Tag: Hospitals

LAHORE - Various teaching hospitals of Punjab are returning to normal after a 38 days strike called by young doctors demanding a substantial increase in their salaries came to end. Patients were treated in emergencies and outdoor patients departments while major and minor surgical procedures were also performed by doctors expect at Services Hospital and Children's Hospital, where a number of patients faced a lot of difficulties during treatment.
According to sources, around 2,200

ISLAMABAD - More than 90 percent of hospitals at the tehsil and taluka level across the country do not have specialised healthcare services to cater to the needs of patients with skin and ENT diseases. The figures were disclosed in a report released by Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Friday after visits to 46 THQs in 39 districts nationwide during February.
Twenty two THQs were visited in 17 districts of Punjab, 13 in 12 districts of KP, nine in eight districts of Sindh

FAISALABAD - As the young doctors' strike for pay raise entered 40th day, the Punjab government, taking serious notice of patients' sufferings and deaths, has launched a recruitment campaign to replace the striking doctors.
In Faisalabad, outpatients departments and other wards in Allied Hospital, Civil Hospital and Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC) have been abandoned by the young doctors, causing chaos in patients' management. The Punjab health secretary has set up a

KARACHI - Twenty-three-year-old Zain*, a Catholic Christian, was admitted to the emergency ward of the Civil Hospital Karachi after he was shot and wounded as a passer-by in a crossfire. While his worried parents and sister stood around waiting for the doctor's verdict, men in green turbans and high shalwars swooped down on Zain. "Brother, you must denounce your infidel ways. Kalma parhein (recite the Kalma)," they told the young man who was barely conscious and obviously in immense

LAHORE - The Punjab Health Department has decided to provide free diagnostic facilities at all government hospitals, Punjab Health Director General Dr Aslam Chaudhry said on Thursday. He was addressing an awareness seminar on dengue fever at the Institute of Public Health (IPH). IPH Dean Dr Yaqoob Qazi, Punjab Chief Bacteriologist Dr Zarfishan Tahir and Professor Kokab Aslam also spoke on the occasion. Aslam said that the IPH is also providing diagnostic facility for this purpose.

KARACHI - The majority of the anaesthetists working at private hospitals across Sindh are unqualified, and the Health Department has so far been unable to take action against them, Health Secretary Hashim Raza Zaidi admitted on Saturday.
"We are planning to take action against them, as well as the hospitals that allow unqualified medical personnel to practice," Zaidi said while addressing the inaugural session of the 31st Annual Congress of the Pakistan Society of

Lahore - The Punjab Health Department has asked all teaching hospitals to provide at least 100 employees each to take part in the polio eradication campaign starting shortly. The health department has also made a similar demand to district headquarters hospitals (DHQs) to assign employees for the same cause. A circular has been distributed from the health department to all teaching hospitals and DHQs. Hospitals and DHQs subsequently started preparing lists of the employees they can

Lahore - The outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of key hospitals of the city remained closed on Wednesday because junior doctors abiding by the strike, announced by the Young Doctors Association (YDA), refused to accommodate incoming patients.
Hospitals affected by the strike include Mayo Hospital, Ganga Ram Hospital, Services Hospital, Children Hospital and Jinnah Hospital. After taking to the streets on early Tuesday the YDA had announced a strike in all hospitals throughout

LAHORE - Women doctors of the THQ Hospital Mozang went on a strike on Thursday over manhandling of a colleague by father of a patient and "rude" behaviour of the hospital medical superintendent (MS) after the incident. According to details, Dr Humaira was performing her duties two days ago when a pregnant woman reached the hospital with her father. Doctors alleged that the patient's father manhandled Humaira despite the fact that the delivery had taken place without any problem. They

ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of poor patients visiting the government run hospitals in the capital city suffer immensely because of faulty x-rays and test machines and the doctors remain oblivious to their condition. A large number of patients are forced to visit government hospitals daily because of abject poverty as they cannot afford private hospitals or clinics.
During a survey of two major government run hospitals in Islamabad, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and

LAHORE - The newly-constructed dermatology in-door unit at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital was inaugurated on Saturday by the hospital's Board of Management Chairman Justice (r) Mehboob Ahmed. The unit has been completed by financial assistance of various philanthropists at cost of more than Rs 5 million.
The dermatology unit has 21 beds capacity including 8 male, 11 female and 2 in ICU wards. Principal Dr Rakhshanda, MS Dr Ijaz Sheikh and other faculty members attended the inaugural

KARACHI - The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has cancelled the leaves of its officials belonging to essential service departments - including high-ranking officers and staff - so that they can perform their duty on 12th Rabiul Awwal today (Wednesday). Emergency has been declared at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and New Karachi Hospital and all medical and paramedical staff has been directed to attend duties on Wednesday.
Ambulance service 1122 will be available in

LAHORE - Mayo Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Tuesday received around 75 injured and 10 dead bodies including four policemen, one woman, one minor and five others after the Tuesday's suicide bombing.
Rescue 1122, Edhi Foundation, Pakistan Red Crescent Society and other welfare organisation ambulances transported the bodies and injured. The injured included seven policemen, children and passers-by. Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent Zahid Pervaiz said 22 injured were

Lahore - The emergency entrance of the Services Hospital has not yet been broadened despite Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaaz Sharif's approval. Many critical patients continue to suffer and often die in the ambulances, owing to the choked service lane.
Almost a year has passed that the CM granted the amendment of the slip lane adjacent to Services Hospital, but the city administration has failed to implement CM's orders. Patients continue to face difficulty in receiving first

LAHORE - Health Parliamentary Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi said though electricity generators have been provided to hospitals on the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif but hospitals should be exempted from gas load shedding as Punjab can not produce gas.
In a press statement, he said that electricity and gas crisis has not only damaged the national economy but has affected thousands of patients under treatment in various hospitals. He said a discriminatory attitude

LAHORE - Public hospitals across Punjab lack the facility to diagnose H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, as cases with the deadly virus have started surfacing in other parts of the country, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to details, the disease is called swine flu because of its similarity with influenza viruses which infect pigs. It is also one of the droplet infections and is highly contagious. Those infected with the virus have either inhaled droplets that have

LAHORE - Lives of patients arriving at the Services Hospital's Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) are in a complete jeopardy, as previous administrator of the SICU has retired and the ward is currently being run by young and inexperienced doctors, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The SCIU was running heedlessly, as more than four months has passed since SICU Incharge Dr Taifoor Gilani had retired. Presently, the ward was being managed by young and inexperienced doctors who were