LARKANA: The Sindh Government and it’s initiative, the Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP) have been charged with mishandling the HIV outbreak in Ratodero. Since the beginning, till even now, the SACP is not taking a keen interest in resolving the issue permanently, said Dr Aziz Soomro, a paediatrician from Larkana, who is settled in New…
KARACHI: The Sindh Health Care Commission is organizing a consultative meeting of regulatory authorities on June 18th, 2019, in Karachi to devise a comprehensive strategy to improve health services delivery standards and eliminate quackery from Pakistan. The representatives of the Punjab Health Care Commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Care Commission, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan, Pakistan…
KARACHI: The Sindh Health Department has been unable to devise a comprehensive strategy to control the incidence of typhoid in the province of Sindh as the number of typhoid cases continue to rise in Karachi and other cities of the province. The Provincial Disease Surveillance and Response Unit (PDSRU) report states that as many as…
The HIV outbreak in Ratodero has not only shaken the country but the entire world. Over 700 individuals have tested positive for the disease, out of which around 600 are children! WHO experts have called this event the first of its kind, and have deemed it “strange and new.” There has been no other known…
KARACHI- Sindh Healthcare Commission has established regional offices in Larkana while another regional office is being setup in Sukkur to improve health delivery standards and eradicate quackery in these two regions. The Chief Executive Officer SHCC in compliance of Sindh High Court Sukkur Bench, visited Sukkur to identify the office and also met with Commissioner…
ISLAMABAD: The prime minister has given the go-ahead for imposing health tax of Rs10 per pack of cigarette, earnings from which would be used by the health ministry on welfare projects. PM Khan approved a plan to increase taxes on the cigarette manufacturing industry in the upcoming budget for 2019-20 in a bid to enhance revenue…
About 800 posts are lying vacant at Sindh’s largest teaching institution, Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), which has badly affected the smooth functioning of this major provincial government-run healthcare facility. There are 3,000 sanctioned posts in 1900 bedded CHK out of which 800 are lying vacant. These posts include that of doctors, nurses,…
KARACHI- Civil society, human rights and medical and legal profession activists have urged the federal government to construct new hospitals in Karachi city instead taking administrative control of Sindh government hospitals. They expressed their serious concern over the federal government’s action to take over the control of three major medical facilities of Sindh, including Jinnah…
Karachi: Top international health experts from all over the world have resolved to find answers regarding the HIV outbreak in Ratodero, which has largely affected children of Larkana. The outbreak has been deemed ‘something new and strange’ and the first of its kind. “So far investigation by the local health authorities are only based on…
Karachi: The Sindh government has decided to arrest the transfer of three key Karachi hospitals including the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) and the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) to the federal government until the Supreme Court of Pakistan decides on a review petition filed by the…
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