Tag: Health

KARACHI - The alleged cross-contamination of edible and inedible cargoes at local seaports is posing not only a health hazard to consumers, but is also hurting Pakistan's image as an exporting country in the market.
According to well placed sources, the Port Qasim Authority (PQA), in a sheer violation of international best practices, is allowing the "simultaneous" handling of edible and inedible exportable and imported commodities at Port Qasim.
They said the vessels,

Lahore - The Punjab Health Department and UNICEF signed a two-year work plan 2011-12 worth $17.72 million on Saturday. The work plan is based on the agreement between the federal government and UNICEF while its main focus is to address the key issues related to timely achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) particularly those related to child and maternal health and nutrition.
Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said that the main objectives of the work plan

LAHORE - One way to ensure Pakistan's families are better off and fewer people are living in poverty is by meeting the reproductive health needs. Women are the primary caretakers of their children and families, but also make an important contribution to the household as well as the national economy, making up one third of the labour force.
Gross national income (GNI) per person increased considerably from 380 USD to 2300 USD per person in 2005, for example. However while the

KARACHI - DuPont Pakistan Operations, under the DuPont Community Fund Program (DCF), collaborated with Naya Jeevan to provide health insurance plan coverage to almost 250 SOS village children and 100 resident mothers and domestic staff. Naya Jeevan is a non-profit social enterprise, dedicated to rejuvenating the lives of urban, low-income families throughout Pakistan by providing them with affordable access to quality healthcare.

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken concrete measures for promotion of medical education, welfare of doctors and provision of best medical facilities to the people, Punjab Assembly (PA) Speaker Rana Iqbal said on Saturday. He was addressing the 4th Convocation of the Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI).
The PA speaker said that the doors of medical education were opened for poor but talented students by abolishing seats of self finance. He said that the

Lahore - The next anti-polio campaign starting from March 7 will be a test for all district health officers (DHO) and zero tolerance would be adopted against poor performing officers, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Saturday.
He was addressing the DHO conference. Fawad said that poor performance of officers would not be tolerated at the cost of sufferings of children.
The conference reviewed progress of various ongoing programmes including Mother,

NEW DELHI - India's Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata is drawing up plans to offer free medical check-ups to fans in a bid to fill the ground during the World Cup, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Eden Gardens has been left with three games not involving the home nation after the India v England clash on Sunday was moved to Bangalore as the venue was not ready on time.
"We have decided to do something benevolent for the spectators. Our president is in talks with private

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken steps for the development and welfare of the doctors, nurses and other officials working in health sector and on his directions the Health Department has regularised about 5,000 doctors besides, promoting hundreds of medical officers, said Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad on Thursday.
He was chairing a meeting to review measures taken for the health sector development and doctors' welfare. He said 1,135 medical officers

ISLAMABAD - Contrary to the tall claims of health ministry that it provides comprehensive health cover to the masses, the capital city hospitals have only one mortuary and that too with insufficient capacity to cater to the needs of people in an emergency situation effectively.
One mortuary in the capital city is built in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), one of Islamabad's major government run hospital and it has the capacity to accommodate only 10 dead bodies.

RABAT - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive and in "excellent shape", its foreign minister said on Thursday after rumours about the king's health triggered a spike in the price of oil. Abdullah, around 87, has been resting in Morocco since January following a two-month stay in the US where he underwent surgery twice after a blood clot complicated a slipped disc, state media have said.
"I'd like to reassure you about the health of the king. He is in excellent

ISLAMABAD - The provinces on Thursday refused to bear the expenses of national health programmes after the devolution of the Ministry of Health, endangering the programmes of lady health workers, polio, hepatitis control and seven others. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Health reviewed the state of affairs of the Ministry of Health after its devolution under the 18th Amendments in the presence of the secretaries for health of the four provinces, Azad Kashmir and

FAISALABAD - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has revealed that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has allocated Rs 14.50 billion for various health projects in the province. He was speaking at Circuit House Faisalabad after a briefing on the progress of the proposed second medical college in Faisalabad.
Punjab Medical College Principal Professor Dr Riaz Hussain Dubb briefed the audience that included Divisional Commissioner Tahir Hussain, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Nasim

LAHORE - United Nation's Fund for Population Affairs (UNFPA) will cooperate for improving health facilities in Punjab's rural areas and will provide financial assistance for making the rural health centres functional. These views were expressed by the members of a delegation of UNFPA while talking to the Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad in a meeting on Wednesday.
The delegation comprised of UNFPA representatives; Rabbi Royan, Provincial Head Dr Jameel and Project

LAHORE - The Punjab Health Department 'tried' to overcome the financial constraint by reducing non-development expenditure, and despite financial crunch, services delivery system was not affected and special attention was being paid to provide medical facilities to the people, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Tuesday.
He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) Review Mission at the Civil Secretariat. Yasim Elahan

KARACHI - The Sindh government has announced that the anti-polio drive in the province would be launched from February 2, but confusion still persists over lady health workers' (LHW) participation in the drive after the Sindh chapter of the workers' association refused to return to work till their salary dues were not cleared.
The anti-polio drive was scheduled to start on January 31, but was postponed after LHWs went on strike, saying that the government had not given them

CHAMAN - A Non Government Organisation run health centre in the border town of Chaman was detonated at the night between Saturday and Sunday.
Chaman Assistant Commissioner Habibullah Khan told reporters that the blast damaged the building of the MSN funded health centre, breaking windowpanes and destroyed goods but caused no casualty.

JOHANNESBURG - After heaving a sigh of relief at the news that Nelson Mandela had been discharged from hospital, South Africans turned to asking Saturday why there had been a two-day shroud of silence on his health. Mandela was discharged from Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Friday, ending almost 48 hours of anxiety that began Wednesday afternoon when his foundation said the 92-year-old anti-apartheid hero was in hospital for "routine tests".
When the government finally broke