Pakistan Nutrition & Dietetic Society (PNDS) organized its 5th Annual General Body meeting RECBETKY at a local hotel in Karachi. This event was sponsored by Unilever Pakistan (Flora). The meeting was chaired by Ms Saima Rasheed, General Scretary, PNDS. She presented an annual report of PNDS activities, starting from June 2007 Till June 2008. Sana [...]
A 2-day workshop on ‘Infection Control Practices in HIV/AIDS Program’ organized by Family Health International (FHI) in collaboration with Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP) was held recently in Karachi. The purpose of the workshop was to train medical assistants / lab technicians involved in safe practices in infection control and waste management; to provide technical [...]
Vaccines are one of the public healths greatest successes and immunization is one of the most cost effective health interventions in existence, said Prof. Ghaffar Billo, Head of Pediatrics Department, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi while addressing the 9th session of the National CME Series at Liquat National Hospital (LNH) Auditorium. The series is being [...]
By Yusra Qadir The most heated discussions on sexual and reproductive health revolve around abortion. A few participate in the debate, but many read the messages and follow the passionate arguments put forth by the pro-choice and pro-life forum members. Interestingly, there's a female/male split in the debate, with women consistently representing one view and [...]
A 'Centre of Nursing Excellence' set up by the Pakistan National Forum on Women's Health (PNF) through a special grant by GlaxoSmithKline was inaugurated by Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Chief Minister, Sindh here on Tuesday. The chief minister announced complete support for the project and appreciated the services of PNF for maternal health in Pakistan. [...]
“Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer at an early stage have an 84 per cent chance of survival, while these chances are much reduced, to 18 per cent, for women diagnosed at a later stage,” said Dr Nazia Riaz, Consultant General Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University (AKU) at a public awareness programme [...]
Rehmatullah Khan has recently joined Mission Pharmaceuticals as Head of Speciality Division Mission Pharma is known for services to the transplant community, patients with mission to explore and market nnovative specialities to break monopoly of Giant MNCs. They have already fast growing products with market leader BIORAL a leading cyclosprine microemulsion, as primary immunosuppression Suprimun (mycophenolate [...]
“As you contemplate the world you are entering, in what can be described as a challenging period in world history, please think about what this country expects of its leaders at a time of intense change,” said Ambassador Saidullah Khan Dehlavi, Chairman, Board of Trustees of Aga Khan University, addressing the audience at the 14 [...]
Food supplemented at home with powders containing vitamins and minerals for even short periods of time can reduce anaemia in young children suffering from undernutrition in Pakistan. This was the result of a study conducted in Naushero Feroze District, Sindh by Dr Zulfiqar A Bhutta and his team of researchers at Aga Khan University, in [...]
Prof. Mehmet Haberal, President, Middle Eastern Society of Transplantation addressing the 6th International Symposium of Urology, Nephrology and Transplantation of SIUT recently in Karachi said that Baskent University has performed 233 liver transplants till date and 48 percent of them were performed on children. The first of which was performed in 1990 on a 10-month-old [...]
By Shabana Lalji & Khairunnissa Hooda Sepsis is a complex syndrome that occurs as a result of the systemic manifestation of infection. Severe sepsis is common; an estimated 750,000 cases occur annually in the United States. The mortality rate for severe sepsis is 30 to 50% and septic shock with multiple organ dysfunctions is as [...]
A three member delegation from Pakistan attended a Regional Seminar on “Reducing Harms of Drug Use in Middle East & Central Asia” from October 27 – 29, in Tehran, Iran. The delegation was led by Mr. Iftikhar Ahmed, Deputy Director General, Anti-Narcotics Force, and included Mr. Yamin Khan, Inspector General Prisons, Sindh and Dr. Hasan [...]
By Jawaid Ali Technical Assistance for Capacity Building in Midwifery, Information and Logistics (TACMIL Health Project) organized a dissemination event of “Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07 Provincial Dissemination – Karachi Sindh” recently in Karachi. Ms. Kay Anske, Consul General of the United States consulate, Karachi and Ms. Humaira Alwani, MPA co-chaired the event Syed [...]
