Young Surgeons, Physicians Need Specialized Training At Regular Interval

Pakistan producing hundreds of medical graduates every year needs an efficient mechanism to keep them abreast of advancements being made in the field of medicine and associated technologies

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jan, 2019 ) :Pakistan producing hundreds of medical graduates every year needs an efficient mechanism to keep them abreast of advancements being made in the field of medicine and associated technologies.

Experts talking to APP Friday said it was equally incumbent upon the policy makers as well government to make updated medical facilities cost effective and easily accessible to the patients reporting with wide range of treatable ailments.

Acknowledging that "prevention" must be the cornerstone of public health system they reminded that several of the ailments are congenital or heridatary besides changing climatic conditions is a fact that have emerged to be unavoidable.

Prof. Said Quraishi, Vice Chacellor of Dow University of Health Sciences said Pakistan being one the worst affected countries in terms of disease outbreak needs a strong component of trained personnel in the field of medicine and surgery.

"We are also faced with shortage of well trained professionals in the fields of trauma and emergency medicine," he said in reply to a question and particularly referred to restricted availability of trained nurses.

Prof. Adib ul Hasan Rizvi, Director, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, mentioning that the institute had been regularly orgnaizing hands on workshops for young surgeons and technologists, said this was need of hour and can not be ignored at any cost.

"We at SIUT are fully vigilant of the development and progress being made in the fields of curative care and frequently invite experts from abroad to train our doctors," he said.

The pioneer of organ transplantation in Pakistan said international level workshops regularly conducted at SIUT, by acclaimed experts pertaining to different fields of medicine and surgery are open for medical graduates from across the country.

To a query regarding reported brain drain from Pakistan, he said this no more persists and country itself hold alls potential to accomodate well trained professionals.

As for shortage of trained and accomplished professionals in the public sector facilities, he said their salary and service package must match to that being offered in private sector.

Prof. Dr. Anwar Naqvi said there is a paradigm change in the field of surgery and there was urgency to get young doctors and surgeons provided with updated training in the same.

SIUT, he said is a flag bearer and referred to ongoing Minimal Invasive Robotics Surgical Conference and Workshops for young general surgeons, urologists and gyenacologists of the country.

The senior professionals were unanimous in their opinion that robotic surgical procedure considered is not only future surgical technology but also the safest that must be introduced in major tertiary care health facilities.

It was agreed that establishment of increased number of specialist robotic centres in the country can help turn this otherwise expensive technology into a cost effective treatment option for thousands of patients in need of wide range of surgeries.

"This is because it is non invasive," said Dr. Naqvi mentioning that complications associated with invasive surgeries and duration ofhsopital and needed support is also significantly curtailed.