HARIPUR, Dec 22: It is wrong to say that only women are vulnerable to reproductive diseases, men are too, and need proper attention.

This was observed at the concluding session of a three-day workshop on the management of complications in basic life support here on Sunday.

The workshop, held to train the health staff about mother and neo-natal health, was organized jointly by Save the Children, USA, and the district health department.

Speaking to the participants, Dr Ghazala, head of the gyne department at the Pims Islamabad, said that the male community had remained deprived of any attention regarding their reproductive health-related problems.

Highlighting the reproductive health-related problems faced by a pregnant woman and her baby she emphasized on more concerted and pragmatic efforts to make conception and delivery, safe and risk-free.

Dr Ghazala expressed her concern over the shortage of the gyane staff in the Tehsil -and district-level hospitals and suggested that the house officers of the teaching hospitals should be appointed in rural areas rather than big urban centres.

Speaking on the occasion, the EDO Health Haripur, Dr Farhat Yasmin, spoke about the difficulties the Haripur-based BHUs and DHQ were facing due to the shortage of the gyne staff.

The DCO Jehanzeb Khan had in his address told the audience that since the present govt attached top priority to health it had principally decided to fill the vacant posts of medical officers and specialists on contract basis.