PIMA Convention begins today
Islamabad:March 25:Over 1,000 physicians and surgeons including female health experts and medical students from all over Punjab are expected to converge at Faisal Mosque for the 15th Biennial Convention of Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) beginning here on March 25.
Over 30 experts will present their papers and deliver lectures at the two-day convention. The topics will include recent trends in management of different diseases including Hepatitis C, hypertension, pain management, diabetes, heart failure, surgical site infection and headache, judicious use of antibiotics, and polio eradication.
The convention also includes a seminar on medical ethics comprising lectures on Islamic code of ethics for doctors, competencies of a Muslim doctor, and patients’ rights.
