3rd Annual Symposium of Emergency Medicine at Ziauddin Hospital, Karachi.
25th Jan 2020, 3rd annual Symposium of Ziauddin Hospital was attended by more than 500 doctors and took part in the struggle to enhance emergency Medicine in Pakistan.
Various subject specialists from all over Pakistan attended the symposium and made it a successful event.
You can read about it at:
Basic Life support training in Kalam:
PSEM, Shifa International and the SDG team in Pakistan had the training of healthcare providers in Kalam. The local Civil Hospital is nicely constructed building, but lacks the expertise and equipment to take care of patients year around.
We taught then the BLS and also the basic emergencies. The BLS was done as hands on training and around 50 people got trained. Our hope is that this place should be good enough to cater to all the patients coming to the hospital, whether it be locals or the tourists.
ELSi collaborating with PSEM:
ELSi is the course that Australian Emergency Physicians have developed for the low resource areas of the world. ELSi and Pakistan society of Emergency Medicine (PSEM) collaborated together to help physicians in rural and urban Pakistan improve the emergency care.
Dr. Farida Khawaja was instrumental to bring the team headed by DR. Alan Tankel to deliver the course and also at the same time develop the local faculty of trainers.
Dr. Junaid Mustafa and Dr. Abdus Salam Khan aloha with their team of local Pakistani doctors have been involved in this actives.
Along the similar lines but a bit advanced course was brought to Pakistan by another Australian Pakistani physicians DR. Rizwan Azhar. Emergency Focus course is a collaboration between Australian and English Emergency doctors who came to Pakistan to teach the emergency procedures.
The following magazine highlights the two parallel activities in Pakistan. We require a lot of trained emergency doctors to create the right impact and improve out mortality and morbidity.
Thanks to Dr. Farida and Dr. Rizwan for their efforts.