ISLAMABAD - The major public sector hospital of the capital, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), has been put on high alert till May 12 due to general elections.Pims Administrator Professor Dr Iqbal Memon has issued the orders. No leave will be granted to any staff during this ...

ISLAMABAD -Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday set aside the appointment of Dr Riaz Ahmed Warraich as the Executive Director (ED) of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) directing the government to adopt a competitive process while appointing a new ED of the hospital.The court issued the ...

ISLAMABAD - Citizens have urged the management of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to improve service delivery system at its Out-Patient Department (OPD) and Emergency ward. They complained that most of the time junior doctors attend the patients at OPD and emergency ward. “At ...

ISLAMABAD  - CT Scan machine of the largest hospital of federal capital, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), has been out of order since long and the patients of Emergency Ward are forced to move to private laboratories for this test. It is irony of the fate that the lonely ultra ...

ISLAMABAD – If you are not influential and wealthy, please don’t expect a better treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital. Cheap and substandard medicines, injections are, however, in abundance for any one’s treat.   It is almost impossible for a ...

ISLAMABAD - The Executive Director of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Dr Riaz Warriach has shown his commitment to implement the service structure for medical officers. Addressing to the medical officers and the postgraduate residents of the hospital, the executive director said he ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has made arrangements to respond proactively to the reporting of CCHF (Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever) cases in public sector hospital in the wake of Eid-ul-Azha.A statement issued by the hospital administration said due to upcoming ...

ISLAMABAD - On the call of Young Doctors Association (YDA), the doctors observed strike at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) against the alleged manhandling of the doctors by the guards of a VIP patient over wrong parking. OPDs and elective Operation Theater (OT) of the three ...

ISLAMABAD - The doctors of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) withdrew their services from the Emergency Ward of the hospital on Thursday and gave a call of strike in the OPD and Elective Operation Theatre against the alleged torture on doctors by the security guards of a VIP.Though, the ...

ISLAMABAD - The employees of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) including doctors again resorted to protest and token strike Wednesday against the expected appointment of Dr Riaz Warraich from Mayo Hospital, Lahore, as Executive Director PIMS.The outpatient department services were ...

ISLAMABAD  – Citizens have urged the management of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to improve service delivery system at its Out-Patient Department (OPD) and Emergency ward.They complained that most of the time junior doctors attend the patients while senior doctors remain ...

ISLAMABAD – Despite Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s orders for early establishment of a liver transplant centre at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the project could not be materialised so far.The Centre for Liver Disease and Organ Transplant at PIMS was expected ...

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of Royal Free Hospital, London called on the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani at PMs House here on Saturday and discussed matters to set up liver transplant centre at PIMS Hospital to provide best facilities for liver transplant at affordable cost to the people. The ...

ISLAMABAD - The non-medical staff of the Pakistan Institution of Medical Sciences (Pims) staged a protest demonstration against the hospital administration for not allowing them to convey their demands to the Prime Minister who is due to arrive at hospital to inaugurate dental hospital Tuesday ...

Executive Director PIMS misused his discretionary powers in collusion with Health department and appointed the employee of grade 9 in grade 16. According to sources, PIMS Executive Director Dr Mehmood Jamal, misusing his discretionary powers in collusion with Health department appointed Chaudhry ...

Patient's attendants have been facing problems due to poor sitting and other arrangements at PIMS hospital. Earlier Executive Director Mehmud Jamal had claimed that the drinking water and shutter fans would be arranged for the relatives of the patients. However, nothing has been done so far, except ...

In a sway of some very unusual generous moods, the PIMS management has allotted its canteen, storeroom, and cafeteria, among other resources to its blue eyed without rent. Despite a massive loss of billions to the exchequer, the health ministry has adopted a mysterious silence and indifference over ...

ISLAMABAD Doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) continued their token strike for the second consecutive day on Friday, boycotting to attend outdoor patients against removal of Acting Executive Director Dr Ghazala Mehmood. They were demanding immediate reinstatement of Dr ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the largest public sector hospital of the capital despite being allocated hefty amount of Rs 600 million for cleanliness purpose is being run into shabby condition. The hospital seriously needed utmost attention of the authorities ...

ISLAMABAD - Law Minister Dr Babar Awan during his visit to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on December 22 fell out with the senior doctors and officials of the administration for not giving him due protocol. According to PIMS senior doctors, the federal minister visited the hospital ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has made all the arrangements for the treatment of swine flu patients. A separate block in the Medical Ward No.2 has been allocated for the admission of swine flu patients. A large amount of anti-viral drug is already available in PIMS ...

ABBOTTABAD - The criminal negligence of the non-doctor and unprofessional Chief Executive Naeem Shazad of the Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, with the connivance of certain doctors on December 6, in the case of ill-treatment given to late PML-N MPA, has been let off of the hook for unknown ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), one of the major pubic sector hospitals of the Capital is being run without a full time Executive Director for the last more than six months. The bureaucratic tug-of-war inside the Health Ministry over the appointment of the ED has created ...

ISLAMABAD-Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has established the first Paediatric Oncology Unit in Children Hospital PIMS, much-needed treatment facility in public sector hospitals of twin cities. Federal Minister of Health Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani was to inaugurate the Paediatric Oncology ...

ISLAMABAD - The three-member team constituted by administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS)to probe into the issue of selling spurious drugs at a private pharmacy situated within the hospital has submitted its final report fixing no charges against the said medical store. As ...

ISLAMABAD - Junior doctors of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) called off their strike on Friday over the scuffle that took place between doctors and private security guards on car parking issue Thursday night. The hospital administration has agreed to address their grievances and ...

ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has received 31 pollen-allergy patients in the last couple of days even weeks before the onset of the allergy season that forecasts how severe the season may be this year. Every year, during spring season, in Islamabad and its suburbs, there ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Saturday said that hospital's CT scan will be functional soon after removing fault from the machine. According to an official of PIMS, due to some fault created in tube the machine is not functioning properly and for this reason ...

ISLAMABAD- Islamabad Blood Transfusion Authority (IBTA) has formally registered Blood Bank at PIMS and approved to grant it license ,said a press release on Monday.   The Blood Bank at PIMS has undergone many improvements this year. For the first time PIMS has started double-checking of ...

ISLAMABAD - The Health Ministry has embarked upon a mega project of transforming the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) into a paper-free public sector hospital by its complete automation till June 2009. The ministry is working on the plan to make PIMS, the biggest public sector ...