Provincial Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare and Population Welfare Dr. Jamal Nasir attended the closing ceremony of the two-day International Endoscopy and Spine Workshop organized by Pakistan Society of Neurosurgeons as a special guest. Apart from Pakistan, medical experts from Britain, China, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt participated in the conference. In the conference held at Farooq Teaching Hospital, Islamabad, there was a detailed discussion regarding modern medical research and technology and experts also presented research papers.
Dr. Khaliq-ul-Zaman, Dr. Sami El-Mursi, Dr. Musa Ibrahim, Dr. Rubina Ahmed and MS Farooq Hospital Dr. SaadHaroon also spoke in the workshop.
Speaking on the occasion, Provincial Minister Dr. Jamal Nasir said that the Punjab government has utilized modern medical trends in government hospitals in a short period of time and regular revamping of a large number of government hospitals has been done. He said that Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi is being reconstructed at a cost of 3.2 billion rupees and this hospital is being converted into a modern hospital. He said that the same model has been introduced in the hospitals located in Lahore and other cities and these hospitals are being revamped and all the work is being done at a speed that is unprecedented in the history of Pakistan.
