Mufti urges state doctors practising abroad to return
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, June 4
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the delivery system in health sector across the state would be upgraded so that institutes like the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) focus on advancement of research and betterment of healthcare.
He urged upon world-renowned doctors from the state, who were practising abroad to return and provide succour to the people.
Mufti said this after inaugurating the four-day “Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery-2015”, at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) here today.
Renowned surgeons from 30 countries, including the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Brazil, Middle East, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would deliberate and evaluate controversies in bariatric surgeries during the conference, which has been organized by SKIMS, in collaboration with the Centre for Obesity and Diabetes Surgery (CODS), Mumbai.
Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare Asiya Naqash, SKIMS director Showkat Zargar, ACMOMS president Muffazal Lakdawala and IFSO International Faculty and Past President Harry Frydenberg, from Australia, were present on the occasion.
Mufti said the government would welcome setting up of advanced centres of tertiary healthcare so that people do not have to travel to other parts of the country for advanced medical treatment.
He said specialist doctors would be posted at all district hospitals, which would be equipped with latest machines to cater to the needs of the people.
He said the cost of medical treatment in developed nations was on the rise. “People from western countries are finding the prospect of international travel for low-cost medical care to India increasingly appealing. J&K is also suited for medical tourism given the advantages we have in reduced costs for treatment and latest technologies,” he said.
