{"id":3865,"date":"2016-11-30T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pima.org.pk\/dev\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2017-02-02T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T11:15:46","slug":"pimas-karachi-con-16-concludes-with-issuance-of-guidelines-on-physician-pharma-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pima.org.pk\/dev\/pimas-karachi-con-16-concludes-with-issuance-of-guidelines-on-physician-pharma-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi Con-16 ends with guidelines for Physician-Pharma links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karachi, 27 November 2016: Indus Hospital is going to acquire all regional blood centers in Punjab and two in Sindh in the coming months to meet the safe blood requirement of these provinces while its flagship hospital in Karachi would double its capacity from 150 beds to 300 beds by the end of this year, Prof. Abdul Bari Khan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indus Hospital told a plenary session on the second day of Karachi Con-16, held at a local hotel on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndus Hospital is in the final stages of acquiring of regional blood centers in Multan and Bahawalpur in Punjab while remaining seven such centers would also be acquired by us. We have also applied for acquiring two of the four blood centers of Jamshoro, Sukkur in Sindh to provide safe blood to people of interior of Sindh\u201d, he said while speaking at the medical conference organized by Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA).<\/p>\n

Several scientific sessions including GI and Liver Diseases, Women Health, Neurology, Radiology, Common Problems in Ear, Nose and Throat, Orthopedics and Rheumatology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Common Surgical Problems, Cardio-Metabolic Disorders, and a plenary session on End of Life and Care of a dying person in an Islamic perspective were held where experts of their respective fields of specialization spoke on diseases and their available treatment in the country.<\/p>\n

On the concluding day of the medical conference, PIMA also unveiled its guidelines for doctors on \u2018ethical physician-pharma relationships\u2019, advising doctors to refrain from precious free gifts, lavish tours and accepting money from pharma companies for prescribing their medicines.<\/p>\n

Prof. Bari Khan said when he decided to establish a \u2018free hospital\u2019, people called him mad and \u2018out of my mind\u2019 but now by the grace of Almighty, Indus Hospital is model for entire world and its model is being taught at world medical varsities including John Hopkins.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople said perhaps you would be able to establish a hospital with donations but you won\u2019t be able to run it for free. But with the help of Almighty, we are running this hospital for free in private sector and it is a model being adopted and followed by entire world\u201d, he said adding that Indus was a modern, paperless hospital, which was not denying treatment to any patient due to lack of money.<\/p>\n

He deplored that in Pakistan, many doctors have seen parents who asked them to let their son or daughter die because they could not afford the hefty cost of treatment, surgeries and medicines and added that due to poor state of public health facilities, people were compelled to visit private hospitals where cost of treatment was beyond their affordability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndus Hospital is an example of excellence in healthcare to please Almighty Allah\u201d, he said and informed that the hospital has now Rs. 3.2 billion of annual budget and now even the governments of Punjab, Sindh and other provinces are giving their hospitals to them as they can\u2019t run them as efficiently as Indus Hospital\u2019s management.<\/p>\n

Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed from Riphah International University Islamabad urged doctors to upgrade their knowledge and skills and try to ease the sufferings of patients instead of creating problems for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur patients are lot more aware of health issues as compared to the past. If we can\u2019t ease their problems, which happen sometimes, we should not make their lives more miserable and avoid causing any further harm to them\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

Prof. Amanatullah Zareen, PIMA Women Wing President from Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore said \u201cMultiparty\u201d is a blessing, not a curse and ask the female doctors to tell women that having more children help them remain healthy and fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cA multiparous woman is more healthy than those have one or no children as child births save them from breast, colorectal, uterus and other cancers\u201d, she maintained.<\/p>\n

According to her, uterus of a woman was designed to produce children or fibroids and added that regular births by a child-bearing women prevents her from early mortality.<\/p>\n

Earlier at a plenary session on \u2018Emergency Medicine\u2019, Sindh Secretary Health Dr. Usman Chachar said efforts were underway to improve emergency and healthcare facilities at public sector hospitals and in this regard, collaboration were being made with local private and international organizations to overhaul the health facilities in Karachi and rest of Sindh.<\/p>\n

He said under public private partnerships, hospitals and health facilities were being contracted out while state of the art ambulance service was also being launched in two districts initially to save lives in the first couple of hours after accident and trauma.<\/p>\n

Similarly, health facilities in interior of Sindh were also being improved with the help of private national and international organizations to save precious human lives in case of emergencies, he added.<\/p>\n

Guidelines on Ethical Physician-Pharma Relationship Launched<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pakistan Islam Medical Association (PIMA) at its two-day Karachi also launched guidelines for doctors on ethical physician-pharma relationships to safeguard the interests of patients as no such guidelines were available to them from Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) or Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).<\/p>\n

Guidelines say doctors should not accept expensive gifts like mobile phones, computers, ACs, should not prescribe medicine in return for money or expensive gifts or foreign or local tours and asked them not to accept physician samples for personal use and should not sell them further.<\/p>\n

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