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HYDERABAD, Jan 23: A three-day symposium which concluded on Monday recommended establishment of a registry to keep record of diagnosis and treatment of cancer cases.
The symposium on “Cancer: A global challenge”, organized by the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, also called for launching cancer research projects.
It stressed the need for initiating research on bladder, chest, lungs and mouth cancer and demanded ban on use of betel nut, gutka, tobacco and naswar.
It also called for measures to control pollution and ensure supply of clean drinking water.
The symposium recommended establishment of a separate hospital and institute for cancer with branches in each district of the province.
Over 200 papers were read at the symposium which was attended by over 1,500 doctors.
Speaking on the occasion as chief guest, Dow University of Health Sciences (Karachi) vice-chancellor Prof Masood Hameed Khan said his university was ready to cooperate with the Liaquat university in providing a software for assessment of papers.
He stressed the need for establishing more medical and general universities in Sindh.
Prof Khan said the basic purpose of a medical university was, and should be, to ensure best treatment to patients. He hoped that Liaquat and Dow universities would produce outstanding medical consultants, researchers and nursing and paramedical staff to provide health cover to the people of Sindh.
LUMHS vice-chancellor Prof Jan Mohammad Memon said there was a need for cooperation between the two universities to enhance the scope of medical education and research.
He congratulated scholars who presented papers at the symposium.
He praised Prof Abdul Sattar Memon and Prof Shahzad Laghari for organizing the symposium.
Prof Memon said a cancer registry would be established at the Liaquat university and departments of X-ray and radiology would be expanded and streamlined for cancer diagnosis.
He said the university would invite international experts to conduct research on cancer.
SEMINAR: A PhD research scholar of the Sindh University, Mohammad Ali Talpur, has completed his study on “Cotton export policies in 90s under WTO — a case study of Pakistan and China”.
In his presentation at the university on Friday, the research scholar said that research work was aimed at addressing agriculture-related issues in relations to the WTO.
He said that agriculture was the largest sector of Pakistan’s economy, employing half of its labour force and contributing one quarter to the GDP.
He pointed out that export of cotton, cotton-based products, rice and fruits fetch about 70 per cent of total export earnings.
Mr Talpur said that the land area of Pakistan was 80 million hectares of which 25.2 per cent was cultivated area, 10 per cent cultivated waste and 3.6 per cent under forests.
He said that about 60 per cent of the total area consisted desert, mountains and was not used for agricultural and forestry purpose.
The scholar said that cotton was a major source of foreign exchange earnings.
He said that it constituted a large part of Pakistan’s agriculture sector accounting for 10.5 per cent of value-added in agriculture, one fifth of work force in agriculture and one half of the value of marketable surplus.
