‘Exercise can save from diabetes’

LAHORE

Post Graduate Medical Institute/Lahore General Hospital (PGMI/LGH) Principal Prof Ghayasun Nabi Tayyab has urged upon the young doctors to upgrade their knowledge and get hands-on training regarding various diseases.

He said that diabetes was the fast spreading disease in today’s modern. He said that overeating, sedentary lifestyle and inheritance were the basic reasons of diabetes.

“The people should change their lifestyle, eating habits and make exercise part of their routine activities to avoid such diseases,” he said while distributing certificates among the doctors at the conclusion of two-day diabetes medical education workshop, according to a press release issued here on Wednesday. A large number of doctors from different departments of Lahore General Hospital attended the workshop.

Dr Imran Hassan, Dr Muhammad Asim Hameed, Dr Ehsan Farooq and Dr Ahsan Ullah apprised the participants of the symptoms and methods to treat diabetics.

Prof Ghayas un Nabi Tayyab and other medical experts said that diabetes was the basic cause of different diseases like blindness, renal failure, gangrene and heart diseases for which mass awareness campaign as well as training of clinicians was essential. They said that a good  clinician could treat diabetic patients as accurate prescription of medicines by the doctor played vital role in cure of the disease.

Finance students: Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said an end to usury will result in the independence of mankind from the cabal of banking families who are controlling the political elite of the world.

He was addressing the orientation ceremony of Hailey College of Banking and Finance on Wednesday, according to a press release. On this occasion Registrar Prof Dr Liaqat Ali, Principal HCBF Prof Dr Mubbsher Munawar Khan, Principal Law College Dr Shazia Naureen Qureshi, Principal Hailey College of Commerce Prof Dr Hassan Mobeen Alam, faculty members and a large number of newly-admitted students were present on the occasion.

Addressing the ceremony, Dr Mujahid Kamran urged the students to work hard to develop a system that could replace usury system, which had been prohibited by Islam and Christianity. He said the cabal of banking families was controlling the political system and leadership of the United States and the United Kingdom. He said around 1.5 billion Muslims had no share in creation of new knowledge. He said the world was facing instability only because of these two problems. He said more than 95 percent of US media was owned by only 6 corporations and that’s why things against their interest were neither published nor broadcasted by elite media institutions.

He said the average spending of the world on education was 5 percent of GDP while Pakistan was spending less than 2 percent on education. He said that Pakistan’s total GDP was around 250 billion dollars while it was spending around 0.2 percent on R&D and less than 2 percent on education. He said: “There was abundance of natural resources in Muslim countries but because of our ignorance, we did not have the capabilities to take benefit of these resources”. He said Indian intelligence agency RAW was behind the recent Quetta attack since it wanted to destabilise the region. He advised the students to adopt reading habits and master their subjects.

Principal Hailey College of Banking and Finance Prof Dr Mubbsher Munawar welcomed the students and detailed the progress made in the college.

Later, PU VC Dr Mujahid Kamran inaugurated the Journal of Banking, Insurance and Business Management, an initiative of Prof Dr Mubbsher Munawar Khan, to be published after international conference of the college scheduled in December this year.