LAKKI MARWAT - Unidentified armed militants kidnapped four doctors in the Ghazni Khel police station jurisdiction here on Wednesday. According to police sources, the doctors were going to Dera Ismail Khan for duty when they were intercepted by the militants. Police said that it has laid a siege on ...

DASKA The doctors held a protest against the City Police for registration of a murder case against two doctors. They demanded withdrawal of the case registered against doctors - Shahid Farooq and his wife Rahat Jabeen for alleged negligence that resulted in the death of a pregnant woman in their ...

NOORPUR THALNational Rural Support Programme (NRSP) Tehsil Field Officer Tanveer Haider has stressed the need for consulting qualified doctors to avoid maternity complications. Speaking at a workshop organised by LSO Noorpur Thal chapter on 'Maternal and Newborn Health', she said that one woman ...

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan received head injuries when he fell down from a lifter taking him to stage for addressing a public meeting in Lahore Tuesday.He is being treated in Shaukat Khanum Hospital and according to doctors; his condition is out of danger.It has been reported that he ...

islamabadThe status/condition of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah, who was critically injured by his jail mates in Jammu prison, has been unchanged since his arrival in the trauma ICU Saturday evening, says a press release received here on Sunday from New Delhi.It said that the doctors said they will ...

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 ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Health Department on Saturday terminated 120 more doctors for not joining their duties. A spokesman for the Health Department said that these doctors had not responded to the show-cause notices and warnings. He added that the disciplinary action was initiated against over ...

KARACHI – Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) has unanimously condemned and rejected the idea to start evening classes in medical colleges in the country.In a joint press conference, the leaders of PMA and PIMA warned the government that if ...

LONDON  - Doctors in Britain on Wednesday outlined how they plan to repair a hole in the skull of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education.Surgeons at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the central English city of Birmingham plan to insert a metal plate to ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Psychiatric Society Sindh on Saturday staged a protest rally, in front of Karachi Press Club, to register their protest against killing of their senior colleague Dr. Hasan Alam.A large number of psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, community health workers and social workers, ...

The doctors of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Friday failed to submit reply in the Lahore High Court (LHC) over their strike being staged across Punjab despite the court orders.The LHC judge justice Ijazul Hassan hearing the case and expressing ...

LAHORE – Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Prof Anjam Habib Vohra has stressed the young doctors and medical students to respect their seniors and teachers.  Addressing the oath taking ceremony of Medical Teachers Association PGMI/LGH and inauguration ...

LAHORE - The Baghanpura police on Monday arrested four persons including two doctors involved in illegal kidney transplantation and also their sale.The police have registered a case against Dr Sanaul Allah, Dr Imran and their accomplices Amant and Zulfqar besides sending them behind the bars.As per ...

GUJRANWALA - The bail plea of the young doctors who bashed a medical superintendent, other senior doctors and journalists at a Gujranwala hospital have been rejected by the court.However, a bail in four criminal cases (FRI No 06/13, 07/13, and 11/13 of Civil Lines Police Station) has been granted ...

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Nelson Mandela has "recovered" from recent surgery and a lung infection for which the 94-year-old spent nearly three weeks in hospital, the presidency said Sunday, citing his doctors. He "has recovered from his surgical procedure and the lung infection, his doctors said today," ...

The phrase rebels without a cause strikes instantly the moment one hears about the young doctors whose banditry yet again left the patients in the lurch. It surely is a crying shame that the YDA took to the streets for a ‘cause’ that was downright sordid; behind their protests was the ...

SIALKOT - Defiant young doctors shut the outdoor patents departments (OPDs) at both the DHQ hospitals - Govt  Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Civil Hospital and Govt Sardar Begum Memorial Hospital here on Thursday.  They refused to check patients in a bid to express solidarity with the ...

The doctors who beat up the medical superintendent of the District Headquarters Hospital, Gujranwala, on Wednesday got into the history books for the wrong reason. Instead of making a name for themselves because of some medical discovery, or even taking part in some record-setting surgical ...

GUJRANWALA - Young doctors on Tuesday raided the office of  MS Civil Hospital, broke the windowpanes and threatened to stage a massive protest if their demands were not meet. Reportedly, young doctors under the local YDA leadership raided the office of Civil Hospital MS Dr Anwar and broke ...

BRISTOL - UK doctors have saved a man’s life using an unconventional treatment - a shot of neat alcohol into the arteries supplying his heart, the BBC reported. Ronald Aldom, 77, from Portishead near Bristol, had an unusual heart rhythm called ventricular tachychardia that can be fatal if ...

QUETTA - Asking protesting doctors to show flexibility, Balochistan Health Secretary Asmatullah Kakar has said that the government is ready to resolve all legitimate issues of doctors, including providing them security.He stated this while addressing a roundtable discussion under the title ...

QUETTA – Doctors continued their strike Friday throughout the province against the kidnapping of Dr Saeed Khan who was abducted on October 16 from Sariab Road.All the emergency services as well as other departments remained closed in all government hospitals in Quetta, including that of Civil ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Sindh Doctors Welfare Association (SDWA), Young Doctors Association (YDA), Functional Doctors Forum and other doctors’ associations strongly condemned the arrest and torture of more than 100 doctors in Quetta.President PMA Sindh Dr Samrina Hashmi ...

QUETTA - The strike of doctors, started on October 16 following the kidnapping of Dr Saeed Khan, has entered the 31 day on Saturday, creating enormous problems for poor patients.According to Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Balochistan President Sultan Tareen, kidnappers are demanding a huge ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Medical Association Sindh, SDWA, All Paramedical and Nursing Associations of Sindh are deeply concerned over the targeted killing of Dr Nisar Sehto, the RMO of Lyari General Hospital. They said that the government was deaf, and dumb. Dr Nisar Sehto was targeted when he was ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - Fifty-six posts of doctors have been lying vacant at District Headquarters Hospital of Bahawalnagar for a long time. The unreasonable delay in the recruitments has exposed the government’s tall claims regarding provision of healthcare facilities to the public. The district is ...

QUETTA  - Doctors of the government hospitals throughout Balochistan, including Quetta, on Monday continued their strike for the 19th consecutive day against the kidnapping of senior doctor Saeed Ahmed. Dr. Saeed Khan, an eye specialist was kidnapped from Quetta on Oct 16th, when he was on his ...

KARACHI - A protest meeting was held in front of OPD of Civil Hospital and in Arag Auditorium of Dow Medical College, Karachi against the arrest warrants issued against those doctors who attended a patient that died in Civil Hospital Medical Ward in March 2012. Doctors and paramedical staff of ...

LAHORE – Like the previous years, consultants and senior doctors stayed away from Emergencies and Indoors of public sector hospitals across the province, including the City, during Eid days, leaving patients at the mercy of medical officers and those doing house job. Besides causing huge ...

ISLAMABAD  - Health experts have claimed that unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are key risk factors for the major noncommunicable diseases.According to them, inactive persons are more vulnerable to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), hypertension, and diabetes  and advised them to ...