Tag: Health

The second patient, resident of Zhob, suffering from dengue fever has died in Karachi based hospital. “The said patient resident of Zhob town was admitted...

Around 7.5 million Pakistani adults and 15 million children suffer from asthma due to the increasing urban population, enlarging intercity industries, air pollution and...

Malaria and dengue diseases are set to reach peak season in the next few months and the reporting cell for dengue fever has been...

, April 25(Online): Moonis Elahi involved in NICL fraud case was thoroughly checked up by doctors at Punjab Institute of Cardiology(PIC) on...

ISLAMABAD - Eminent health experts and lawmakers here on Tuesday stressed the creation of federal health division to retain national role in health sector after devolution of ministry of health to provinces. They were speaking here on Tuesday in a Legislative forum on 'Health and the 18th Constitutional Amendment' organized by PILDAT and Heartfile, two civil society organization. Speaking on the occasion Dr Nadeem Ehsan, MNA, Chairman National Assembly Standing Committee on Health

CAIRO - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalised this week due to a drop in blood pressure, and his condition is stable, state media reported late Saturday.
Mubarak, who is suspected of involvement in the deaths of anti-regime protesters, was previously reported to have suffered a heart attack during questioning by prosecutors on Tuesday.
But the MENA state news agency reported that the 82-year-old had suffered from a "steep decline in blood pressure" at the

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah urged the provincial Health Department on Friday to expedite the remaining work on completing the ongoing schemes and improving the conditions at health centres working in rural areas.
Shah was presiding over a meeting at the Chief Minister's House.
Shah stressed upon the Health Department officials to pay full attention towards early completion of important ongoing schemes, aimed at providing health facilities to the poor

LAHORE - Despite the fact that health certificates have been made compulsory for food handlers by the City District Government Lahore (CDGL), the law is being violated by influential hotel owners, Pakistan Today has learnt.
After the issuance of computerised food licenses to various food outlets and factories by the CDGL, health certificates had also been made compulsory for all types of food handlers throughout Lahore. But as time passed by, the CDGL has lost interest in this

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought reply within 10 days from the Punjab chief secretary on a petition challenging the appointment of Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad. Usman Ishtiaq filed the petition through his counsel Muhammad Safdar Shaheen, who submitted that Fawad was an officer of grade 19 but was working at the seat of BPS-20. He said Fawad was not only working as health secretary but was also attending a mandatory promotion course at National

LAHORE - A four member Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) delegation headed by Canada's first Secretary Cassie Lee called on Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad in his office on Monday and discussed various ongoing development projects in the health sector. Fawad briefed the delegation about different pro-poor initiatives taken by the government for patients' welfare and said that free diagnostic and treatment facilities were being provided to the patients besides

KARACHI - The provincial Health Department is in the process of adopting a multi-pronged approach to counter the growing threat of drug resistance in hospital settings as well as among the people exposed to irrational medication, said Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed.
He said this while addressing the participants of a health walk arranged on Thursday by the Health Department to observe the World Health Day 2011.
Ahmed said the current year's health day theme 'Combat

LAHORE - Commuters traveling on Main Boulevard, Garden Town are being exposed to severe health hazards because of a dense layer of dust in the area caused by the ongoing construction of Kalma Chowk flyover, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The road is being widened because of the thick traffic flow coming from the Kalma Chowk side, causing a dust layer to form in the area, especially during the rush hours when the traffic flow multiplies. The traffic coming in from the Kalma Chowk side

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Thursday expressed displeasure at the appointment of Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad and summoned the Punjab chief secretary to appear in court in person today (Friday) to explain the deteriorating condition of healthcare in hospitals because of the young doctors' strike.
The chief justice also summoned the Young Doctors Association (YDA) president to explain the legal grounds of the establishment of

ISLAMABAD - Learning its lesson from the young doctors' strike and on the special directive of the presidency, the Ministry of Health has moved a summary to the prime minister office for starting evening classes in all medical colleges to raise the number doctors.
Officials from the health ministry said this here at the meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on Health on Thursday. Secretary Incharge Health Nargis Sethi while briefing the meeting said that in first phase

ISLAMABAD - World Health Day was observed on April 7 across the globe including Pakistan. This year theme of the World Health Day is "Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow."
Each year, the World Health Organization selects a key global health issue and organizes international, regional and local events on the day and throughout the year to highlight the selected area. World Health Day 2011 focuses on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread.

LAHORE - Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad is responsible for "mishandling" the young doctors' issue through "bureaucratic control", as the matter could have been amicably resolved by negotiations on various levels, sources in the civil bureaucracy told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Sources privy to recent developments said various channels could have been used to engage the doctors on strike and bring one of the worst strikes in the health sector's history to an amicable

PESHAWAR - Some unidentified miscreants blew up two government primary schools and a basic health unit in Halimzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency in the wee hours of Tuesday. A source within the political administration told to Pakistan Today that militants destroyed two schools and a basic health unit by explosives.
"The miscreants had planted explosives at the government-run primary schools and healthcare centre that caused partial damage to the buildings," the source said.