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President Dr Arif Alvi has emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence in the health sector to provide better facilities to people.
He was addressing a conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Health Sector in Lahore today.
The President said AI is a great hope in the health and medicine sectors, and in future, a medical graduate could utilise it for treatment of patients.
Arif Alvi cited an example of the COVID-19 pandemic period in which Pakistan successfully used available data and saved several lives. He said that the number of deaths taking place due to COVID-19 was less in the country than in other countries of the region.
Earlier, the president gave away awards to individuals and institutions, who contributed technology and AI to the healthcare sector.
Source: Radio Pakistan