BAHAWALPURThe Young Doctors Association (YDA) has demanded that the Punjab government should exempt the hospitals from loadshedding which has added to the hardships of patients.YDA leaders Dr Zulqarnain, Dr Aamir Majeed, Dr Afzal Randhawa and Dr Wasim Akhtar made­ the demand while talking to ...

SHEIKHUPURA/HAFIZABAD/SIALKOT/BAHAWALPURBecause of scorching summer and prolonged outages, a number of people particularly schoolchildren in parts of the Punjab got fainted and were hospitalised while one of them has been reported dead. In Sheikhupura, like other parts of the country, and its ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah delivered seven state-of-the-art mobile hospitals.Each hospital fitted in a single vehicle and also encompassing ex-ray and other quality medical accessories to the Directorate of the health services, Fata at the Governor House Peshawar ...

ISLAMABAD  - The substandard food cafeterias and stall in hospitals of capitals are functioning unnoticed, taking a heavy toll on health of visitors while authorities concerned are not even considering it to resolve this issue.The food being sold in these canteens and out side stalls of ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Health Department has chalked out plan to introduce public complaints management system for redressal of grievances of visiting people at government hospitals in the province. Chairing a meeting held here Friday, Secretary Health Arif Nadeem said that the patients and ...

Third World countries desirous of raising the standard of living of their people invariably make major allocations of funds to two sectors – health and education. But, unfortunately, both these sectors are criminally ignored in Pakistan, getting a meager share of allocations of 2.5 and 3.7 ...

RAWALPINDI - The administrations of three teaching hospitals have started relying on the stray cats to eliminate the rats from their premises after an incident in which a rat mauled a newborn baby in Holy Family Hospital (HFH) Labor Room 1 on Monday. In this regard, the administration of HFH on ...

KARACHI – The Administrator Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Hussain Syed said construction of a 50-bed each hospital in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Federal-B area, Block 13 was started to provide better healthcare facilities to citizens.He said this on a visit of both under construction hospitals ...

KARACHI  - The intensity may be largely subdued yet hospitals in Karachi continue to receive patients with dengue fever, said Head of the Sindh Dengue Fever Surveillance Cell, Dr. Shakil Mallick on Wednesday.Talking to APP, he said one confirmed case of the fever admitted to a local hospital ...

KARACHI – Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed Friday said agreement for purchase of ambulances for hospitals and medical institutions in Karachi had been finalised with the Scotland Ambulance Services.He revealed this during a meeting with the head of ...

BAHAWALPUR - The administration claimed on Monday that the YDA southern Punjab did not take part in the strike and all patients - in outdoor as well as emergency wards are being provided medical services as usual. Quaid-e-Azam Medical College Principal Dr Khalid Abbas Bukhari told a press briefing ...

KARACHI - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked the countries to implement infection control measures and counter antimicrobial resistant bacteria.WHO has identified Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) as a growing, global public health problem, said a communication received here on Friday. The ...

Patients continue to suffer due to Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) strike for the second consecutive day in government hospitals of the city against transfers of colleagues.OPDs in all the government hospitals of Lahore remained closed on Friday adding to the miseries of patients visiting ...

In the middle of January, I read a news item in a foreign newspaper, that a comatose patient, being kept on ventilator in an ICU of Mathura Das Mathur Hospital Jodhpur, was nibbled by rodents on ear, lips, cheeks and nose, while the nursing staff kept sleeping. In reaction, the responsible staff ...

RAWALPINDI - Rat is a delectable food for cats and latter is considered as the worst enemy of the former by nature. However it is interesting to witnesses both rats and cats searching for food together at a same heap of garbage without disturbing each other. If one wants to witness the ...

ISLAMABAD - The strike of the medical and non-medical staff that was started on Monday continued on the fifth consecutive day, Friday, against the new health structure in federal hospitals crippling the healthcare services in the federal capital.Professors, doctors, nurses, paramedical and ...

LAHORE Various groups of a 20-member Indonesian delegation, currently visiting the City on the invitation of Chief Minister Punjab, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, on Wednesday visited Government Said Mittha Hospital in the walled City and reviewed the facilities being provided to dengue hit ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Young Doctors Association and the Pakistan Medical Association have demanded enhanced security for the nine teaching hospitals in the City. A YDA officebearer said that at present only two or three constables were deployed at each of these major hospitals, including ...

MIANWALI - Additional District and Sessions Judge Ghaffer Mahtab Shah ordered registration of a case against the Medical Superintendent of District Headquarters Hospital Mianwali on account of using expired medicine in the hospital. As per detail, Faisal Malik Awan who is a working journalist, ...

PESHAWAR Despite lapse of a week, the Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) continued observing its complete strike at the three teaching hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, warning that they would extend their strike to peripheral hospitals of the province if no attention was paid to their issues ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Vice-Chairman Khawaja Shahzeb Akram and PPMA former Chairman Mian Asad Shujaur Rehamn have strongly criticised on no entry order for pharmaceutical representatives in government hospitals by Secretary Health. Shahzeb Akram, in a ...

LAHORE - Parliamentary Secretary Health Punjab Dr Saeed Elahi has said that on the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab, all the diagnostics and treatment facilities for the dengue patients are being provided free of cost and the administrations of hospitals have been directed to allocate at least ...

ISLAMABAD - Owing to bureaucratic inertia on the part of the concerned quarters seven major government hospitals in Pakistan are running without the permanent Executive Directors. The hospitals include Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Federal Government Polyclinic, National Institute ...

LAHORE The Neurology departments of Ganga Ram and Mayo, the two key hospitals in the town, are being run without professors by the Punjab government, causing problems not only for patients but medical students too, said sources in the Health Department on Saturday. A senior doctor seeking ...

LAHORE - President Medical Lab Technologists Association of Pakistan (MLTAP), Technologist Mohammad Ali Malik has demanded of the government to create new posts of medical technologists in all the tehsil and district headquarters hospitals besides in all the medical colleges of Pakistan on urgent ...

RAWALPINDI - College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) and the Royal College of Physicians, London have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will enable Pakistani doctors to get training in the institutions of England. Controller Examination (CPSP) Prof Muhammad Shoaib Shafi ...

QUETTA - The international medical organisation Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) has expressed its concern over the blast, which occurred in Quetta Civil Hospital on Friday and termed it a clear violation of the neutrality of a hospital as well as causing the loss of human life. In a statement issued ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Health Department, medical superintendents of public and private hospitals, and doctors on the whole are not yet prepared to handle any epidemic outbreak such as bird flu and swine flu, which has already killed one man in the metropolis. The family members of the swine flu ...

KARACHI (PPI) - No government-run teaching hospital in rural Sindh has got the facility of mammography, to help detect breast cancer, which is rising with an alarming rate in women of both rural and urban areas. A few government teaching hospitals in Karachi have got the mammography facility and ...

RAWALPINDI - Lack of proper care of patients, rude behaviour of nursing staff and indifferent attitude of doctors can be felt the moment one enters the premises of government hospitals. The news reports, regarding the indifferent behaviour of doctors and paramedical staff, published in papers from ...