KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho informed that the South African and Brazilian variants of the novel coronavirus disease had been found in samples taken by the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH). In her video message, the Provincial Health Minister disclosed that the AKUH collected 13 samples to perform a genomic study confirming the...

KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Sindh noted the alarming increase in cases of measles in the entire province of Sindh with great concern. Paediatricians and family physicians working in the suburbs of Karachi have confirmed this report. General Secretary, PMA Sindh, Dr Rafiq ul Hassan Khokhar, in his statement, said that according to the...

ISLAMABAD: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Pakistan and Facebook have recently launched a campaign to promote life-saving immunisation as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of routine immunisation, In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some...

Karachi: The Ziauddin University in Karachi has introduced Pakistan’s first 3D virtual dissection table called Anatomage, at its new digital anatomy lab in Clifton, which will be used as a learning tool for university students of all years. An inauguration ceremony was held in this regard in which the Chancellor Dr Asim Hussain said, “It’s...