Healthy lifestyle can helpprevent breast cancer

LAHORE

Punjab University’s Academic Staff Association (PUASA) on Wednesday organised an awareness seminar in which speakers urged women to ensure self-examination and adopt a healthy lifestyle to avoid breast cancer.

The wife of Punjab Governor Mrs Parveen Sarwar, PUASA President Prof Dr Mumtaz Anwar Chaudhry, Secretary Javed Sami, faculty members and students from various departments attended the event.

Addressing the seminar, Mrs Parveen Sarwar said women must ensure self-examination so that the disease could be detected at an early stage. She said if women would be healthy, they would be able to look after their families in a good way.

She said there was utmost need to create awareness against breast cancer among rural women and provide them facilities. She urged the participants to create awareness among their family members and friends so that they could cope with the fatal disease timely.

In her keynote address, Dr Anisa Fatima said women should give more attention to their health than make-up and dresses. She said women should avoid unhealthy lifestyle and fast food that were one of the causes of breast cancer. She advised them to eat fruits, vegetables and nuts to keep themselves healthy. She urged the girls to take care of themselves for the sake of people who were connected to them.

Prof Dr Umbreen Javed said women should dedicate five minutes to themselves a month to cope with the menace. Dr Firdous-e-Barin said around 90,000 women suffer from breast cancer every year; therefore, women must examine themselves for timely detection of breast cancer as it was the only way to survive.

Later, Mrs Parveen Sarwar and PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad led an awareness walk against breast cancer from Al-Raazi Hall to the VC office.

Moot on chemistry: The 18th international and 30th national conference on recent trends in chemistry was held at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) here on Wednesday.

According to a press release, a large number of national and international experts representing government agencies, civil societies, academia, public and private sectors participated in the conference and presented 230 research papers on a wide range of themes related to recent trends in Chemistry included 190 oral and poster presentations along with 40 plenary and invited speeches.

Rector UMT Dr Muhammad Aslam, Director General UMT Abid HK Shirwani, Dr Ellene Tratras (USA), Dr Zeliha Selamoglu (Turkey), Dr Wang Yan (China), Dr Muhammad Abbas (Austria), national researchers and scientists, students and teachers attended the conference.

In his inaugural address, Dr Muhammad Aslam said this initiative provided a solid platform to participants around the globe to share their research findings with one another and to discuss their ideas in relation to the vast field of Chemistry.

Dr Ellene Tratras from Eastern Michigan University USA and other experts shared their thoughts and said Pakistani scientists had great potential.

The conference comprised of technical sessions such as Organic, Inorganic, Physical, Analytical, Environmental, Natural Product, Material, Nano, Nuclear, Biological, Nutritional, Agricultural, Electro, Industrial, Polymer, Textile and Computational Chemistry etc.

convocation: A meeting to review arrangements for Punjab University’s 129th convocation was held here on Wednesday.

The convocation will be held on December 28. The meeting presided over by PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad Akhter was briefed on various measures being taken to successfully organise the convocation of the university.

The VC also instructed the officials to ensure the best arrangements for convocation. Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Convener of Convocation Coordination Committee Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, Controller of Examinations Muhammad Rauf Nawaz, deans of various faculties and convocation coordination committee members attended the meeting.