Tag: Medicine

Medicine shortage hits govt hospitals in Punjab

LAHORE: The Punjab government’s health service department has landed in an unprecedented supply crisis. According to details, the state-run hospitals in Punjab have been suffering from...

Gynaecologists, dermatologists, paediatricians among most searched medical professions in Pakistan: study

According to a recent analysis of internet searches carried out by oladoc.com, a digital health company in Pakistan, it was revealed that 38 per...

Laughing at oneself improves mental well-being

People who frequently crack jokes about themselves to gain approval of others have greater levels of psychological well-being, a study has found. The findings,...

‘Regional committee meeting help develop Pakistan positive image’

    ISLAMABAD: National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHS&R) Minister Saira Afzal Tarar on Wednesday said that the successful conclusion of the regional committee meeting...

Govt authorises import of ‘game-changing’ Hepatitis-C drug from US

The government has authorised the import of an expensive Hepatitis-C drug from the United States to improve treatment for the estimated eight million people...

Pharmaceutical companies can’t blackmail govt: Saira Afzal

Pharmaceutical companies refused to talk to govt leaving Saira Tarar continued to wait Pharmaceutical companies, after getting a stay order from the courts on the...

Medicines prices increased after SHC granted stay order, NA told

  Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar on Wednesday apprised the National Assembly that the multinational pharmaceutical companies have increased...

Iraqis running out of food and medicine in besieged Falluja

A senior Iraqi official has appealed to the US-led coalition to air-drop food and medicine to tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Falluja,...

Probe into medicine theft cases in HFH ordered

Rawalpindi Holy Family Hospital (HFH) medical superintendent (MS) has ordered enquiry into three medicines theft cases in the hospital. In the first case, drips worth...

Family medicine moot from February 1

Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians has arranged International Family Medicine Conference to be held from February 1 to 3 at a local hotel here....

Shifa Medical College holds 10th convocation

Shifa College of Medicine (SCM), affiliated with Bahria University Islamabad, held its 10th convocation on Saturday at the Bahria University Auditorium in which 94...

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...

Stolen medicines recovered

A special team of Punjab Health Department on Saturday seized stolen government medicines worth millions of rupees from a truck stand in Gujranwala and...

Doctor, heal thyself

  Promotions over patients? Writing somewhere in the late 5th Century BC, Hippocrates (widely regarded as the father of modern medicine) penned down an oath in...

Availability of medicines to be ensured: minister

Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has stressed that availability of medicines of gastroenteritis and diarrhea be ensured in the hospitals in the province. He...

Dow University organises farewell for Prof Dr Rana Qamar

Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in order to pay tribute to its teaching faculty and Professor of Medicine, Prof Rana Qamar on her...

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,...