Countries of the region can benefit in medical education and research through SAARC international conferences, SAARC Surgical Care Society President Narendra Pinto said Thursday. Pakistan College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSP) Regional Centre Lahore hosted a dinner in honour of the delegates of the SAARC International Surgical Conference, which was attended by the presidents and senior surgeons from SAARC countries, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. CPSP Vice President Professor Khalid Masood Gondal threw light on the role of CPSP in medical education and research at local and international levels, and welcomed the huge participation of delegates from SAARC countries. Pinto said the international conference was a platform for the region’s people to benefit from each other. He added that medical research was a common priority of the region. He thanked Professor Gondal, Professor Abdul Majeed Chaudhry, Professor Aamer Zaman Khan and members of the Society of Surgeons of Pakistan for extending such a warm welcome to the foreign delegates. Chief Guest of the ceremony, University of Health Sciences Vice Chancellor Hussain Mubashar Malik and lieutenant general (r) Afzaal Ahmed appreciated the role of CPSP in higher medical education.
‘Baba Farid Chair’ at PU Punjabi Dept: Punjab University Department of Punjabi organised the International Punjabi Mushaira in the Sherani Hall of the Oriental College. Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran presided over the event. The VC said such an event would help promote the Punjabi language. Upon Dr Asmatullah Zahid’s request, the VC announced the establishment of the “Baba Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar Chair” at the Punjabi Department.
NEW IMAGE-PROCESSING SOFTWARE: PUCIT faculty members and Image Processing Researchers claim to have developed software which can be used to remove various types of bars and fences from images and pictures.
The team of researchers, including lecturers Shahid Farid and Hassan Khan, are working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dr Arif Mahmood. This image de-fencing software has outperformed existing fence-removal software by significant margins and was no doubt, currently, the best-known software in the world. Even the existing state-of-the-art image editing softwares, such as Adobe Photoshop, do not have this feature.
