Karachi: Dr Qazi Irshad Ahmad, Ex-Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Vice-Principal, Dow Medical College/ Dr Ruth K M Pfau, Civil Hospital Karachi, Dow University of Health Sciences recently lost life to COVID-19. The Publisher, Editor and the staff of Medical News Pakistan express their heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of Dr Qazi Irshad Ahmad, Ex-Associate…
Islamabad: A group of foreign medical graduates surrounded the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) building in Islamabad recently to protest its move to blacklist a number of foreign universities. “The future of foreign qualified medical students is at stake because of the decisions being made by the PMC,” said one protester at the venue. The protesters…
Islamabad: Foreign Medical Graduates recently held a protest outside Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) office in Islamabad. The students were raising voices against the announcement by PMC blacklisting 70% of Chinese universities. PMC previously blacklisted most of the universities in Kyrgyzstan. Students informed that PMC policy, the future of thousands of foreign medical graduates, who have…
KARACHI: The Sindh Government recently established a Provincial Vaccine Coordination Cell to make the coronavirus’s final arrangements (COIVD-19) vaccine. The Provincial Vaccine Coordination Cell has set up on the directives of the Minister for Health Sindh, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho. The Secretary Health Sindh, Kazim Jatoi, will lead the COVID-19 vaccination arrangements in Sindh. This…
KARACHI: The health department recently notified the Provincial Vaccine Administration Coordination Cell (PVACC) after getting a commitment from the National Vaccine Task Force and the National Command Operation Centre (NCOC) for supply of the Covid-19 vaccine by Jan 15. Chairing a meeting on the subject, Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho stated that the NCOC…
USA: During a Senate hearing recently, a group of doctors touted alternative COVID-19 treatments, including ivermectin and the anti-malaria medication hydroxychloroquine. Medical experts have cautioned against using either of those drugs to treat COVID-19. Studies have shown that hydroxychloroquine has no benefit against the coronavirus and can have serious side effects. There is no evidence…
KARACHI: Dr Zafar Mirza, former Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, has said that the COVID-19 vaccine may be administered to only 20 percent of Pakistan’s population when the country would start receiving its supply by the end of the first quarter of 2021; however, he emphasized the need to follow the…
KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) considers 2020 as an unfortunate year not only for Pakistan but for the whole world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pakistan went through so many political and economic problems along with an increasing number of health issues, which have raised the burden of diseases more. Although the PMA has…
ISLAMABAD: While the federal government recently decided to establish Covid-19 vaccine administration cells across the country, pharmaceutical companies suggested that licences should be issued for local manufacturing of the vaccine as it maytake years to import jabs for the entire population of Pakistan. Meanwhile, 2,475 new Covid-19 cases and eight deaths were reported in a…
KARACHI: It is neither terrorism nornaturaldisasters but the unavailability of safe drinking water which leads to the highest number of deaths in Pakistan. The discharge of untreated industrial waste, poor sew-erage system, agriculture run-off and unplanned urbanisation have downgraded water quality in Pakistan, depriving almost two-thirds of over 200 million Pakistanis of potable water, says…
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