Daily Times

Sindh Governor Imran Ismail will inaugurate a global health conference here at a hotel in Karachi on 24th December, which is expected to be attended by over 1,000 medical practitioners from all over the world. Medics International (MI), a US-based non-profit organization with its main focus on global relief and health care having footprint of its work in 55 countries, is organizing the conference as its 10th international convention. The MI being a United Nations accredited body has been providing humanitarian and health care work in countries like Burkina Faso, Haiti, Greece, Iraq, Tanzania, and Pakistan. The upcoming convention will mark the silver jubilee of the foundation of the MI by a group of like-minded expatriate Pakistani physicians in New York who were the graduates of medical colleges across Pakistan. The MI was founded at the basement of a residence in NY and quite soon it emerged as a global health care relief organization. With participation of over a 1,000 medical professionals from United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Germany, Sweeden, Turkey, Iraq and UAE, the upcoming convention is going to be one of the biggest conferences Pakistan has ever seen on the subject of health care, medicine, and related fields. Many social events will also be held on the sidelines of the conference such as a Mushaira at Mohatta Palace in Karachi featuring literary elites Iftekhar Arif, Dr Pirzada Qasim and Manzar Bhopali.