KARACHI: The Vector-Borne Diseases Department of the Directorate General Health Services, Sindh, has registered 114,225 cases across the Sindh province in 2020, while no malaria-related death was reported in the province. According to the statistics shared by the Sindh Health Department, a total of 114,225 malaria cases recorded throughout the province last year. The most…
Islamabad: Over three million people have been screened for Covid-19 in Sindh since the first case of the infectious disease was reported in the province one year back on February 26, said provincial health minister Dr Azra Pechuho on Friday, adding that the disease claimed 13 more lives over the past 24 hours, bringing the…
KARACHI: The Sindh branch of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) recently organized a coordination meeting on urban resilience at the Emergency Operation Centre of PRCS-Sindh, Hilal-e-Ahmer House, Karachi. All the relevant stakeholders and humanitarian organizations participated in the meeting with the aim of building working relationships to enhance the capacities of the Emergency Response…
KARACHI: As many as 18,598 frontline healthcare professionals have been administered the COVID-19 vaccine in the Sindh province, noted an official at the Sindh Health Department. According to the data shared by the Sindh Health Department, a total of 18,598 healthcare professionals have been vaccinated in the Sindh province since 2nd February 2021 out of…
KARACHI: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Pakistan for the welfare of the people living below the poverty line have said that a variety of health issues such as malnutrition in children, iron deficiency in pregnant women, breast cancer, and children’s contagious diseases could easily be overcome through ‘Public-Private Partnerships – (PPP)’ in Pakistan. While on…
KARACHI: The Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine’s first consignment containing 83,000 doses arrived at the Karachi airport recently. The consignment was received by Sindh health secretary Kazim Jatoi, Project Director Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Dr Akram Sultan and other officials at the airport, from where it was shifted to the EPI storage centre in the city….
KARACHI: The Directorate of Anti-Quackery, Sindh Health Care Commission (SHCC), visited 156 clinics last week and sealed 45 more clinics run by quacks. The Anti-Quackery teams visited 156 clinics last week in the Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions, where the teams sealed 45 clinics this past week. A total of 4,256 Healthcare Establishments (HCEs) have been…
KARACHI: As many as 13 more patients of the coronavirus died overnight, lifting the death toll to 3,888. Moreover, 635 new cases emerged after 6,041 tests were conducted. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a recently issued statement. He added that 13 more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives,…
KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, recently urged the federal government to give Sindh the authority to procure the corona vaccine to control the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases and related deaths in the province. She expressed these views at a recent press conference held at the People’s Hall Sindh Secretariat Karachi. Information…
KARACHI: The major diagnostic machines of the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) have been lying out of order for the past two years, and the hospital’s administration has been unable to get them repaired, sources at the CHK noted recently. The important diagnostic machines of the Radiology Department, like the CT scan and…
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