President Mamnoon Hussain Stresses Upon Simplification Of Treatment Procedure For Chronic Diseases

President Mamnoon Hussain Saturday stressed upon simplifying the treatment procedure of chronic diseases, so that marginalised and low-income strata of the society could also benefit from it.

RAWALPINDI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Feb, 2018 ) :President Mamnoon Hussain Saturday stressed upon simplifying the treatment procedure of chronic diseases, so that marginalised and low-income strata of the society could also benefit from it.

In this regard, he said, other than the government, the medical institutions and professional organizations could focus on these issues. Successful experiments in this respect had also been conducted in various parts of the world including Pakistan.

The president was speaking at 15th International Cardiac Electrophysiology Conference at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology and National institute of Heart Diseases (AFIC & NIHD), said a press release.

He expressed his satisfaction that education and research for the provision of medical facilities was among the priorities of doctors as they were continuously engaged in these matters. The president said diagnosis, treatment and surgery of heart diseases were so much lengthy, complicated and expensive that apart from poor and unemployed even the middle class could not afford these procedures.

One of the reasons behind this was the lack of medical research. The other reason was that the machinery and equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions was imported from abroad which increased the cost of these procedures, he underlined.

The president said "It is imperative for the protection of human life that the standard of medicine and machinery being used for the diagnosis and treatment should be state of the art." Adjutant General Pakistan Army, Lieutenant General Anwar Ali Hyder, Lt.

Gen. Zahid Hmaid surgeon general Director General Medical Services and eminent cardiologist from Pakistan and abroad were present on the occasion. The president noted that the prevalence of heart diseases could be gauged from the figures that every year around one million people lost their lives due to these issues in Pakistan.

According to medical experts, unhealthy lifestyle was also one of its reasons.

"There was a very simple and easy solution to these problems in our cultural traditions i.e. always be happy and also try to keep others happy," he opined.

The president said in his opinion, if the life was spent according to the principles of nature by promoting sincerity and well-being in mutual relation in light of religious teachings, facilitating others and limiting the desires, then many issues of the modern era could be easily resolved.

He stressed upon the cardiologist to also draw the attention of people towards the principles of nature as it would also help in controlling the spread of other diseases due to climatic changes.

The president welcomed the local and foreign cardiologists participating in this international conference and expressed the hope that the conference would be successful in achieving its goals and the deliberations among the eminent experts would provide them an excellent opportunity to benefit from the experiences of each other.

It was also satisfactory to note that the scope of Pakistan Army Medical Corps was not only limited within the country but it had also expanded beyond our boundaries. It has earned goodwill for the country by serving the ailing humanity in different parts of the world under the auspices of United Nations, he added.

He said these accomplishments of Medical Corps were a matter of pride for Pakistan Army and expressed his desire of further expansion in the sphere of its services. Earlier, on arrival, the president was received by Adjutant General Pakistan Army, Lieutenant General Anwar Ali Hyder and Major General Safdar Abbas, Commandant AFIC & NIHD.

President of Royal College of Physician Edinburgh UK, Professor Derrek Bell along with his team and delegates from United State of America, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and more than 360 doctors from across the country attended the conference.