KARACHI: A state of the art specialized center “Dowites78 Foot & Wound Care Centre” was recently inaugurated by Dowites’ 78 Operation Theatre Welfare Society (DOTS). The Centre is located inside the premises of the Dr Ruth K M Pfau Civil Hospital (CHK), Karachi. This project is in collaboration with the CHK’s administration, a public-private partnership…
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench recently issued notifications to the ministries of national health services and law in regards to their response concerning a petition contradicting the dissolution of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and termination of its staff members through a presidential ordinance. An employee of the dissolved PMDC, Faridullah Khan, filed…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical Council has taken three former members of the PMDC at a time when the Islamabad High Court (IHC) is set to start the hearing on a petition challenging the dissolution of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). The formation of the PMC faced severe criticism by the Senate and the…
KARACHI: Female doctors who have been out of practice can now apply for the Dow University’s online re-certification courses starting from December. The university is accepting applications for its fifth batch of eDoctor, an online platform meant to bring female doctors back into the medical field. Classes are expected to start from December 25. Applications…
President CPSP Prof. Dr Zafarullah Chaudhry, a member of the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), which is one of the three arms of the new Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), raised a query regarding the current capacity of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to regulate medical education. It was explained that HEC will only be enforcing…
MN Report KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) organized a summit to discuss Pakistan Medical Commission 2019 Ordinance and Medical Tribunal Ordinance 2019 at the PMA house, Karachi. The stakeholders rejected government’s move of dissolving the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) as the “worst action”. They demanded immediate withdrawal of the “controversial Pakistan Medical…
Karachi- The Medical and Dental Council constituted under the new Pakistan Medical Commission Ordinance 2019 held its first meeting on October 28th at a hotel in Islamabad. The meeting was held is pursuant to section 4(2) of the PMC, wherein the Ordinance was formally presented followed by the election of Medical and Dental Council’s (MDC)…
DN Report KARACHI: A team of the Sindh Healthcare Commission (SHCC) and the Prevention and Control Program for Dengue (PCPD) in Sindh recently conducted a meeting to discuss the prevention and control measures for dengue The SHCC and PCPD Sindh conducted a meeting at the SHCC Head Office. CEO, SHCC, Dr Minhaj Qidwai, Program Manager,…
KARACHI: The Diabetic Association of Pakistan (DAP) and the World Health Collaborating Centre Karachi recently organized a scientific session for doctors at a local hotel in Karachi. The session began with a welcome address by Prof A Samad Shera, Secretary-General, Diabetic Association of Pakistan (DAP), Founding President, Diabetes in Asia Study Group (DASG), and Director,…
KARACHI: Ex-President, Pakistan Pediatric Association (PPA), Sindh, Prof Dr Jamal Raza, stated that the upcoming typhoid campaign is extremely important, and the PPA urges parents to get their children vaccinated against this drug-resistant form of typhoid. He said this during a recent health reporters’ orientation session on Polio and the upcoming Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV)…
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