Tag: Doctor

The good doctor and his five American handlers

According to an 8-page special report, compiled by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising experts and representatives from five different agencies, Dr Shakil Afridi...

UN doctor, driver injured in Karachi

Gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle in Karachi on Tuesday, injuring a foreign doctor working on a polio immunisation campaign and his local...

UN doctor, driver shot in Karachi: officials

Gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle in Karachi Tuesday, wounding a foreign doctor working on a polio immunisation campaign and a local driver,...

Negligent doctors cause woman’s death

A 50-year-old woman died at Civil Hospital due to negligence of doctors and unavailability of oxygen on Friday. According to media reports, Jannat Bibi...

Makeit or breakit

After the failure of talks between the protesting Young Doctor’s Association (YDA) and senior doctors on Sunday, both the young doctors and the Punjab...

Doctor, heal thyself

  Promotions over patients? Writing somewhere in the late 5th Century BC, Hippocrates (widely regarded as the father of modern medicine) penned down an oath in...

Sindh PMA to strike against doctors’ killings

The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has warned the government of a province-wide boycott against the killing and kidnappings of doctors’ community. This was said by...

Lower Tamgho expectations, warns France doctor

Olympic expectations for troubled French triple jumper Teddy Tamgho should be lowered, the France team doctor warned on Wednesday. Tamgho is bidding to make...

Red Cross was in contact with Briton’s kidnappers

The Red Cross said Monday it had been in contact with the kidnappers of a British humanitarian worker before he was killed by his...

British Red Cross doctor kidnapped in Quetta found dead

The beheaded body of a British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), kidnapped in Quetta in January, was found...

The Hippocratic Oath

Doctor, heal thyself While the leadership of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) has withdrawn the five day old strike after the intervention of the SC,...

Doctor killed in Malir

In what appeared to be another sectarian killing in the city, unidentified assailants gunned down a doctor belonging to the Deoband school of thought...

JPMC staff seeks ‘martyrs’ benefits’ for slain doctor

The Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) staff in a condolence meeting for Dr Saleem Kharal on Tuesday demanded that the government should award all...

Unrest among medics over service structures sparks strike

The unnecessary delay by the health managers in addressing the ongoing row among the doctors and other medical staffers regarding new and old service...

Paramedics’ protest puts OPD patients in limbo

The outdoor patient departments (OPDs) at all major state-run hospitals in the city remained closed on Saturday as doctors, professors and paramedic staff protested...

SZH’s lady doctor fined for ‘wasting court’s time’

The Lahore High Court has imposed a fine on a lady doctor of Sheikh Zayed Hospital for filing a baseless petition against two of...

Doc’s negligence kills baby

The death of a newborn baby in Lady Willingdon Hospital allegedly due to negligence of the doctors infuriated the heirs of deceased and they...