor Mohammad Awais from Lahore, Professor Abdul Basit, director of the Baqai Institute of Endocrinology in Karachi, Professor Allah Bachayo Memon, dean faculty of medicine and allied sciences at LUMHS, Professor Dr S. Akram, chairman of the department of health sciences at the Dow University of Health Sciences, Professor Ghulam Ali Memon, dean faculty of surgery and allied sciences at the LUMHS, and others read papers on various topics in the symposium.

KILLING: One person was killed and another was seriously injured when their motorcycle was hit by a trailer at the National Highway near Sakrand on Saturday.

Nazar Mohammad Siyal, 45, died on the spot while Sharafuddin Unnar, 40, was seriously injured.