KARACHI: The coronavirus case count is increasing at an alarming rate across the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global outbreak that has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the WHO and is considered the biggest public health challenge the world has faced in recent memory. The Pakistan Islamic…
KARACHI: The Medical & Health Services Department of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has declared a high alert in all hospitals/medical institutions run by the KMC due to heavy rains. All heads of institutions are directed to make the necessary arrangement, prepare duty rosters, and ensure the staff’s presence on duty as per their duty…
KARACHI: The Pakistan People’s Party Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said that the people of Pakistan could not pardon Imran Khan for negligence during a pandemic. Imran Khan should be ashamed that he did not hold a meeting with doctors and ask for their recommendations even once. Chairman PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, held a meeting with…
KARACHI: A new study by researchers at the Aga Khan University has highlighted the need to improve ways to diagnose and treat pneumonia, a leading cause of death in children under the age of five around the world. The Pakistan-based study, RETAPP, is the world’s largest community-based assessment of the use or withholding of antibiotics…
KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and representatives of the civil society recently expressed concern on the confused policies of the federal and provincial governments regarding the COVID-19 in Pakistan. These reservations were expressed by Dr S M Qaisar Sajjad, Secretary-General, PMA Centre, Faisal Edhi, Head of the Edhi Foundation, Dr Qazi M Wasiq, Treasurer,…
KARACHI: The Sindh Health Department has posted a specialized cadre, Dr Noor Muhammad Soomro, as the Medical Superintendent of the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi and transferred general cadre, Dr Khadim Hussain Qureshi, from his post. According to the notification, on the recommendation of the Sindh Health Department, Dr Khadim Hussain Qureshi, Senior Medical…
KARACHI: The Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) written test passed contract nurses recently staged a protest demonstration demanding job regularization and the payment of three months’ worth of stipend. The SPSC written test passed 2382 nurses, who were hired by the Sindh Health Department for a period of 89 days on a contractual basis as…
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s oldest maternity hospital, known as Sobhraj Maternity Hospital (SMH), has been facing an acute shortage of anesthesiologists since the past year and the hospital’s administration has been unable to run the Operation Theater (OT) round the clock, noted sources at the SMH. The KMC-run hospital situated in the Urdu Bazaar…
KARACHI: The public and private sector hospitals of Karachi have been facing an acute shortage of oxygen cylinders after a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and its related complications, sources at hospitals recently noted. Oxygen cylinders have disappeared from Karachi’s markets that have added to the miseries of patients suffering from COVID-19. Corona patients need…
KARACHI: The Grand Health Alliance (GHA) ended its two-week-long peaceful protest and boycott of OPDs after assurance from Sindh provincial ministers. A delegation of the GHA comprising of Dr Mehbob Noonari, Dr Waris Jakhrani, Akhlaq Ahmed Khan, Aijaz Kaleri, Atta Rajper, Asad Samtio, Heera Lal, and others met with Sindh Provincial Minister for Education and…
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