Senior health professionals and foreign medical graduates on Friday advised medical students and young doctors to concentrate on career development and enhancement of their professional skills by applying for advanced medical courses within the country and abroad to serve ailing humanity instead of moving permanently to developed countries in search of greener pastures.
"Wealth, career development and respect in the society comes from having faith in Allah Almighty, hard work and qualities of honesty and integrity. There are scores of professionals who not only gained fame and wealth but also respect by living within their country and serving their poor countrymen. If anybody wishes to go abroad, he should do so for his professional development and aim to return back to Pakistan, which helped him or her to become a respectable medical professional in the society" said Dr Wasey Shakir, consultant neurologist and Assistant professor at Aga Khan University while addressing career guidance seminar here.
The seminar was part of the inaugural ceremony of the 16th Biennial Provincial Convention of Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) Sindh which started on Friday with a number of activities including seminars, scientific sessions, public awareness activities and conferences. The formal inauguration of the biennial convention was during a separate ceremony which was attended by former ambassador of Pakistan to United Nations Abdullah Hussain Haroon, who paid rich tribute to PIMA for holding provincial and national conventions regularly for the guidance of young graduates and said the Association was serving the country by providing excellent learning opportunities to young medical graduates.
Dr Wasey Shakir who is a foreign qualified health professional and researchers, told the participants of the seminar that every year thousands of medical graduates from developing countries visit UK, United States and other developed countries for their professional development and learn advancements in the field of health sciences but most of them return to their homelands where their people await them to rid them of misery and disease.
"Unfortunately, our medical students having only wealth in their mind, go abroad after becoming experts in the field of health sciences, they start their careers in developed countries while their own people die at the hands of diseases and ignorance. I'm asking you not to go abroad but instead of serving others, you should come back to homeland and serve your own people" he advised young graduates.-PR