session of the symposium, Professor Mumtaz said this kind of training would help to improve services in the new specialty of Urogynaecology. He informed the participants that he was running the urogynaecology clinic at Benazir Bhutto Hospital and Holy Family Hospital for the last one year.
He said that organising joint academic activity has provided an opportunity to health professionals to discuss and share the experiences with regard to complications of Gynae and Urology. He said the aim of Urogynaecology practice is to improve the care of patients with Urogynaecology problems in collaboration with other care providers. He said purpose of the symposium was to take further steps for the development of specialty of Urogynaecology in public sector hospitals so that urologists and gynaecologists can have sufficient knowledge and expertise to deal with these patients in a better way.
The chief guest also addressed the participants and informed them that she visited Holy Family Hospital and Benazir Bhutto Hospital on a number of occasions. She said that she was more than happy with the health services being rendered by the health experts at the two hospitals.
Speaking on the occasion, Professor Umar said the symposium would provide participants an endeavour of international standard and the activity would help a lot to inform, promote and globalise outstanding technological innovation, knowledge and research. He said the live workshop would especially help the young doctors to make an early debut on the national and international stages and will also open gateway and build a bridge between the Urologists and Gynaeclogiests of Pakistan by sharing their experiences.
After inaugural session, as many as four live surgical procedures related to minimally invasive treatment of female urinary incontinence was telecasted from Barbagli Institute Arezzo Italy, a well reputed hospital in Italy to train the young doctors on use of modern techniques to treat urinary incontinence in women.