Tag: Pims

Project for poor patients to become operational after Eid: Firdous Awan

The government has planned to establish the Patient Welfare Organisation in order to provide medicines to the poor patients being treated at public hospitals....

Service structure divides PIMS staff

All the files related to development work and inquiries, including the new service structure of doctors, are pending for any action owing to the...

Supply of substandard medicine on the rise

Taking notice of substandard medicine being sold at the federal capital’s drug stores, the chief commissioner Islamabad on Thursday directed concerned drug inspectors to...

PIMS staff divided over doctors’ new service structure

A majority of the medical and paramedical staff of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Institute (PIMS) has rejected the new service structure for doctors,...

PIMS not ready to tackle dengue challenge

While the deadly dengue fever have gripped the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the blood cell separator, incubator and refrigerator used to separate...

PIMS X-ray machine gives faulty result to PM

An out of order X-ray machine of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) produced a faulty X-ray of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani...

Who will attend to the attendants at PIMS?

“We have been forced to take shelter here as we do not have any other place to stay,” said Farzana Jabeen, a 38-year-old woman...

Doctors at PIMS discharge dengue suspect

In a clear show of apathy towards the plight of patients, the doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) discharged a suspected...

YDA forces PIMS admin out of office

The Young Doctor’s Association (YDA) at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Tuesday locked down the administration offices and forced the executive...

Doctors lock down PIMS

Hundreds of patients were left in the lurch on Wednesday at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) when doctors locked down almost the entire...

YDA PIMS strikes, Poly Clinic chapter seeks peaceful solution

Without having the support of Young Doctors Association (YDA) Poly Clinic Hospital chapter, YDA members at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) held a...

50 to one – patient to nurse ratio at PIMS

The Health Department’s negligence has made Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the capital city major hospital, fall prey to a serious shortage of...

PIMS leaves chemo patients in the lurch

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

Not enough beds at PIMS Burn Care Centre

THE Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Burn Care Centre (BCC) has only 20-bed capacity whereas 20 to 30 patients visit the centre daily....

PIMS gets bomb scare

The administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Sunday received a bomb hoax call warning that the hospital would be attacked with...

Out-of-order CT scanners at PIMS make patients suffer

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

Top PIMS docs ‘enjoy’ French leave often

ISLAMABAD - Several senior doctors of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), a major hospital of the capital city, have visited foreign countries without taking ex-Pakistan leave or the letter containing 'no objection certificate' (NOC) from the hospital's Executive Director Mehmood Jamal.
These doctors have gone an extra mile by showing their absence from their offices on medical grounds, and in some cases, there are fake attendances as well. The doctors who have gone to