Governor assures support for establishment of medical university.

KARACHI -- Sindh Governor Imran Ismail Tuesday said the government was committed to support medical university envisaged by expatriate Pakistani doctors engaged in series of relief work in the least privileged parts of the country.

Addressing the inaugural session of a three-day 10th International Medical Conference organized by the Medics

International (MI), comprising USA-based senior doctors of Pakistani origin, he said PTI government stands for initiatives meant to benefit masses.

"I, being a representative of the federal government, assure support for the medical university any where in the country you feel is particularly needed," said the governor.

He appreciated that MI has been recognized as the United Nations-accredited global health care relief organization and that it was presently celebrating 25th years of its foundation.

"It is all the more heartening that MI comprising Pakistani medical practitioners are keen to establish a university of health sciences anywhere in Pakistan to financially assist the prospective Pakistani medical students belonging to underprivileged areas," he said.

The governor urged the Pakistani doctors living and practicing abroad to invest in the country as it was now time for them to payback their motherland.

"This country needs you now as the best way to payback your motherland is to bring back your investments here as Pakistan has the ability to safeguard and multiply them," he said.

Imran Ismail acknowledged that expatriate Pakistanis, comprising doctors, have got themselves involved in series of welfare and philanthropic initiatives in their motherland.

"But this country needs more of your support and for this you have to believe in Pakistan and to entrust it with your investments," he said emphasizing that this was the best way to fully participate in the progress and...

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