LARKANA, Nov 25: Arrangements have been completed for an international ophthalmic symposium at the Chandka Medical College here on Dec 3 and 4. This was stated by the chairman of the organizing committee, Prof Imtiaz Ali Shah, who is also president of the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan, Larkana-Sukkur zone.

Sindh health secretary Prof Naushad A. Shaikh will inaugurate the symposium on “glaucoma”, which is the second major cause of blindness.

Prof Shah said the symposium would focus on various measures for mass awareness and advances in treatment of glaucoma.

A scientific exhibition

will also be held on latest developments in equipment and drugs.

Prominent scholars who are expected to present their papers at the symposium are: Dr Karl Rigal from Austria, Prof Ziauddin Ahmad Shaikh, Prof M. Idrees Adhi, Prof Shahid Wahab, Dr Munir Ahmad Qureshi and Dr Javed Niazi from Karachi, Prof Faiz Mohammad Halepoto, Prof Nazir Ashraf Leghari, Prof Shafi Mohammad Jatoi and Dr Khalid Iqbal Talpur from Hyderabad and Prof Naeemullah, Dr Nadeem Hafeez Butt and Dr Abdul Rashid Qamar from Lahore.

Prof Shah said the society had decided to donate Rs20,000 to the president’s relief fund for earthquake victims.