Tag: Doctors

Health minister dismisses nine doctors from service

Sindh Health minister Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar dismissed 9 doctors from their services on Sunday due to their long absence without any intimation. Dr Sofia,...

Protesting medics, thrashed, tortured for pressing for risk allowance

Police baton charge, beat up protesting paramedics as they sought to march towards PM Secretariat The police on Tuesday brutally tortured and baton-charged the protesting...

Tanzania bans witch doctors to deter albino killings

Tanzania has banned witch doctors in a bid to curb a rising wave of attacks and murders of albinos whose body parts are prized...

Salary-less JPMC’s neuro doctors tired of admin’s mind games

Employees of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC)’s Neurosurgery Department Wednesday staged a protest outside the JPMC director’s office against non-payment of their three-month salaries. Dozens...

Promote us, we are about to die now!

Senior doctors await promotion to BS-20, junior ones granted higher ranks after PSB meeting   LARKANA PPI   Some deserving doctors have been deprived of recent promotions of health...

Doctors tremble as the little one buzzes

Doctors fear a rise in dengue fever cases this year owing to poor preventive measures The Health Department has lagged behind in taking sufficient preventive...

Baloch says no to pressure on doctors’ transfers

  Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch on Saturday has said that the government and health department of the province will not be...

Balochistan doctors refuse to treat patients

Doctors across Balochistan on Saturday announced suspension of their services in all government-run hospitals as part of their protest for the recovery of Dr...

Doctors continue strike in Quetta against non recovery of abducted fellow

On Tuesday the doctors of Quetta continued strike, the sixth consecutive day as abducted Dr Abdul Manaf could not be recovered. Dr Abdul Manaf, ...

Doctor’s abduction: Balochistan doctors boycott duties in government hospitals

Doctors on Thursday went on strike in government hospitals across Balochistan in protest against their senior colleague’s kidnapping from Quetta. Cardiologist Dr. Munaf...

Saudi Sharif’s doctors cure 25 dengue affectees

Doctors at the Saudi Sharif Group of Hospitals Saturday claimed to have cured 25 dengue patients. “25 patients have been cured and they were discharged...

PHC orders action against negligent doctors

The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has referred the cases of three senior doctors to the Health Department (PHD) for disciplinary action after receiving complaints...

‘Doctors killed our children’

Three children’s death incite protest against negligence at Children’s Hospital     Scores of people blocked Ferozepur Road on Wednesday, in a protest against the alleged negligence...

4 trainee doctors ‘disappear’ in Lakki Marwat

Four trainee doctors disappeared in Lakki Marwat’s Tajazai area late on Tuesday night when they were on their way to Dera Ismail Khan from...

Doctors finding more cases of advanced breast cancer in younger women

Advanced breast cancer has increased slightly among young women, a 34-year analysis suggests. The disease is still uncommon among women younger than 40, and...

Doctors arrested for illegal kidney removals

Two doctors accused of removing kidneys while operating upon patients without the latter’s permission were arrested on Tuesday by Baghbanpura police. Baghbanpura SHO Mazhar Iqbal...

What do they want now?

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Thursday started protests outside public hospitals in an attempt to pressurise the government to change the decision taken...