Tag: Healthcare

Lack of exercise runs up $67.5 bn annual health tab: study

Health problems caused by a lack of daily physical exercise cost the world some $67.5 billion (61 billion euros) in 2013 — more than...

Punjab govt committed to providing healthcare to children: Rafique

The 11th two-day International Symposium of Children Hospital and Institute of Child Health Lahore started on Friday. Adviser to Chief Minister Punjab on Health,...

PM launches health insurance for the underprivileged

Programme will provide cheap medical care to poor people for seven life-threatening diseases including cardiovascular diseases, hepatitis, diabetes, dialysis and cancer treatment PM says programme...

Half of world’s villagers have no access to healthcare: UN

More than half the population of rural areas worldwide do not have access to basic health care, with four in five rural Africans lacking...

Sindh set to hand some state-run hospitals to NGOs

KARACHI- Modalities to transfer the management control of some government hospitals to reputable Non-government Organizations (NGOs) under the Public Private Partnership initiatives of Sindh Government...

LHC offers healthcare for medical officers

LHC sets termination of medical officers, orders them to join duties within ten days Lahore High Court (LHC) Tuesday set aside termination orders of medical...

US Government fails to meet budget deadline; shuts down

The United States Congress missed the deadline for passing a budget in relation to Obama’s health care law, pushing the United States government to...

Anti Polio Campaign from September 30

The Anti Polio campaign will be initiated all across the Rawalpindi district from September 30. Field teams have been constituted by the health and...

Health secretary for stronger healthcare system

On the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, recommendations have been formulated for the strengthening of primary healthcare system to ensure provision of...

Healthcare institutions should set norms of ethical conduct

Healthcare institutions, pertaining to both public and private sectors in the country need to set common norms and standards of ethical conduct instead of...

Hepatitis becomes global healthcare issue

Shifa International Hospital Chief of Medicine and Gastroenterology Dr Nasir Khokhar said that hepatitis had become a devastating global healthcare issue. Around a million...

Govt delegates healthcare coordination to PHC

The Punjab government on Saturday assigned the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) to provide better healthcare by ensuring effective collaboration and coordination between all relevant...

It is healthcare, not some business!

Fines and other measures have been taken in the recently-introduced draft rules of the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) to ensure proper healthcare for the...

Obama health law faces Republican-led repeal vote

US lawmakers will vote Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, as Republicans unleash a barrage of attacks aimed at inspiring support...

On the YDA strike

For the last three weeks or so, Punjab had witnessed the ever worst healthcare crisis in public sector hospitals. Who should be held responsible...

Govt allocates Rs 4.1b for labourers’ healthcare

Minister Labour Punjab, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has said that the labour department would spend Rs 4.1 billion for the provision of healthcare facilities to...

The Hippocratic Oath

Doctor, heal thyself While the leadership of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) has withdrawn the five day old strike after the intervention of the SC,...