ISLAMABAD: The Health Services Academy (HSA) in collaboration with Dynamic Medical Company (DMC) organized a Medical Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Healthcare on Friday.
Special Technology Zones Authority Chairman Amer Hashmi, ex-Surgeon General of Pak Army, Lt-Gen (r) Asif Mumtaz Sukhera, Health Services Academy VC Prof Dr Shahzad Ali Khan, former Ambassador to China Ms Naghmana A Hashmi, Advisor to GoP on Health Dr Ghazna Khalid, and numerous other professionals from public health sector attended the conference.
Lt-Gen (r) Sukhera delivered inaugural remarks. Later, various speakers from South Korea, Singapore, Norway, Finland, Germany, Turkey, China, and Pakistan delivered their presentations on different themes around genetics. One of the major objectives of this conference was sensitizing the participants, the general public and the government to hereditary or genetic disorders, its timely diagnosis and available treatments.
In his speech HAS VC Dr Khan said that Pakistan is ranked among the countries having high alert of genetic disorders, adding that risk factors associated with the genetic defects are primarily due to cousin marriages. Majorly the increased incidence and prevalence of the genetic disorders are associated with lack of pre-natal testing facilities in the country.
Ms Hashmi said that medical technology is now an inevitable solution to Pakistan’s inclining disease burden and initiating research evidence-based interventions for genetic...
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