KHYBER AGENCYSince long the tribesmen are facing shortage of health facilities in their respective areas and the situation got worse when the supply of medicines to 13 Basic Health Units (BHUs) have been stopped for the last four months in all three tehsils of Khyber Agency.The elders of different ...

ISLAMABAD : The Ministry of National Health Services‚ Regulations and Coordination has directed Drug Regulatory Agency of Pakistan not to increase rates of pharmaceutical drugs. In a statement‚ the ministry said no increase in the prices of pharmaceutical drugs and other related items ...

BAHAWALPURThe 2nd National Eastern Medicines Conference concluded here at Islamia University, Bahawalpur with the recommendations that a bill will be tabled in the National Assembly to formulate Eastern Medicines Authority in the country. The experts of the Eastern medicines will be allowed to ...

KARACHI – The general public has been warned against a number of misguiding, misleading advertisements about medicines for treatment of arthritis, such as Ayurvadic medicine Sandhi Sudha; this medicine has even been rejected by the Indian Medical Association, said College of Family Medicine ...

KARACHI - Pakistani Deputy Ambassador to Nigeria Ahmed Ali Sirohey said that Nigeria was a big market for the country’s Pharma Products.He was addressing at a reception arranged in honour of leading Nigerian Pharma Industrialists delegation led by Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai.Chairman South Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD – The shortage of beds, medicines and ill attitude of doctors and staff at PIMS and Polyclinic hospital are creating massive problems for patients at OPD and emergency ward. The patients, at PIMS said that despite of the fact that large expansion had been made in the hospital to ...

SIALKOT - A joint raiding team of Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) and the District Administration Sialkot recovered a huge quantity of the provincial government owned medicines dumped in a water-well near Govt Sardar Begum Memorial DHQ Hospital here on Monday.  The local ACE officials told ...

Federal Minister for National Regulations and Services Dr Ferdous Ashiq Awan has said despite a growth rate of 7 percent of the pharma industry, not a single company was producing medicines approved by World Health Organization (WHO).In a speech at a conference and award ceremony on "Ethics in ...

ISLAMABAD - The shortage of medicines in the market due to delay in allocation of ephedrine quota by the government to pharmaceutical industries, would continue to persist as least for one-and-a-half month.According to information the quota that the government used to allocate in January has been ...

 RAWALPINDI  - Free medicine allocations for public hospitals of Rawalpindi have become a dream.The deprived patients, who frequent OPD (Out Patient Department) and emergency, departments of public hospitals like Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Hospital, Holy Family Hospital and DHQ Hospital ...

LAHORE - Parliamentary Secretary for Food, Muhammad Saeed Mughal stunned Punjab Assembly members on Monday by telling them that some of the wheat go-downs were under the control of health and education departments and the former also used them for storage of medicines.He revealed this while ...

LAHORE – Spurious medicines of Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) took nine more lives on Saturday as death toll climbed up to 23 prompting the secretary health to constitute a committee to probe the alleged reaction of cardiac medicines.  According to details, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad ...

LAHORE (APP) - The Children Emergency Department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is running without medicines, patients complained here on Sunday. Over 200 children including infants visit the hospital department daily. After check-up, doctors on duty hand over the prescription to patients with ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KOT ADDU - The people of Kot Addu demanded immediate return of the ambulances of Taunsa Barrage Hospital and Tehsil Headquarters Hospital shifted to Muzaffargarh and restoration of power supply. The THQ Hospital is running without MS and doctors are allegedly not performing ...

DASKA - The newly-developed civil hospital has been facing acute shortage of medicines, adding to patients woes, though the provincial government has spent Rs160 million on the construction of new building of the hospital. The locals were of the view that only this grand building was not enough to ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI) The government needs to invest more in the state-run dispensaries, the first unit in the healthcare infrastructure, to enable them to effectively cope with the basic medical needs of the people. Investment in medicine supply, services, equipment and infrastructure is seriously ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Hundreds of substandard companies are pumping their medicines into market. Even medical storeowners have established companies producing drugs with possible fatal consequences. Some businesspersons are importing medicines labelled as food items and selling them through doctors with ...

LAHORE (APP) the The Edhi Foundation provided free medical treatment and medicines to 2,467 patients at the Edhi dispensary in Allama Iqbal Town last month. An Edhi Foundation spokesman said on Sunday that the foundation had provided ambulance service to 1833 bodies and 3,434 patients to shift ...

LAHORE - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two persons involved in the manufacturing of spurious drugs and recovered medicines worth millions of rupees from their possession. Addressing a press conference in Hajvery Town on Tuesday, Director FIA Punjab Zafar ...

ISLAMABAD - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has donated Rs11.3 million worth medicines to a number of organisations working in different regions and announced on Thursday, further contribution of 100,000 pounds for the flood relief efforts. GSK Pakistan has also donated necessary medical supplies to ...

LAHORE (PR) - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that Punjab government has started provision of free of cost medicines in hospitals first time in the history of the country and Rs 6.5 billion have been allocated for this purpose in the new budget. He said that in order to ...

SIALKOT - Health Task Force conducted raid at Basic Health Unit (BHU) at Looni-Bajwat and caught red-handed BHUs dispenser Azam while running his clinic during duty timings and using the official medicines at his clinic. Coordinator Punjab CMs Health Task Force Sialkot Asif Mehmood Soni disclosed ...

INVESTIGATION CELL ISLAMABAD The high-ups of Directorate General of Pakistan Post in sheer violation of PPRA rules as well as departmental policy have purchased medicines in bulk on inflated rates under the garb of 'centralised purchase for obvious reason of getting maximum kickbacks, TheNation ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The selling of most drugs under a trade or brand names raising a controversy of variance in drug prices which produces of the same active ingredient. A generic medicine is typically 20 to 80 per cent less expensive than the brand name but the practice to sell medicine by their ...

LAHORE - On the directions of the Chief Minister Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Punjab government has released Rs877.7535m for the provision of 100 per cent free medicines in government hospitals in the province. In this connection, Punjab Health department has issued notification. According to the ...

LAHORE - At the time when Punjab government seems quite determined to restart liver transplantation in the province, a 40-year-old man, the lone survivor of liver transplantation in the country, owes his life to the medicines being imported from abroad. Saleem Jehangir Marri of Kohlu Agency ...