The government of Pakistan will provide a platform to international doctors for bringing their ideas, expertise and technology in the country, said Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari, Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis while addressing the 10th International Medical Conference organized by the Medics International.
He said the government will ensure facilitation to the doctors for transportation of medical equipment in the country to provide advance medical services to the people. The Overseas Ministry has signed a joint venture with Federal Ministry of Health amounting Rs30 million establish an institute which will provide best services to the overseas doctors in Pakistan, he added.
He encouraged Medics International and the doctors to promote medical tourism in the country to provide advance health services to the people. Another milestone has been achieved by the government that the EOBI department has been shifted from the Sindh government to the federal government to ensure expansion and better facilitation to the pensioners. The federal government had enhanced the monthly pension to Rs8500/- each and aimed to further enhance its value to Rs.15000/- in future.
Highlighting the efforts of the PTI government, he said the government can’t change the system in just 15 months. “Even we are still hard surviving, and we need support of Overseas Pakistanis to make new Pakistan,” he said, and welcomed the international doctors and highlighted the Medics International efforts in promoting health services in the country. He encouraged the international doctors to bring in their expertise, ideas and best practices in the sectors of health, medicine and education in Pakistan so that, we can enhance our capacity to bring health reforms in the country.
The other distinguished guests included Dr Bagher Larijani, Deputy Minister of Medical Education of Islamic Republic of Iran; Dr Haseeb Athar, Chairman, Federal Public Service Commission; Lt Gen (r) Dr Imran Majeed, Vice Chancellor, National University of Medical Sciences; Dr Badshah Zaidi, Dr Wajih Rizvi, Founder Medics International, Dr Huma Naqvi, Global President, Medics International, Dr Shabih Zaidi, Global Summit Chair.
Dr Bagher Larijani, Deputy Minister of Medical Education of Islamic Republic of Iran said at the inaugural session of the two-day 10th International Medical Conference 2019 organized by Medics International in Islamabad, that Medics International has expanded by the time and is going on the right direction for expansion, research, education and health services in the field of medicine. MI has the scope to engage with other nationals and groups to establish a strong network for expansion of medicines field and to support the people across the globe.
In his welcome speech on the occasion, Dr Shabih Zaidi, the MI’s Global Summit Chair, said that the MI had been providing health care-related relief services in such war-torn zones of Iraq and Syria where world renowned relief organizations like Doctors without Borders had yet to get access. He said that the MI had already established a virtual university to assist further medical education by deserving students all over the world. MI’s Founder Dr Wajih Rizvi said on the occasion that the Medics International had carried out massive health care-based relief work in Pakistan whenever the country had faced a major natural calamity including earthquakes and floods in the recent past years.
