President Alvi calls on society to help female medical graduates become practising doctors
(WorldNews Pakistan)

President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi on Friday bemoaned the fact that in a country like Pakistan that had been facing an extreme shortage of trained human resource in the field of health, over 80 per cent of the female doctors did not join the profession after completing their medical education. He urged society to help those female doctors utilise their education to help the suffering humanity in the country. He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the fifth biennial conference of the Indus Health Network (IHN), titled ‘ICON 2020’, held at a local hotel. “After the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s ruling that admissions to medical colleges should be given purely on...