Breast cancer: awareness is the key
It is very unfortunate that despite repeated pleas by the medical experts, our society sill stigmatizes some fatal health issues pertaining to reproductive health like the uterine cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and also the mental diseases....
GSK continues to supply Panadol products: Patel
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel said that pharmaceutical company GSK has continued its manufacturing and supplying of Panadol products in Pakistan. Talking to media, he denied media rep...
Seminar on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of breast cancer held at IU
Karachi: Breast cancer develops in women when abnormal changes appear that regulate growth of cells that develop in breast. Dr. Zubaida Qazi Founder and President of PINK Pakistan Trust at Iqra University (IU) North Campus said. In session, sh...
Every institute must record maternal deaths, perform autopsy: Sindh Minister
Karachi: Sindh Minister for Health and Population Welfare Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho in a meeting on Implementation of Qadam ba Qadam Project funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that maternal deaths must be recorded and autopsy performed in...
Hamdard, Systems Ltd ink e-commerce platform accord
KARACHI: Hamdard Pakistan and Systems Limited signed contract to develop state-of-the-art e-commerce platform for Hamdard’s products. Fatema Munir Ahmed, MD and CEO HP and Asif Peer CEO - Systems Limited signed agreement. Sadia Rashid President...
FUUAST holds awareness campaign on ‘osteoporosis’
KARACHI: Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) Department of Microbiology, Medical Microbiology Association of Pakistan and Dr. Farah Essa Academy jointly launched major awareness campaign regarding osteoporosis. Acti...
‘KMC launches Karachi’s first digital hospital’
KARACHI: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation launched Karachi's first digital hospital in collaboration with private sector, which will provide citizens with 24 hours free online OPD and consultancy at home. "A data centre in Sarfaraz Rafiqi Shaheed Hos...
Tessori displeases over poor health, sanitation in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital
Karachi: Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori expressed displeasure at overall health and sanitation situation on visiting Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and directed to improve it. He said that in third largest Hospital of city, patients come not only from centra...
Sindh doctors, paramedics boycott OPDs, demand health risk allowance
KARACHI: Sindh doctors and paramedical staff boycotted OPDs against non-provision of health risk allowance to them. Sindh government’s decision to end health risk allowance in wake of Covid endemic sparked protests at government hospitals in pr...
Pakistan needs preventive healthcare system for a healthy society: President
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi said that Pakistan needed comprehensive disease prevention and early detection disease health eco-system to counter communicable and non-communicable diseases which would provide better healthcare to people and help...
