Tag: Medicines

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed the authorities concerned to ensure the availability of medicines in DHQ/THQ Hospitals and health centers in Punjab. The chief...

Punjab Health Department on Saturday dismissed services of 55 doctors‚ including specialist doctors‚ who were found negligent of their duties and challenging the writ...

Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab on Wednesday continued the hunger strike on the third day leaving about a dozen of protesting doctors in deteriorated...

The prices of medicines and medical services went up in October as compared with the previous month. Disprin (10-tablets), Panadol (10-tablets), urine test (routine...

The prices of medicines and medical services went up in October as compared with the previous month. Disprin (10-tablets), Panadol (10-tablets), urine test (routine...

A number of pharmaceutical companies in the country have increased the drug prices by as much as 50-80%. Some of the drugs are...

This is apropos of the woes of patients who have to go from pillar to post to search the brands of medicine prescribed by...

Due to the rapid increase in hypertension and cardiac diseases, the number of patients visiting the Punjab Institute of Cardiology has increased drastically. ...

The Supreme Court (SC) Lahore Registry on Monday heard suo moto case regarding the strike by the Young Doctors Association (YDA) and also took...

Spurious medicines claimed one more life on Saturday, taking the death toll to 142. Bashiran Bibi (70) died at Mayo Hospital after medicine reaction, doctors...

Patients with different ailments, especially heart-related, are in a fix over whether to purchase local medicines or not after scores of heart patients lost...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday constituted a five-member committee to investigate into the pilferage of medicines from government hospitals. The committee will take...

With the Young Doctor’s Association (YDA) observing a strike at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), it is feared that the second major...

The first phase of Gujranwala Institute of Nuclear Medicines (GINUM) has been completed with a cost of Rs 360 million and has started diagnosis...

Pakistan officials are looking into the medicines recovered from the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad with the help of experts to determine...

Health Executive District Officer (EDO) team raided a Public Call Office (PCO) in front of Jinnah Hospital’s emergency ward and seized hospital-marked medicines worth...

QUETTA - Officials in government departments are working with the manufacturers and sellers of fake, sub-standard and spurious medicines in the country, especially in Balochistan.
Fake medicines are prepared in Orangi Town and Kachi Galli of Karachi, Pashtoonabad, Marriabad and adjoining areas of the provincial metropolis, sources within the Health department said, adding that anti-social elements filled wheat flour in empty capsules and coloured chemical water in bottles,