More than 40 percent population of Pakistan is engaged with bone relevant disease, which was an alarming situation. Elimination of disease is possible without surgery for only newly born baby, whereas, for adult surgery is compulsory. Instant treatment for injured people of bomb blast, fire incidents, accidents and other harmful happenings was very necessary to avoid orthopaedic. This was stated by Prof. Asadullah Mahar, Chairman Organising Committee a press briefing held of 26th International Pak Orthocon 2012 featuring evolution and innovation in Orthopaedics at a local hotel in Karachi.
The Conference has been organized by Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chandka Medical College of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhuhto Medical University Larkana in Karachi. On the occasion, Dr Manzoor Ahmed Memon, Co-Chairman, Organising Committee; Dr. Zamir Ahmed Soomro, Secretary, Prof. Ali Muhammad Ansari, Patron and Prof. Anisuddin Bhatti Co-ordinator were also present.
Addressing the briefing, Prof. Asadullah Mahar said that the disability ratio was increasing mainly due to traffic mishaps and marriage among cousins. People should avoid marriage with first blood relation and should be very careful while driving and crossing roads. Orthopaedic can take place due to various reasons including deficiency of calcium, vitamin D, fewer intake of milk and due to less exposure of sun rays.
Training of Orthopaedic staff including doctors, nurses and others is need of hour to tackle situation accurately. Trauma center should be establish in every city, where access for citizen should be easy, he said adding that government had establish many center relevant to orthopaedic, which did not get success due to different reasons including deficiency of funds. Timely treatment is necessary this regard.
Dr. Manzoor Ahmed Memon, Co-Chairman said that there were ten pre conference workshops nine at Karachi one at Lahore, which provided hands on training to the junior consultants, specialists, post graduates and other orthopaedic surgeons. Almost 13 foreign speakers were also taking part in this conference from different countries including USA, Germany, Egypt, Canada, Malaysia and UAE, he added.
Mahar further asserted, Foreigners will also express their views, to create awareness among people regarding disease in the shed light of their experiences. There were ten states of art lectures 25 invited lectures 90 free papers and 10 e-posters in this conference, he said.
Chairman expressed that the conference would provide attendees the latest developments and knowledge to orthopaedic community in Pakistan. It would be source of interaction to increase knowledge and clear queries regarding the orthopaedic problems, he added.