Tag: Doctors

LAHORE - The Gulab Devi Hospital is being run by 3 doctors in evening and night shifts and there are only 50 medical officers and 9 house officers to treat more than 1,800 to 2,000 patients around the clock, which is a sheer violation of regulations of the PMDC and a great injustice with patients.
Usually during night shifts in many wards, there is not even a single nurse. YDA Office Bearers including Dr Rana Sohail, Dr Salman Kazmi, Dr Aslam Rao, Dr Talha Sherwani and Dr Nazim

LAHORE - Civil Judge-cum-Magistrate Ayesha Khalid on Tuesday issued arrest warrants of Dr Faisal Amin Baig of the Jinnah Hospital, Dr Khalid Mehmood, registrar Jinnah Hospital, Dr Niaz Ahmed Soomro, senior medical officer Sheikh Zayed Hospital and Dr Ajmal, DMS Lahore General Hospital.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) through its counsel Bilal Bashir had filed a petition against the above-mentioned doctors for making false allegations against PMA Lahore office-bearers and

WAZIRABAD - The only government hospital in Wazirabad, the Tehsi Headquarters hospital, has no gynecologists and lady doctors while several posts of lady doctors (WMOs) and two APMOs are lying vacant. The people are forced to consult private hospitals which charge heavy fees from them.
Particularly, there is not even a single gynecologist for delivery cases. The leaders of Citizens Welfare Council Wazirabad have appealed to the chief minister to appoint lady doctors and

LAHORE - Young Doctors Association (YDA) Central Office Bearers including Dr Rana Sohail, Dr Salman Kazmi, Dr Aslam Rao, Dr Khalid Idrees, Dr Talha Sherwani and Dr Wajid Wazir in a combined press statement strongly protested against decision of the principal Punjab Dental Hospital to stop payment of salaries of FCPS postgraduate trainee doctors for the last two months.
The officer bearers said that the principal indulging in nepotism and the decision to stop payment of salaries

LAHORE - Doctors are the most qualified people in society and they should behave accordingly, Sheikh Zayed Hospital Chairman and Dean Dr Saeed said on Friday. He made these remarks while meeting all doctors of the hospital to reassure them that his office would work as a coordinating office and he wants to facilitate doctors in order to make working environment more conducive.
Saeed was very keen to listen to doctors' problems and promised to solve and rectify them.

LAHORE - The Pakistan Medical Association Punjab chapter provincial council meeting unanimously agreed on Wednesday that the Punjab government needs to announce a special salary package for doctors urgently to stop the brain drain of doctors.
The PMA provincial council meeting was held at PMA House under the chairmanship of Professor M Ashraf Nizami. The office bearers of PMA Lahore, PMA Multan, PMA Gujranwala, PMA Mianwali, PMA Hafizabad, PMA Toba Tek Sing, PMA Faisalabad, PMA

FAISALABAD - Following the frequent arrest and detention of doctors in connection with deaths of patients attributed to mistreatment and negligence, an Islamabad-based professional organization of doctors and physicians has called for a new legislation to protect doctors' rights.
Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) Chairman Dr Shafqat Javed and General Secretary Dr Mumtaz Hussain have demanded a legislation, delegating the authority to prosecute a doctor to a

LAHORE - An 18-member Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) council was constituted on Saturday at the Mayo Hospital Lahore after the combined meeting of the PMA, Young Doctors Association (YDA) and Medical Teachers Association (MTA), which was attended by a large number of senior and young doctors of Mayo Hospital.
Dr Husnain Haider was appointed the convener of the committee. The meeting was presided over by PMA President Dr Muhammad Tanveer Anwar. The meeting was called today to

KARACHI - Doctors working in public sector hospitals across Sindh including Karachi observed a two-hour strike on Friday in response to the call issued by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi against increasing incidents of killings of doctors in the province.
The PMA issued the call for this strike on Thursday during a meeting held at the PMA House to condemn the brutal murder of yet another doctor, Dr Imran Wasi, who was shot dead near the Lyari General Hospital.

KARACHI - All doctors working in public and private hospitals throughout Sindh would observe a strike for two hours today (Friday) to protest against the increasing incidents of murdering doctors.
Only emergency cases would be considered during the strike. However, all wards, the outdoor patients departments, and routine checkups and surgeries would be postponed for two hours.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Karachi announced the strike call on Thursday in a meeting

OKARA - Okara city and its suburban areas are full of quacks who are running about 1,000 clinics around the district where are busy in practicing operation displaying the names of renowned doctors.
High degrees are displayed on the sign boards outside the clinics. Homeopathic doctors are also busy curing the patients by the way of allopathic medicines. The LHVs and the students of nursing schools have also established clinics in their homes. Illegal abortion is also performed on

ISLAMABAD - Rejecting the second medical report about Shazia's death, Senate Standing Committee on Minorities' sub-committee on Monday called all the doctors involved in treating her to appear before the committee in its next meeting.
Shazia, 13-year-old Christian girl, had been allegedly killed by her employer, a Lahore based lawyer, in January 2010. The case is being heard in the Lahore High Court at present after suspects' acquittal from the session court. Allama Iqbal Medical

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Secretary (CS) Nasir Mehmood Khosa on Monday directed the provincial health and finance secretaries to deliberate on demands of young doctors. A delegation of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif a few days ago and presented their demands including a special pay package for doctors, pay protection and increasing slots for doctors on house job. The CM had constituted a committee consisting of all stakeholders to

KARACHI - Thirty-four posts of doctors are lying vacant in Sindh's prisons, where 42 doctors from other departments are working on contract basis.
This was disclosed during a meeting on jail reforms at the Sindh High Court presided over by Justice Amir Muslim Hani, the supervising judge for jail reforms.
Sindh Home Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan, Health Department's representative, Inspector General (IG) Prisons Ghulam Qadir Thebo, the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) medical

Lahore - Senior doctors across the country have sprung to action after the election schedule for the council and the coveted slot of the president, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) has been announced, Pakistan today has learnt.
The CPSP is the only body which conducts post graduate medical training in the country and produces fellows of the college of physicians and surgeons of Pakistan (FCPS). The affairs of the CPSP are run by a 20-member elected council

LAHORE - A delegation of young doctors met Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at CM House on Monday and apprised him of the genuine demands of the young doctors, including the demands of a special pay package and pay protection for doctors.
The meeting was attended by Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hasan Fawad, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Saeed Elahi and MPA Dr Asad Ashraf while the delegation of young doctors consisted of Dr Salman Kazmi, Dr Aslam Rao, Dr Khuda

LAHORE - Lives of patients arriving at the Services Hospital's Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) are in a complete jeopardy, as previous administrator of the SICU has retired and the ward is currently being run by young and inexperienced doctors, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The SCIU was running heedlessly, as more than four months has passed since SICU Incharge Dr Taifoor Gilani had retired. Presently, the ward was being managed by young and inexperienced doctors who were