The Chief Guest Professor Adeeb ul Hassan Rizvi inaugurated the 8th International Symposium of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences on Friday the 29th March 2013 at Lateef Hall LUMHS Jamshoro. The Vice Chancellor LUMHS Professor Mashoor Alam Shah while delivering his welcome address expressed regarding the theme of the Symposium "Health in 21st Century, Today's Vision Tomorrow's Reality" that the disparities in healthcare must be addressed with urgency.
We should set a goal to reduce disparities significantly and provide healthcare for all within this first decade of the 21st Century. Achieving this goal will take radical transformation of healthcare system. He urged the health professionals and their professional organisations, foundations and the private sector to support efforts that look at the 21st Century from beginning to end as an opportunity for better health for all. We must clearly affirm a fundamental moral right of all people to the highest standard of health through preventive care and, when disease and disability do develop, appropriate medical intervention.
He announced that the facility of "Renal Transplantation" shall be made available within six months to one year at Liaquat University Hospital in collaboration with "Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation" under the guidance of Professor Adeeb ul Hassan Rizvi. He added that the availability and fixation of "Artificial Limbs" is a major problem for the people of this area as there are only two centers throughout the country doing this job, LUMHS will Insha'Allah initiate the same in the near future.
While addressing a large number of delegates from all over the country Professor Adeeb Rizvi expressed that it is a great challenge of the 21st Century to provide the best possible universal healthcare at the lowest possible cost, there is continuing worry about basic issues of hygiene, vaccination, nutrition and access to healthcare professionals in the developing world. Obesity and its associated problems, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and orthopedic injury are largely preventable; unintended pregnancies are too frequent and many result in abortions that could have been avoided by stronger efforts to guide and assist our young.