Tag: Hospitals

Hospitals turning city into a toxic dumping ground

In a gross violation of hospital waste management rules, public hospitals and scores of private clinics have been playing a major role in defiling...

Trial survey to be held to purge allied hospitals of rats,...

The allied hospitals have asked private contractors to hold a trail survey to purge the hospitals from vermin. According to sources, the district administration had...

Essential equipment missing in Jinnah Hospital’s labour room

The 13-bed labour room of the Jinnah Hospital, where around 50 deliveries are performed every day, lacks the required facilities and equipment to sustain...

Doctors to stage long march today for service structure approval

Young doctors from all the government hospitals of Punjab province will stage long march today (Tuesday) to press for their long standing demand for...

No medicines in Rawalpindi hospitals

The patients of three allied hospitals of Rawalpindi, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, District Headquarters Hospital and Holy Family Hospital, were faced with an acute shortage...

Doctors resume work at government hospitals in Balochistan after 3-day strike

Patients took a sigh of relief as doctors in out patient departments (OPDs) and operation theatres of government-run hospitals resumed activities on Friday, after...

Special desk to be established in govt hospitals for the disabled

A special desk would be established in all government hospitals to provide free medical treatment to `Persons with Disabilities’ (PWDs) on priority. “Special identity cards...

No CT scan machines in major hospitals

Contrary to the claims of the Punjab government to provide healthcare facilities to the poor, CT scan machines in all the major hospitals of...

Quetta doctors call off strike

The Balochistan doctors Thursday called off their protracted strike causing long queues of patients at the outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of the government hospitals. However,...

Govt moves to check brain drain

KMC Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed has said that doctors, professors, specialists and medical staff associated with the hospitals, dispensaries and maternity homes run by...

Punjab govt to set up camps at hospitals

The Punjab government has announced that it would set up camps at all government hospitals to provide speedier medical service to patients. The strike has...

YDA continues strike on 12th consecutive day

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued their strike on 12th consecutive day on Friday in government hospitals across Punjab against the non-acceptance of their...

KPK Govt to kick off anti dengue drive

Following the epidemic of Dengue fever outbreak in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, the provincial government has directed the health department to provide medical treatment of the...

Young doctors’ strike enters 4th day

The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab's strike against not getting service structure has entered fourth day on Thursday. The YDA also vowed to extend the...

Four more cancer hospitals to start functioning by June end

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) is in process of establishing four more cancer hospitals in the country to ensure treatment to patients through modern...

Shifa urges complete ban on tobacco

As many as 5000 people in the country are admitted to hospitals everyday due to tobacco-related diseases. Some 274 die daily and more than...

YDA threatens to protest against Punjab govt, issues timeline

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab has announced a phased protest culminating in the shut down of the outpatient department in city hospitals on...