Tag: Health

PESHAWAR - To revive health facilities in the tribal region, FATA Development Programme - Livelihood Development (FDP-LD) on Tuesday handed over medical equipment worth Rs 24 million to the FATA Health Services Directorate.
The handover of 86 items of equipment included medical, surgical and diagnostic equipment that will be shared among six health facilities in FATA. The aim of the handover is to rehabilitate health services and improve community health services. The total value

ISLAMABAD - Because of the rainy spell earlier this year, the inhabitants of Islamabad are facing an intense pollen season. Usually allergy patients suffer from the middle to the end of March, however this year the rains delayed the shedding of paper mulberry pollens, which intensified the problem. With the advent of spring in the federal capital, the number of pollen allergy patients visiting the city's hospitals and clinics increased significantly.
Pakistan Institute of

ISLAMABAD - The Lady Health Workers Association (LHWA) announced a countrywide strike from today till 50 lady health workers (LHWs) arrested for staging a sit-in at the National Highway near Obaro, Sindh were released.
LHWA head Bushra Arain announced at a press conference on Sunday that the LHWs would continue the protest till their demands were met. She demanded the government release the arrested LHWs and increase their salaries as ordered by the Supreme Court. She said the

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday approved the promotion of Health Chief Dr Qazi Abdus Saboor to the post of health director general. "The PM, on the recommendation of the Central Selection Board (CSB), has approved the promotion of Health Chief Dr Qazi Abdus Saboor to the post of health director general BS-21, Ministry of Health, Islamabad," said an

HAFIZABAD - The Punjab government is spending Rs 150 million for providing health care to the people of district Hafizabad. Hafizabad District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Asif said this while addressing an inaugural ceremony of a newly installed dialyses machine at the kidney centre denoted by philanthropist Qaiser Hanif Chaudhry, a resident of Jalapur Bhattian.
He said sufficient medicines were being supplied to all the hospitals of the district at a cost of Rs 60

KARACHI - The Seventh Health Asia 2011 International Exhibition and conference concluded on Thursday after a successful three-day extravaganza at Karachi Expo Centre. A conference was held on the third day to discuss recent advances in dermatology, with Dr Najia Ashraf and Dr Sameera talking about common issues such as acne, eczema and hyper pigmentation.
The Sindh Health Department also established its pavilion at the exhibition; officials focused on creating awareness regarding

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan ranks sixth globally among 22 high disease burden countries with 0.7 million cases of tuberculosis. Studies show government's failure to curb spread of TB as over 400,000 new cases are reported every year. World Tuberculosis Day is being marked today (on 24 March), with the aim to build public awareness about the epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease. Today tuberculosis causes the deaths of about 1.6 million people each year. In Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has referred Rs 110 million embezzlement case of defunct Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) to the National Accountability Bureau. The project deprecator Irfanullah and a few of his aides have been accused of scam.
TPP was a Musharraf era pilot health project (2003-2005). According to FIA sources, project director Irfanullah was still at large but the agency had arrested some of his accomplices involved in making fraudulent purchases

KARACHI - The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) has expressed concern over an explosion due to accumulation of methane gas at the Sorange coal mine in Balochistan, resulting in the death of 45 of the 52 miners working at the mine at the time of the explosion. In a statement issued on Monday, PILER Executive Director Karamat Ali expressed serious concern over the absence of an effective occupational health and safety policy in the country, resulting in deaths

KARACHI - Health Asia 2011, an international exhibition and conference, is set to kick off today at the Karachi Expo Centre.

ISLAMABAD - On the directives of National Assembly Standing Committee on Health, Ministry of Health here on Friday conducted a crackdown against spurious drugs and cancelled registration of 283 drugs and rejected application for 17 others.
A decision to this effect was taken in the 230th meeting of the ministry's Drugs Registration Board a few days back. These drugs were found either substandard, adulterated or not in conformity with the Drugs Act 1976.
Last month, the

LAHORE - District Nankana has won award for being the top performer consecutively for the third consecutive year. The initiative is a part of the efforts by the Punjab Health Department in collaboration with Micronutrient Initiative (MI) to eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) through Universal Salt Iodisation Programme (USIP). Bhakkar and Mandi Bahauddin attained second and third spots respectively.

The danger of radiation leaks from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is rising after explosions at the site caused by Japan's earthquake and tsunami, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said today.
As of 10:22am local time, radiation as high as 400 millisieverts was detected at the plant's No. 3 reactor, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a briefing. That's 20 times the annual limit for nuclear industry employees and uranium miners, according to the World

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Health Department has six field vans, four ambulances at the districts headquarters hospital and a large number of other new vehicles that are rusting at the district health officer's office while the authorities are inquiring an embezzlement of Rs 2.8 million as well.
Reportedly, the provincial government provided 15 luxurious vehicles to local health authorities out of which one landcruiser was for the executive district officer (health), another for the

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday telephoned PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in London to inquire about his wife's health. Zardari prayed for the early recovery of Nawaz's wife.
The PML-N chief thanked the president for the kind gesture and for sending Pakistan's High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan to receive him and his family at the London airport.

LAHORE - A two-day health symposium concluded at the Post Graduate Medical Institute on Sunday in which more than 400 doctors and senior specialists participated.
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Vice-Chancellor Ahmed Jan Durrani was the chief guest on the occasion. Around 13 pre-symposium workshops of various medical and surgical disciplines were held out of which three were exclusively for nurses and paramedical staff. Addressing the symposium's concluding

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Health is engaged in formulating a new drugs pricing policy whereas the fate of Drugs Registration Authority (DRA) and Drug Control Organisation (DCO), the two major bodies meant to implement it, is hanging in balance after the devolution of the ministry to the provinces. The Ministry of Health a few days back had proudly announced that the country would soon have new drug pricing policy which was being formulated in consultation with all the stakeholders