KARACHI: An employee of the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) accidentally fell from the second floor of the hospital and later died due to multiple head injuries on May 18th, 2019. 55-year old Muhammad Qasim accidentally fell from the second floor the hospital where he was busy with some plumbing work. The rescue officials…
KARACHI: As many as 14,000 dog bite cases have been reported in Karachi’s hospitals since the start of the year. Out of these cases, five people have died so far due to the non-availability of the rabies vaccine in health facilities. An official at the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) told that around 5,300…
Karachi: The Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Sindh chapter’s acting President, Haleem Adil Shaikh, has requested the government of Sindh to declare an AIDS emergency in the whole Sindh province. According to details, Haleem Adil, who is also a parliamentary party leader of the PTI in the Sindh assembly, deposited a resolution in the Sindh…
KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) expressed its concern about the unfortunate incident took place at the Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, where the provincial health minister and his guards thrashed Assistant Professor, Dr Ziauddin Afridi. Secretary-General, Pakistan Medical Association (Centre), Dr S M Qaisar Sajjad in his statement stated that the health minister visited…
KARACHI: Another poliovirus case recently surfaced from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi, bringing the total number of children affected by the crippling disease to three in the Sindh province in 2019. The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for Polio in Sindh confirmed that the third polio case reported from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town of Karachi. So far,…
KARACHI: Another eight-year-old boy, Rizwan, son of Ramzan, from Shikarpur succumbed to rabies at the Indus Hospital, Karachi. He died due to the non-availability of anti-rabies vaccines in interior Sindh hospitals. Team Lead, Rabies Control Program, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Muhammad Aftab Gohar, informed that this was the fourth rabies patient that was brought to Indus…
KARACHI: The Sindh Minister for Labour and Human Resources, Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, recently stated that he would not tolerate any lethargic attitude towards the treatment of the workers. He informed that the Sindh Labour Department had taken many initiatives to provide better health care and education facilities to them. He said this during a recent…
LARKANA: The Provincial Health Minister, Dr Azra Pechuho, warned the press to not disclose the identities of any of the affected HIV positive cases or else notices will be issued against them. This she said while addressing a press conference at Commissioner’s office recently after presiding over a high-level meeting in connection with the outbreak…
Larakana- The Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP) has started the treatment of 40 HIV infected patients in Larkana and Ratodero after confirmation. Provincial Director, Sindh AIDS Control Program, Dr Sikander Memon, informed that the screening process of people was underway in Larkana, Ratodero, and its slum areas. He reported that the SACP had started the…
KARACHI: Recently, 53 more children were admitted to different government hospitals of the District Tharparkar with different ailments in addition to the 145 children previously admitted as old cases. All were provided state of the art healthcare free of cost. Two children succumbed to their ailments at the Civil Hospital Mithi despite all measures available…
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