Tag: Doctors

Young doctors throw tantrum, again

With the announcements of transfer of scores of young doctors from hospitals across Punjab, Punjab Young Doctors’ Association announced strike in Services Hospital yet...

Karachi’s future doctors at high risk of eating disorders

Eating disorders refer to a group of conditions characterised by abnormal eating habits. They involve either insufficient or excessive food intake that is detrimental...

Doctors gear up to showcase their athletic sides

Annual sports festival of Post Graduate Medial Institute and Lahore General Hospital is going to be held today March 17 at Punjab Stadium which...

Young doctors, angry nurses and hapless policemen

Scores of MBBS students from different medical colleges along with the Punjab Young Doctors Association (YDA) ransacked the University of Health Sciences (UHS) after...

Doctors stage comedy of errors

The medical community is divided over the medical tests for detecting dengue among patients resulting in confusion regarding the resurfacing of dengue cases in...

Doctors agitated over pay cut

Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) office bearers Dr M Tanveer Anwar, Dr Izhar Ahmed Chaudhry, Professor Dr M Ashraf Nizami, Dr Shahid Malik, Dr Ihsan...

GCDA doctors ignored, as promotions linger

The General Cadre Doctors Association (GCDA) has pointed out that their doctors, despite being the backbone of health delivery system, have long being ignored...

Defiant doctors continue strike after failed talks with govt

Doctors continued their strike for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday after their talks with the Punjab government went inconclusive. Punjab's Young Doctors Association (YDA)...

In YDA vs govt, the bureaucracy is the culprit

With the Punjab government completely silent on the issue, patients became the real victim as the Punjab Young Doctors Association (YDA) kept the outpatient...

YDA on strike against sacking of senior doctors

The Young Doctors Association in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) continued their strike Wednesday against the sacking of Chief Executive, Medical Superintendent (MS)...

Doctors demand restoration of seniors, block Jail Road

Several doctors from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and Services Hospital protested on the Jail Road under the banner of the Young Doctors...

Indian, Pakistani surgeons perform successful liver transplant

A group of Indian and Pakistani doctors have jointly performed a complicated living donour liver transplant procedure at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital for the...

Karachi doctors continue protesting against non-payment

Doctors and paramedical staff of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Thursday continued their protest against non-payment of salaries for the seventh consecutive day. A large number...

Hospital staff protests against new pay scales

Doctors, nurses, paramedical and clerical staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Poly Clinic and National Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine (NIRM) on Wednesday...

Spurious drugs

Not much regulation The death toll, and this is the notoriously conservative government estimate, has risen to 73. It is expected to go much higher....

Doctors, paramedics continue protest

After their failure to execute the plan of staging a rally in front of the Parliament House on Tuesday, doctors and paramedical staff of...

Patients suffer as doctors continue strike

The authorities of two major Islamabad hospitals have turned a blind eye to the difficulties faced by the patients who come to these hospitals...