Tag: Healthcare

As like the developed countries in the world, the provision of healthcare must be declared a basic right of the people in Pakistan, who...

The Punjab Healthcare Commission has expressed its inability in initiating an action against anyone because no aggrieved party has filed an application or a...

Emergencies have a crude way of driving home reminders regarding misplaced priorities. The recent outbreak of the dengue fever, particularly in Punjab, has harmed...

Merck, one of the leading international pharmaceutical companies in the world, on Thursday announced providing free healthcare services to rain-affected persons in Sindh by...

Healthcare is frequently suspended, withdrawn or rendered impossible by violent events. A study covering last two and a half year by the International Committee...

Health experts at a seminar on Monday discussed the details of a proposed new healthcare system for the country. Participants of the seminar demanded...

Punjab Health Secretary Jehanzeb Khan has urged upon the principals of medical colleges and chief executives of autonomous medical institutions to come up with...

Despite spending billions of rupees on healthcare facilities in the province, the public still faces a daunting task for getting medical treatment in government-run...

Dozens of buildings and residential quarters of the Pakistan Railways Hospital Mirpurkhas were submerged in knee-deep sewerage water on Sunday, resulting in a cause...

Health Secretary Jehanzeb Khan said that strengthening the primary and secondary healthcare system was vital to minimizing the mortality rate especially in cases of...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Tuesday, expressing annoyance over delay in implementing the Punjab Healthcare Commission Act 2010...

1,300 graduates belonging to different disciplines received their degrees and shields at the second convocation of the Dow University of Health Sciences held...

Like most developing countries, Pakistan too faces enormous challenges in the sphere of reproductive healthcare. Safe delivery of the child and the health of...

A policy-making workshop was organised under the auspices of Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Lahore to prepare proposals for re-organization of service structure of every...

LAHORE - The Punjab government claimed on Monday that that proposed healthcare commission will be an independent and separate entity, completely free of external influence by government and other channels.
"We will appoint a chairman of the commission and separate commissioners, who would be non-controversial and professionals of the highest integrity", Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said adding that the commission would neither recruit serving or retired officers nor

WASHINGTON - After a good end to a not-so-good year, US President Barack Obama faces even tougher challenges in the months ahead as looming fights over spending and healthcare set the stage for a difficult 2012 re-election campaign.
When a new Congress convenes on Wednesday, Obama will be confronted for the first time by a Republican majority in the House of Representatives and a strengthened Republican minority in the Senate.
Whether he strikes deals with those newly

LAHORE: Healthcare is the top most concern of the government, which has already spent billions of rupees on different healthcare projects, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday.
He expressed these views during the inaugurating ceremony of the country's first kidney transplantation project at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital. The PM also announced a grant of Rs 100 million for the operational cost of the project and expressed hope that the funds be utilised "diligently