A three-day international collaborative conference on bioethics which opened here on Tuesday called for enhancing the agenda of bioethics globally. The conference is jointly organised by the Centre of Bioethics and Culture (CEBEC) of SIUT and their counterpart from Indonesia. Experts from WHO and Unesco are also taking part in the conference. The prime aim of the conference is to disseminate the concept of bioethics education and the challenges faced in this field.
In his welcome address, Professor Adib Rizvi, Director of SIUT highlighted the economic and social disparity which exists between the developed and under developed world. He said massive exploitation of resources and injustices have divided the world in two different zones.
Professor Rizvi pointed out that "80 percent of the people in under developed are disfranchised and for them both health and education is a luxury". He said SIUT was the only medical institution in the country which had bioethics centre in its fold for discussing ethical challenges to the world of medical sciences. He greatly lauded the role of CEBEC who was supplementing the clinical activities of SIUT by discussing and projecting the ethical issues of medical world.
Others who spoke at the opening session included Dr Farhat Moazzam Chairperson of the CEBEC, who discussed the challenges of developing Pakistan's first bioethics centre. Dr Beth Rivin Professor of Law from the University of Washington, Professor Yati Soearto a paediatrician from Indonesia, Abha Saxena, Dr Ahmed Mandil both from WHO and Dr Susan Vice Regional Advisor of UNESCO were other speakers. Dr Amer Jaffery of CEBEC and Dr Shahid Shamin an alumnus of CEBEC spoke on education and teaching tools for bioethics.-PR
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