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The oncology department of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) does not have an isolation ward to accommodate cancer patients after conducting chemotherapy owing...

Nearly 25,000 patients in the city suffered on Wednesday as the outpatient department (OPD) of all public hospitals remained shut owing to the strike...

A large number of hepatitis C patients are suffering because of a shortage of vaccination in public hospitals, Pakistan Today has learnt. Hospitals have...

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah urged the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Saturday to help the government ensure that the doctors transferred to...

Tens of thousands of patients and their relatives were left in a lurch as professors, doctors, nurses and paramedics of three major public hospitals...

LAHORE - Indoor patients who were discharged from various hospitals after the doctors' strike are still vying for re-admission, as doctors are not attending to patients in the outdoor patient departments (OPD), while only severely critical patients are being admitted to emergency wards, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A large number of patients admitted to all major hospitals were asked to go back home owing to the strike by doctors who suspended even the indoor facilities. However,

LAHORE - Gynaecology patients have become a shuttlecock between the public sector hospitals and private hospitals owing to the strike by Young Doctors Association (YDA). A number of pregnant women were referred to private hospitals. A patient expired during YDA's attempt to dislodge the doctors on duty at Mayo Hospital. A YDA office-bearer from Mayo Hospital and his fellows entered Lady Willingdon Hospital and threatened the doctors on duty. Lady Willingdon Hospital (LWH) is

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 - Hundreds of patients suffered as the strike of Punjab's doctors continues for an increase in salaries on Thursday.
The ongoing strike has completed a month of protests in which the Young Doctors Association (YDA) demonstrated outside hospitals and administered treatment to patients in medical camps there.
Routine duty in several teaching hospitals of the province, including those in Lahore, is suspended due to the strike.
The YDA said the strike will continue

LAHORE - Young doctors have decided to protest once again on Tuesday as Pakistan Today learnt on Monday that at least one million patients have suffered due to the ongoing strikes of the doctors for enhanced salary packages. On Monday, the young doctors decided to stage a sit-in front of the Chief Minister's House and observe a complete strike in Out-Patient Departments (OPD) in all public sector hospitals as part of their ongoing protests.
Health Department sources disclosed to

ISLAMABAD - The two computerised tomography (CT) scan machines at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) were out of order and the number of patients at private clinics and laboratories of the doctors concerned at this hospital was increasing manifold, a source in the radiology department of PIMS told Pakistan Today. The source said there were only two CT scan machines in the hospital and both had been out of order for the last six months because of poor maintenance. The

LAHORE - A large number of patients and their relatives protested against the negative attitude of doctors who refused to treat them on Friday and they demanded Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad take stern action against the doctors. The patients from all over the province especially Sheikhpura, Gujranwala, Narowal, Kasoor and Sialkot faced a lot of problems because of the young doctors' strike. A retired teacher, Arshad Khokhar, who had come

ISLAMABAD - Despite having national plans for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) control the number of patients are increasing manifold as 30 new cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and 4,366 confirmed cases of TB were reported from all over the Pakistan during December last year. These figures have been revealed by FAFEN an NGO in its monthly Health Scan, a report based on the compilation of data of the cases of a selection of diseases collected by the Offices of Executive

LAHORE - The young doctors managed to pull-off the first day of the street check-up strike on Monday. They provided outdoor patient department (OPD) services to patients on the streets by setting up medical camps, while simultaneously protesting for the pay raise. The doctors, with black bands wrapped on their arms, set up camps outside all government hospitals including Mayo Hospital, General Hopsital, Children Hospital, Services Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Jinnah Hospital.

Lahore - The Punjab Young Doctors Association's (PYDA) General Council (GC) decided after observing a three-day strike in outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of all city hospitals to resume OPD service not in the hospitals but on the roads adjacent to the hospitals on Friday.
All PYDA presidents have been directed to start the OPD service on the roads from Monday till the PYDA's next decision. The PYDA General Council said they did not want poor patients to suffer. This decision

LAHORE - Patients continued to suffer as the outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of major hospitals across the city remained closed for the third consecutive day on Thursday owing to the strike announced by the Young Doctors Association (YDA) for a salary raise.
The situation was the worst in Jinnah Hospital where a complete strike was observed with even the operation theatres not working. All hospitals except Lady Willington Hospital, Lady Aitchison Hospital and the Punjab

KARACHI - Pakistan Society, a Karachi-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) dealing with healthcare and social services, has planned to take out a long march from Karachi to Garhi Khuda Bakhsh on March 10 for HIV/AIDS patients and other neglected members of the society.
Moreover, the NGO managers have also threatened to commit self-immolation in case their demands are not met or if any breakdown occurs before they reach their destination.
The Pakistan Society president