Tag: Pims

Lack of facilities, unhygienic conditions at PIMS adding to patients’ woes

Hospital gives a look of a refugee camp as the attendants of patients have set up tents on lawn of the facility to...

Patients facing enormous hardships at PIMS gynae department

ISLAMABAD: Poor pregnant women are passing through a great ordeal as they are forced to stand in long queues for hours outside the Pakistan...

CCLC approves bill to separate PIMS from SZABMU

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee for Disposal of Legislative Cases (CCLC) has approved the proposed draft bill to amend the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical...

PIMS staff protest continues

ISLAMABAD: Medical and para-medical staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Friday continued their protest in favour of their demands. Addressing the participants...

PIMS doctors continue strike; over 800 operations postponed

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) doctors and paramedical staff’s protest, demanding separation of the hospital from Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, on...

PIMS employees to hold protest at D-Chowk 

ISLAMABAD: Owing to the sufferings being faced by the patients, employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) have decided to review their protest...

Patients continue to suffer as PIMS employees protest enters 5th day

ISLAMABAD: Employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) continued their protests for the fifth consecutive day and vowed that their protest will continue...

Mock fire-fighting exercise held at PIMS BCC

ISLAMABAD: In a first of its kind in a public sector hospital, a full-scale mock fire-fighting exercise has been conducted at Pakistan Institute of...

PIMS pathology lab developing faulty test reports 

ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a worrisome situation both for doctors and patients, the pathology department of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS)...

PIMS mortuary in shambles

Chillers installed in Islamabad's largest public hospital have been out of order for over nine months ISLAMABAD: The mortuary of the federal capital's largest...

90 blood donors tested positive for syphilis at PIMS, confirms health...

-- Government indifferent to rise in the disease  ISLAMABAD: Over 90 cases of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), were reported during the last one-and-half-month...

Patients Will Soon Be Able to Get Free Medicine from PIMS

In a recent meeting in Islamabad, Federal Ombudsman M Salman Faruqi has ordered the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to supply medicines free...

Health experts advise mothers to avoid formula milk

ISLAMABAD: The health experts on Monday advised the mothers to avoid the use of formula milk to protect their infants from medical complications. According to...

Bodies of PK-661 crew likely to be exhumed

The Capital Development and Administration Division (CAAD) has directed Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to exhume bodies of crew members of ill-fated PK-661...

PK-661 crash: PIMS receives DNA reports, 34 victims identified

The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has started receiving DNA reports of the victims who lost their lives in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...

PIMS, Polyclinic to be upgraded with latest facilities

The government has planned to upgrade Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital with the addition of more state-of-the-art facilities for patients. According to an...

Maryam Nawaz’s lethargy hindering PIMS’ new block inauguration

Sources say block’s inauguration is being delayed to gain political mileage close to general elections   Inauguration of the newly-built emergency block at the Pakistan Institute...