BAHAWALPUR: Speakers at a seminar on the World Cancer Day sounded a note of warning about the growing use of intoxicated objects like tobacco, cigarettes, paan and gutka, urging the people, particularly women, to undergo self-diagnostic process to ensure that their bodies are free from any cancer symptom.

The seminar on the cancer awareness was organised by the Bahawalpur Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (BINO) here on Saturday.

BINO Director Dr Shehab Fatmi, MPA Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar, surgeon Farooq Ahmed and others in their speeches dwelt at length on the causes of cancer and exhorted the general public to get them diagnosed in the very early stage as the cancer was curable.

Dr Fatmi said the government should take strict measures to check smoke being emitted from chimneys of industrial concerns, particularly from brick kilns which, by polluting the environment, were injurious to human health.

He called for collective efforts to fight against the cancer to save people from it.

He informed the audience that the BINO was blessed with a mobile cancer screening unit with facilities for mammography, ultra-sonography and stereotactic biopsy for women, who could make its best use even in remote areas during unit’s visits in rural areas.

She said that only three such units were operating all over Pakistan, urging the women to come forward for their chest screening whenever they felt any abnormality within their bodies.

PROTEST: Students of Government Sadiq Egerton College again on Saturday protested at the Islamia University Chowk against the killing of student Fahad Baloch by a bus guard and his accomplices the other day near Khanqah Sharif on Ahmedpur East Road.

The students gathered at the intersection, intercepted a bus and called for the arrest of six accomplices of the arrested bus guard, Abid.

Police officials had the bus released from students, assuring them that the fleeing accomplices of the guard would be arrested.

RALLY: The Jamaat-I-Islami women wing organized on Saturday a rally in connection with the Kashmir solidarity day falling on Sunday (today).

Around 100 burqa-clad women, accompanied by a large number of children, participated in the rally which marched from the JI Headquarters Masjid Al-Haq to Farid Gate.

MPA Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar, Dr Samina Roohi and others addressed the participants.

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2017