Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Over 50 health professionals from eight countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia participated in third Virtual Training Courses on rational use of medicines for health professionals in South and Southeast Asia. The course, held successfully in Kunming, was co-sponsored by Department of Commerce of Yunnan, China and Kunming Medical University (KMU), China.
The course was broadcast live online in both Chinese and English language. Thousands of audience watched live broadcast via open link, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Saturday. According to the event organizer KMU, five Pakistanis were among these health professionals. Dr. Somia Iqtadar, Associate Professor of Medicine at King Edward Medical University, Lahore and also General Secretary of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine, expressed her thanks to KMU for hosting such a wonderful training session for everyone.
She added that she learned a lot about principles of antimicrobial use, drug use in special population, ways to minimize drug use errors, national laws and regulations to improve AMS specifications, and rational use of medicine amid COVID-19. ‘We invited eight leading experts from the Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
