Pakistan Nutrition & Dietetic Society (PNDS) organized its 5th Annual General Body meeting RECBETKY at a local hotel in Karachi. This event was sponsored by Unilever Pakistan (Flora).
The meeting was chaired by Ms Saima Rasheed, General Scretary, PNDS. She presented an annual report of PNDS activities, starting from June 2007 Till June 2008. Sana Shabeer CNE Coordinator presented the list and topics of previously held lectures in the year of 2005,2006 & 2007 and propose new upcoming calendar of PNDS continuing Nutrition Education Forums, and also took feed back from the audience regarding their views and suggestions for CNE’s.
Nilofer F Safdar, President PNDS delivered a talk on Challenges in the Business & Profession of Nutrition & Dietetics” for young dietetic professionals in which she discussed about the situation and numbers of practicing dietetic professional in all over the world including Asia which indicates a very little percentage in country like Pakistan. She also shared her thoughts about the aim of PNDS for accreditation and recognition of Nutrition Profession in Pakistan, as a number of quacks are increasing day by day even on media , who are actually misleading population in regard of providing nutrition information without having proper qualification in Nutrition & Dietetics.
She also encouraged young professionals, how to achieve profession excellence and how to make themselves recognize and prominent in health sector as well in corporate world & also discussed about how to market them selves efficiently in this competitive world. She encouraged the young dietetic professionals to speak up for their rights and for proper designations/positions as what they deserve after completing their post graduation studies.
Dr. Rubina Hakeem Vice President PNDS emphasize the role of PNDS in professional development of their members by different resources like Continuing nutrition education sessions , lectures ,quarterly news letter & Work shops organized by PNDS time to time, young dietitians were also encouraged to write up their research work for publication in the professional research journals & news paper for public awareness about nutrition & dietetics.
Later, Nilofer F Safdar invited PNDS members, Sadia Zubair, Nousheen Aziz, Sara Burney, who have worked and gained experience at corporate sector for sharing their views with the upcoming dietetic students/dietetic professionals.