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Monday, November 23, 2009
By our correspondent
KHAIRPUR: A two-day national conference on microbiology, the first of its kind, started here at the Shah Abdul Latif University on November 21.
The conference is organised by the Department of Microbiology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, in collaboration with the Pakistan Society for Microbiology and Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad.
Chairperson of the National Commission of Human Development Nafisa Shah Jillani was the chief guest during the first day of the conference.She said the swine flu virus and other bacterial diseases, including Hepatitis, were serious threats to human lives. “Hence, universities and research institutes should address such problems,” she said.
“Pakistan is rich in agricultural products, but plant diseases are affecting the agricultural produce and farmers are worried about such diseases.” She said that microbiologists should concentrate their research on such issues and there was a need for dynamic and focused research.
She said the government was playing a vital role in making strategic changes in this regard and said that there was more funding available for research than the previous years. She said though the USAID and other donor agencies were providing funding against some scholarship programmes, enhancement of funds was the need of the hour to meet the challenges.
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