Health spending less than one percent of GDP for decades
KARACHI: The spending on health has been less than one percent of GDP for decades. Improving the health and nutrition of the population is the priority agenda of the present government with…
Govt decides to take action against protesting doctors
LAHORE: The Punjab Health Department on Saturday decided to take stern action against the protesting doctors as the protest of Grand Medical Alliance entered the 10th day. According to sources, the provincial health…
No polio case reported in Punjab so far: Dr Munir
LAHORE: Health Services Director General Dr Munir Ahmed has claimed that not a single case of polio has been discovered in Punjab so far. In a statement on Sunday, he said the positive…
Anti-dengue campaign to start on Feb 15
RAWALPINDI: The Health Department has approved an anti-dengue plan for this year for Rawalpindi and the campaign will be commenced from February 15. According to media reports, the provincial food authority has also…
School sealed for refusing polio drops to kids without parents’ consent
–Education dept seals Kids Kampus Gulberg for not allowing health workers access to classrooms –Salamat Schools director says govt’s polio drive between child, parents and state; school can’t take responsibility LAHORE: Punjab Schools Education…
ICT admin seal nine pharmacies for selling expired, spurious drugs
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration has prepared a comprehensive plan for the first month of 2019 to get rid of a mafia indulge in selling spurious and substandard medicines across the…
Woman claims she was raped during operation in Lahore
LAHORE: A woman claimed that she was raped during her operation in Lahore’s Services Hospital after which the police sent her samples to a forensic lab to probe the case. The ‘victim’…
Special anti-polio drive in ‘highly-sensitive’ districts from Nov 12
LAHORE: A special anti-polio drive in 12 “highly sensitive” districts of Punjab will commence from November 12 (Monday), as part of which more than seven million children will be administrated polio vaccine. The…
KP health dept to set clusters for treatment of people in own areas: report
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department is in the process of developing clusters of health facilities across the province for the treatment of patients in own areas. According to a local media report,…
KP health dept starts posting doctors in tribal areas: report
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has started transferring doctors to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as part of the merger plan with KP. According to a local media report, the first…
As many as 7,376 absent doctors continue to receive salaries
KARACHI: As many as 7,376 doctors who are working in the Sindh government’s health facilities under the administrative control of health department have been ‘missing’ since past couple of years, while they…
Several LHWs faint as sit-in continues on second consecutive day
LAHORE: Over a dozen lady health workers (LHWs) fainted on Tuesday as the ongoing protest demonstration of hundreds of female employees of the health department outside the Punjab Assembly on entered the second day. As per…
Traffic gridlock as Mall Road remains clogged due to LHWs’ protest
–Protesters accuse health minister of making false promises LAHORE: Hundreds of female employees of the health department demanding service structure and up-gradation of their Basic Pay Scales (BPS) under the banner of National…
Interprovincial coordination essential to regulate drugs prices, quality: minister
Newly appointed DRAP chief calls on health minister LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare (P&SH) Khawaja Imran Nazir on Thursday said interprovincial coordination was essential to eradicate spurious and substandard medicines from…
Mobile Eye Hospital at Town Hall dysfunctional
Officials say hospital’s staff transferred to different departments LAHORE: The Health Department has made the state-of-the-art Mobile Eye Hospital dysfunctional which was established with a huge amount some eight years ago, Pakistan Today has…
Health insurance card scheme being extended to 13 more districts: health minister
LAHORE: Punjab minister for specialised healthcare and medical education, Khawaja Salman Rafiq has said that after the success of the health insurance card scheme in four districts of the province, the scheme is…
Experts recommend measures for protection against smog
LAHORE: The health and environmental experts on Sunday said that exposure to smog was contributing toward spreading various health issues, including eye infections, allergies, coughing and irritation in the throat. The experts suggested…
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