Trade Chronicle March - April 2017

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Promotion of alternative medicine stressed
Speakers at a meeting of Shura
Hamdard Karachi chapter urged the
government to promote Alternative
Medicine in the country in order to
solve the problem of public health
care. The meeting was held on March
09, 2017 on the theme: “Public health
care and government responsibilities”,
presided over by Justice (Rtd) Haziqul
Khairi at a local hall.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Dr.
Hakim Abdul Hannan, Vice
Chancellor, Hamdard University said
that the solution of public health care
issue laid in the implementation and
promotion of alternative medicine
particularly of Unani Medicine,
which was based on herbs, plants and
other halal things and could be used
with confidence in Islamic countries.
'Unani Medicine is comparatively a
cheaper treatment, its herbs and
medicinal plants can easily be grown
in the country thus it is economically
saver of foreign exchange and suit to
our weather and temperament', he said
adding; 'If we pay heed to the
promotion of Unani Medicine we
would not only be able to solve our
health problems but also to help other
countries in solving their health issues'.
He said it was Hamdard who played
key role in introducing Unani
Medicine in the country, regulating its
medicines and standardizing its
education by taking it up to higher
degrees as many students had done
their M.Phil and Ph.D at Faculty of
Eastern Medicine, Hamdard
University.
'A seed – QUINOA, brought from a
country of Latin America, is being
cultivated at the botanical garden of
Hamdard University which is rice -
like in taste and equal to the size of
millet (bajra). It is a good substitute of
rice, can be grown in seltish water and
useful for diabetic patients, Prof.
Hakim Hannan informed. Zubaida
Mustafa, a veteran journalist said that
Prof. Dr. Hakim Abdul Hannan, Vice Chancellor, Hamdard University addressing the theme:
“Public health care and government responsibilities”, under the presiding over of Justice (Rtd)
Haziqul Khairi at Shura Hamdard at a local hall. Zubaida Mustafa, a veteran journalist and
Mrs. Sadia Rashid, President, Hamdard Foundation Pakistan are also present on this occasion.
health care was a fundamental human
right, even W.H.O stressed on every
country to give this right to its citizen
but, in our country access to health
care was a big issue. A big and costly
hospital was useless for the poor, she
said adding that in a country where
less than 0.25per cent of GDP was
being spent on health care creation of
such situation was obvious. There
was one nurse on 4 doctors in our
country and the main purpose of
doctors now was to make money, she
said.
Haq Nawaz Akhtar said that there
were only two countries – Cuba and
Eretria in the world where healthcare
was provided from birth to death by
their respective governments.
Mrs. Sadia Rashid, President,
Hamdard Foundation Pakistan said
that the councils of Unanani Medicine
and Homeopathy were already
formed and working in the country
with enough budget.
Justice (Rtd) Zia Pervez said that he
was working on a plant Spirulinoe,
which grew from moss and had both
quality of food and medicine. Col ®
Mukhtar Ahmed Butt said there were
74 doctors on a population of 100,000
and doctor mafia was also there to
plunder the people and in such a
situation how healthcare facilities
could be provided to the people.
Zafar Iqbal said that minimum
amount was allocated to the health
sector that's why this sector was on the
receiving end. Hospitals of
Alternative Medicine, with complete
equipment and medical machinery,
should be constructed in each town
and city to provide health care
facilities to the masses. Naushaba
Khalil was of the view that alternative
medicine was good and government
should utilize it to solve the problem
of health in the country. Specialist
doctors who were taking big
consultation fees should be brought to
accountability, she added.
Prof. Muhammad Rafi said that
fluorides of tooth paste, being sold in
the market, were of inferior quality,
people should use miswak or its paste
for their oral health.
Com (Rtd) Sadeed Anwar Malik said
that alternative medicine can be used
in providing health care, but awareness
about this system of treatment must be
given to public and research on its
medicines be carried out.
Dr. Abubakar Shiekh was of the
opinion that the quota of male and
female students in medical colleges
be reviewed as the girls after getting
medical degrees got married and
stayed at homes, so for them it has
become a finishing degree. Usman
Damohi and Khalid Ikramullah Khan
and Prof. Dr. Akhtar Saeed Siddiqui
also spoke.
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