Tag: Hepatitis
Fehmida urges WHO, others to create awareness among masses against Hepatitis
National Assembly Speaker, Dr Fehmida Mirza has urged the World Health Organization, World Health Departments and NGOs working in the Health Sector for concerted...
Punjab govt has no funds for hepatitis patients
A large number of hepatitis C patients are suffering because of a shortage of vaccination in public hospitals, Pakistan Today has learnt. Hospitals have...
Hospitals get hepatitis vaccine
LAHORE -
Interferon injections and medicines for hepatitis C treatment were provided to government hospitals last week according to their treatment load, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Thursday.
He said that since treatment of hepatitis C was very expensive and time-consuming, hospital administrations have been directed to ensure completion of a six-month treatment course of patients who were already under treatment.
Fawad said that approval has
Interferon injections and medicines for hepatitis C treatment were provided to government hospitals last week according to their treatment load, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Thursday.
He said that since treatment of hepatitis C was very expensive and time-consuming, hospital administrations have been directed to ensure completion of a six-month treatment course of patients who were already under treatment.
Fawad said that approval has
Hepatitis vaccines worth Rs 1bn stolen from NIH?
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Health was stunned to hear on Friday that hepatitis vaccines worth Rs 1 billion have been stolen from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the case has been forwarded to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for inquiry.
Committee chairwoman Kalsoom Parveen expressed doubts whether the vaccines had even been bought in the first place, saying that perhaps the purchase was only shown on papers. She said that 17 official vehicles of
Committee chairwoman Kalsoom Parveen expressed doubts whether the vaccines had even been bought in the first place, saying that perhaps the purchase was only shown on papers. She said that 17 official vehicles of
‘Vested interests’ depriving the poor of low-cost hepatitis treatment
LAHORE
Bureaucratic red-tapism motivated by "vested interests" is creating hindrances in the clinical trial of locally manufactured interferon - a cure for deadly hepatitis - causing losses of millions of rupees to the national exchequer and depriving the poor of cheap treatment, Pakistan Today learnt on Thursday.
A group of researchers working at the Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), Centre of Applied Molecular Biology and the Allama Iqbal Medical College
Bureaucratic red-tapism motivated by "vested interests" is creating hindrances in the clinical trial of locally manufactured interferon - a cure for deadly hepatitis - causing losses of millions of rupees to the national exchequer and depriving the poor of cheap treatment, Pakistan Today learnt on Thursday.
A group of researchers working at the Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), Centre of Applied Molecular Biology and the Allama Iqbal Medical College
