LAHORE - President General Cadre Doctors Association Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh has stressed the need of joint efforts and repeated immunisation campaigns for curbing the menace of polio.
Addressing the participants of a seminar arranged at a school in Mustafabad on Saturday, he said Pakistan could face problems like travel sanctions and end of tourism if the situation worsened.
Assistant Commissioner Cantt Rao Imtiaz, TMO Aziz Bhatti Town Sajjid Musgrave and office bearers of private school owners association attended the seminar.
Dr Sheikh said people were worried about repeated campaigns in Lahore but these were necessary for polio eradication. He assured the vaccine has no harmful ingredient and all rumours are baseless. The only way to eradicate polio is through effective and repeated vaccination campaigns.
He recalled that the government is spending huge money on vaccine campaign and human recourse involved in such drives. He also said that children with slight fever and other minor illness could be given vaccination. Only seriously ill children should not be administered drops but vaccinated once the disease was over, he advised.
LGH nurses urged to serve
humanity
Chairman Board of Management Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Ziaud Din Khawaja has urged nurses to develop such a character to serve the ailing humanity as their second nature.
Speaking at a function held in connection with handing over appointment letters to newly recruited nurses on Saturday, he stressed upon the need of regular improvement in knowledge for improving service delivery and patient care.
Principal PGMI/LGH Prof Anjum Habib Vohra, Principal Nursing School Raeesa Ishtiaq, Deputy Chief Nursing Superintendent Farhat Mahboob, Nursing Superintendent Razia Bano, administrative doctors and nurses attended the function.
Ziaud Din said that BOM has fulfilled its duty by creating vacancies of 135 new nurses and now it was the responsibility of nurses to justify this decision by serving patients with higher spirit and passion setting new standards in their profession.
Prof Vohra said that PGMI and LGH have made new recruitments in accordance with the Chief Minister’s Health Road Map Program. He said that hospital administration has also ensured instalment of new medical equipment and repair of old ones on priority basis.
He said that LGH was the only hospital in country where patients, especially of head injuries, were referred from all over the country. He also welcomed the new appointees and said that Chairman BOM has honoured them by giving appointment letters himself.


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CT scan progress at Mayo Hospital
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LAHORE
Mayo Hospital has made 128 slice CT scan machine operational. The state-of-the-art equipment can do whole body CT scan including CT Angio, virtual colonoscopy, V/Q scan and CT pulmonary artery scans and can be used for diagnosis and treatment purposes.
YDA central leader Dr Salman Kazmi has thanked MS Dr Amjad Shahzad for his efforts to make the latest equipment functional.