Achieveing sustainable health in era of Covid pandemic

Bahawalpur :Health and Safety Society, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur in collaboration with Faculty of Pharmacy observed World Health Day 2021 by organizing first International Virtual Health Conference on achieving sustainable health in the era of Covid pandemic by bridging health care professionals and highlighting emerging trends related to advancements in the health sector nationally and Internationally to address the global health issues with a principal focus on COVID Pandemic. Inaugural session started with the address of Vice Chancellor, Engr. Prof. Dr. Athar Mahboob. He emphasized on the fact that the world is facing many health challenges but the first and foremost is the deadly Covid Pandemic, but beyond that there are challenges that depend on issues like nutrition, clean water and safe and healthy environmental, there are other challenges like Cancer, AIDS and many yet unforeseen pandemics that will arise in the future. He said IUB Health and Safety Society and especially students are performing an exceptional Job in spreading the awareness word and eventually creating a strong advocacy for developing the healthcare, as much as possible. Prof. Dr. Naveed Akhtar, Dean Faculty of Pharmacy in his address, appreciated the tremendous progress the Islamia University of Bahawalpur is making especially in health domain. He admired the efforts of IUB Health and Safety Society in this regard. He asserted that to maintain a healthy nation is absolutely inevitable in order to make progress. So physical and mental health of every person on this planet should be a mutual concern for us all. Being health care professionals, it is our duty to eradicate the existing health issues with every possible resource and make strategies to deal with the future concerns. This type of conference is need of the community now because many health issues are arising like fire and we have to compete those alongside the war with Covid-19 pandemic. Prof. Dr. M. Asadullah Madni, Advisor IUB Health and Safety Society in his said during corona virus pandemic, health issues have gotten to a new peak. So it is need of the hour to educate the community in every possible way. He ensured that in near Future, IUB Health and Safety Society will be organizing such conferences on the ground level as well. The international keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Zaheer ud Din Babar from University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom in his keynote address shared his insight on debunking the myths and permeating the unbiased information to the public regarding the epidemic and vaccines to strengthen the healthcare system in developing countries. He highlighted the issues like vaccine hesitancy, prevention and mitigation of COVID-19. He emphasized that, to bring advancement in health sector, students should synthesize information from journals and other legitimate sources and provide information to the consumers and public. Scientific session comprised of eight renowned international and national speakers highlighted the global health concerns like cancer prevention to cancer advocacy by Dr. Christos Tsagkaris, sustainable diet for better health outcomes by Dr. Hina Iqbal, expected burden of diseases due to Covid Pandemic by Dr. Sheikh Safeena Sidiq, the role of pharmacist in promoting health by Prof. Dr. Erwin Faller, antibiotics consumption/surveillance and emerging antibiotic resistance, evidences from Pakistan by Dr. Iram Malik, role of stake holders in overcoming vaccine hesitancy by Dr. Samar Fahad, impact of Covid-19 on antibiotic resistance surge in the community by Dr. Muhammad Bilal and multiplexing surface coated nano-tracer for protein harvesting: an early cancer detection technique by Dr. Murtaza Hassan. Second scientific session comprised of five renowned international and national speakers who shared their insights on emerging topics like science beyond boundaries: a pharmacist Lld approach in Covid Pandemic by Dr. Asim Masoom Zubair and Dr. Faizan Akram, adverse event following immunization by Fahmida Aslam and address of Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed and Dr. Hamad Masood.