The National Blood Transfusion Programme (NBTP), Ministry of Health, with technical support from GIZ, recently organized a 3-day Training Workshop on ‘Clinical Use of Blood’ recently at a local hotel in Islamabad. The workshop was attended by clinicians and hematologists from six teaching hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi including PIMS, F.G. Polyclinic Hospital, [...]
World Malaria Day is observed every year on April 25th to venerate the efforts of different parts of the World to control Malaria prevalence. Novartis Pharma Pakistan, a Multinational Research based Pharmaceutical Company organized an Awareness Session recently in a local hotel in Karachi. The event comprised of interaction between the medical community [...]
By Ahmed Waqas, Hafsah Muhammad Chishti, Usman Waheed, Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Blood is a specialized tissue divisible into a cellular part (RBCs, WBCs, Platelets) and a liquid part, Plasma which is a transporting medium for cells and a variety of substances vital to the human body. It is 91% water and contains [...]
Dr. Saeed Ahmed, Husaini Blood Bank Thalassaemia is an inherited genetic blood disorder in which patient’s hemoglobin is abnormally formed. Normally the baby inherits one alpha & one beta gene from the mother and one alpha & beta gene from the father. These two alpha and two beta genes produce two alpha and two beta [...]
National Testing Services (NTS) Pakistan has singed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) to train and certify their medical representatives. Director NTS Dr Haroon Rashid and PPMA chairman Haroon Qasim signed the MoU at a local hotel here Monday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr, Rashid said that NTS has so [...]
The Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority has decided to make arrangements for the availability of a laboratory test to help diagnose thalassaemia minor patients in all district and taluka hospitals in the province. Seven thalassaemia centres will be set up in the province — two centres in Karachi and one each in Hyderabad, Larkana, Nawabshah, Sukkur [...]
Five per cent of adults and double that number of children suffer from asthma in Pakistan and the last few decades have seen a growing increase in numbers said Dr Nawal Salahuddin, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, AKU on World Asthma Day. The Day is a reminder that this chronic disease is on its way [...]
By Tara Patricia (Author of The Road You Were Meant to Travel) The cheer of the crowd falls silent to his ears. The young brown-eyed man digs deep into every once of his being. This is it… all his years of training, all his sacrifice comes down to this very moment. As the crowds jump [...]
Principals and sporting ambassadors from each of Grenada’s 22 secondary schools attended the launch of the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation’s (WINDREF) Sport for Health Program. A collaborative program between WINDREF, St. George’s University, the Ministries of Sport and Health, and the Grenada National Olympic Committee, the goal is to help reduce the public [...]
Health accountability report presented at world health assembly The United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health presented their report, Keeping Promises, Measuring Results, and recommendations to increase the likelihood that pledges for women's and children's health are honoured and that resources are spent in the most effective way to save [...]
After a week of negotiations continued through Friday night and into Saturday morning, an open-ended working-group meeting of Member States successfully agreed upon a Framework that ensures that in a pandemic, influenza virus samples will be shared with partners who need the information to take steps to protect public health. The working-group meeting was convened [...]
New data site makes WHO data and analyses widely available An increasing number of countries are facing a double burden of disease as the prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases and cancers increase and many countries still struggle to reduce maternal and child deaths caused by infectious diseases, for [...]
Noncommunicable diseases are the leading killer today and are on the increase, the first World Health Organization (WHO) Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) launched today confirms . In 2008[1], 36.1 million people died from conditions such as heart disease, strokes, chronic lung diseases, cancers and diabetes. Nearly 80% of these deaths occurred in [...]
WHO releases list of drugs that need to be available everywhere The World Health Organization's (WHO) first ever list of priority medicines for maternal and child health recommends to countries which medicines are most important for saving lives. Access to appropriate medicines is vital to achieving global health goals[i]. More than eight million children under [...]
On World TB Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Stop TB Partnership are calling on world leaders to step up their commitment and contributions to meet the goal of diagnosing and treating one million people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) between 2011 and 2015. Today [...]
