LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip walked out of hospital on Monday, 10 days after the 92-year-old underwent exploratory abdominal surgery. The Duke of Edinburgh, who went under the knife on June 7, smiled and waved as he left the private London Clinic in the centre of the British ...

JOHANNESBURG : Nelson Mandela remains in a serious but stable condition as he receives intensive care for a recurrent lung infection, the South African government said Monday.The 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero was rushed to a Pretoria hospital in the early hours of Saturday.“Former president ...

BAHAWALPURIn Bahawal Victoria Hospital, facilities are becoming scarce as the patients have to buy medicines from market while senior doctors have handed over all the responsibilities to the junior doctors, complained the patients and their attendants. Children Ward of the hospital is in a ...

TOKYO  - A Japanese cancer specialist said Wednesday she has started the world’s first clinical trial of a powerful, non-surgical, short-term radiation therapy for breast cancer. The National Institute of Radiological Sciences has begun the trial using “heavy ion ...

Lahore - After 15-day hospitalisation, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan was discharged from Shaukat Khanum Hospital on Wednesday. He was shifted to his Zaman Park house where he would stay for three days before leaving for Islamabad. Although doctors have advised bed rest, PTI chief ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan is going to be discharged from Shaukat Khanum hospital today (Wednesday) but he will be visiting the doctors on a regular basis for physiotherapy. Khan was fitted with a specially designed spinal support, or brace on Tuesday morning after which he ...

Imran Khan left hospital Wednesday, two weeks after breaking bones in his back in a fall at a rally for the country's general election, where his party scored a major breakthrough.The 60-year-old was ordered to remain immobile in bed after he fractured vertebrae and a rib in a dramatic tumble from ...

About 20 operations are put off every day and around 60 have been postponed so far in few days in a 1400-bed Jinnah Hospital.Hospital sources said 1000 patients including 300 visit the emergency department of the hospital for treatment every day and around 30 needed surgery but due to persistent ...

Gunmen stormed the Mayo Hospital Surgery Unit and got free an under-treatment detainee, police admitted on Saturday. The assailants tortured the on-duty policemen and took away their official guns. A police officer said Athar had been arrested in connection with double murder and he was also wanted ...

About 20 operations are put off every day and around 60 have been postponed so far in few days in a 1400-bed Jinnah Hospital.Hospital sources said 1000 patients including 300 vist the emergency department of the hospital for treatment every day and around 30 needed surgery but due to persistent ...

VIENNA: A Hungarian man who sawed off one of his arms by accident below the elbow managed to drive 15 kilometres (10 miles) to hospital inAustriaclutching the severed limb, police said Sunday. The 37-year-old somehow succeeded in fishing the arm out of the machinery that had sliced it off in ...

islamabad - Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has made an emphatic appeal to the people to vote his party to power for their own sake.“Allah will not let me leave this world until I succeed in making a new Pakistan,” Imran Khan hoped while addressing the last rally before ...

A Pakistani prisoner who was attacked in an Indian jail died on Thursday, hospital officials said."His condition was extremely critical. He died early morning," a senior doctor at a government hospital in Chandigarh told AFP on condition of anonymity.Sanaullah Ranjay suffered massive head injuries ...

Imran Khan has been advised to rest for a week after sustaining skull and back injuries in a fall at an election campaign rally, a hospital official said Wednesday.The former cricket star was admitted to the private Shaukat Khanum hospital that he founded in Lahore on Tuesday after falling off a ...

Two relatives of Pakistani prisoner who arrived here on Tuesday visited Sanaullah Ranjahy who was fighting for his life in Chandigarh hospital, Indian media reported.The relatives of critically wounded Sanaullah arrived in India via the Attari land border from Sialkot, on Tuesday morning.Sanaullah ...

A group of officials from the Pakistani High Commission to India on Saturday visited Sanaullah Haq who had been injured in a brawl with an Indian inmate in a Jammu jail at PGI Chandigarh, the Times of India reported.Pakistan was granted consular access to Sanaullah by India on Friday night, as well ...

ZAGREB-Croatia's Ivo Karlovic, well-known for his thundering serves, is recovering in hospital inMiamiafter being admitted with viral meningitis, his wife Alsi said. In a statement on the official ATP website (www.atpworldtour.com) she dismissed reports that the 34-year-old had suffered a stroke. ...

PARIS (AFP):Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was in aParishospital Sunday after suffering a mini-stroke, raising media doubts about his ability to govern less than a year before a presidential election. The 76-year-old, in power since 1999, suffered a “transient ischaemia” ...

RAMENSKY Thirty-eight people, mostly psychiatric patients, were killed Friday in a fire that ravaged a hospital in the Moscow region, with the victims engulfed by flames as they slept behind barred windows.The deadly night-time blaze raised new questions about security standards at Russia’s ...

CAPE TOWN : Peace icon Desmond Tutu checked into a South African hospital on Wednesday for non-surgical treatment and tests related to an ongoing infection. "Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has checked into a Cape Town hospital for the treatment of a persistent infection and to undergo tests to ...

KOT RADHA KISHANAiling prisoner's relatives held a protest against the police for taking the prisoner back to jail from hospital without proper treatment.Reportedly, death row prisoner Javed Khan was taken to DHQ Hospital for chest pain where Chest Specialist DrAli Gohar shifted him to ward for ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Operation Theatre (OT) in the Agency Headquarter Hospital, Landi Kotal is no more serving the ailing community.Talking to TheNation, the dwellers of the area, also resented the unavailability of a surgeon doctor in the hospital. They said due to unavailability of a surgeon in the ...

FAISALABAD - A plan should be worked out to utilise Wapda Hospital for general public by awarding it the status of a teaching hospital and affiliate it with a medical college.Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan stated this during his ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital Saturday after a 10-day stay during which the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon was treated for pneumonia, the South African government said. His release was decided “following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general ...

The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban as punishment for campaigning for girls' education has been discharged from the British hospital treating her, but will return soon for more surgery, the hospital said Friday.Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, said ...

LAHORE – Environment Protection Department (EPD) Punjab has sealed one of the biggest hospital waste recycling unit at Bund Road on Monday. The EPD squad, headed by DO environment Younus Zahid, raided Sajid Plastic Recycling Unit Pathi Chowk Bund Road and sealed it for recycling contaminated ...

RAWALPINDI - Department of Civil Defence Rawalpindi is training the staff of hospitals all over Rawalpindi to fight fire-hazards.  Sources said the training would enable them to save the patients of wards and ICU from fire.  The training will give way to awareness among the employees of ...

ISLAMABAD - Eminent Consultant and Associate Professor of Neurology at Shifa International Hospital, Dr Arsalan Ahmad has said Alzheimer’s is a disease that affects short-term and long-term memory, emotions, mood, behavior and language of the patient.He said the disease makes starting and ...

DASKA - The relatives of a woman, who was killed because of alleged negligence committed by a doctor, attacked and ransacked a private hospital situated on the main College Road here.Carrying stones, bricks and wooden sticks, the protesters damaged the furniture, set it on fire and broke ...

HAFIZABAD: An acute shortage of medicines particularly life-saving drugs, drips and other vaccines is being experienced by the patients in the emergency ward of the DHQ Hospital of Hafizabad.Patients and their attendants present in the ward complained the shortage of even syringes in the ward not ...