SIALKOT: The Khwaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College (KMSMC) has announced a weeklong national health conference titled ‘Medicon Week’ here from March 18 to 23 aiming at providing opportunities to doctors and medical students to share their experiences and views.

Principal Prof Dr Zafar Ali Chaudhry revealed this while addressing a press conference at his office on Wednesday.

He said 13 different training workshops of doctors and medical students would be held during the weeklong conference. As many as 60 senior doctors from across Pakistan will deliver lectures about latest technology in medical treatment.

The principal said referral of serious patients from Sialkot to Lahore and other cities had decreased by 50pc during the last three years since the establishment of the KMSMC in 2011.

He claimed the college would generate around 200 house jobs till 2016, besides providing wide-ranged, better and advanced medical health cover to the people of Sialkot.

He pledged to establish a separate outdoor ward at Govt Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital for providing free medical treatment to local journalists and their families.

He said it would soon be made a 550-bed hospital, as the Punjab government had released Rs4 billion for this purpose.