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- - Thursday, March 30, 2006 Doctors stress disaster management improvement Staff ReportLAHORE: Pakistan lacks expertise in disaster management and there is a need for improvement in this field, doctors told a press conference at Holiday Inn on Wednesday.

Dr Mahmood Shaukat, Dr Khalid Masood Gondal, Dr Abdul Majeed Chaudhry and Dr Masood Akhtar from the Society of Surgeons of Pakistan said the society would hold an international conference on disaster management in collaboration with the Punjab government at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on March 31 and April 1.

Senior federal and Punjab government officials, army officers, people from disaster management units like the Civil Defence and Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority and doctors would attend the conference, they said, adding that the conference would recommend a long-term policy and legislation on disaster management.

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi will open the conference.

They said the two-day conference would cover issues like the history of disaster management, long-term policies on disasters, coordination issues, geological surveys, incidence command system, networking and international collaboration, relief activities and medica...

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...ba href=/stress management/a/b and only one-third (38%) provide health screenings.* In more detail - managers in the manufacturing sector feel the strain as ill health at work hits productivity - a surprisingly high proportion of manufacturing sector managers (55 per cent) admit to being unproductive for at least 20% of their working time, due to poor health.According to research published by the Chartered Management Institute and Workplace Health Connect, sickness levels are increasing, but managers in the sector are unwilling to report their symptoms.The report also shows that 32% of manufacturing sector managers have difficulty concentrating, due to ill-health.However, it reveals that organisations in the sector are not doing enough to tackle workplace illness, resulting in a negative impact on employee well-being and performance.The 'Quality of Working Life' report questioned 1,541 managers in the UK revealing a poor picture of health.Key findings of the report were: * Ill-health plagues business - 60% claimed that illness rates in their organisation have increased over the past 12 months.However, only one in three report symptoms to their line manager indicating a much deeper malaise.* Health and safety rising up the agenda - the report revealed that 64% of manufacturing sector managers agreed that the senior management team in their organisation considered health and safety to be important.Just over half (52%) suggested that the issues were becoming increasingly important.This figur...