Monthly Archives: May 2012

The World Health Organisation (WHO)is expected this week to declare polio a global health emergency asit battles complacency in an attempt to eradicate the deadly virus forever. This year has seen a decline in cases but health officials say they have only half the funding they need to wipe out the disease in its last [...]

The multinational pharmaceutical companies have proposed the government to rationalise taxes imposed on the sector in the upcoming budget, as the existing pricing mechanism in Pakistan is a major hurdle in the way of attracting foreign investment in the country and some multinational companies have even closed their operations in Pakistan during the past five [...]

The 49th Annual Symposium of  Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre,Karachiconcluded after five days of presentations, scientific sessions and workshops by medical and academic experts.   Various day sessions were held on gynecology and obstetrics, disaster management, general medicine, dental surgery and facio-maxillary sessions at JPMC and paeds medicine and surgery session at NICH. During 5 days [...]

The health experts have urged to create awareness among public on treatment and prevention of leprosy disease to alleviate the sufferings of patients. According to them, it is a high time to encourage the flow of funds, which are imperative to take the cause of leprosy eradication from the country. They said in Pakistanleprosy control [...]

Nurses and midwives should be provided training opportunities to ensure provision of quality healthcare, as they are the basis of a sound and viable healthcare system, said local and international experts while speaking at a seminar jointly organised by the Aga Khan University and School of Nursing and Midwifery and Nursing Services to mark the [...]

Health experts said that appropriate feeding during 6-23 months of age reduces under nutrition, childhood illnesses and mortality especially in resource poor settings. According to them, complementary feeding rates are undesirably low in Pakistan compared to other countries in the region and urged to improve timely complementary feeding. Talking to Media, they stressed the need [...]

A major reason of death in underdeveloped countries including Pakistanis mouth cancer which occurs as a result of genetic changes that take place due to the chewing habits of tobacco, paan, chhaliya, gutka, niswar and manpuri. These days gutka is considered to be the most hazardous and carcinogenic chewing agent in Pakistan. This was observed [...]

High blood pressure if left untreated can lead to chronic diseases, said Dr Muhammad Nawaz Lashari, Cardiologist at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS).He was speaking at a Health Awareness Programme organised by the DUHS at its Ojha Campus. Speakers at the conference pointed out that hypertension is often referred to as a `silent killer’ [...]

The Punjab Health Department has issued guidelines to principals of all autonomous medical institutions, medical superintendents of public sector hospitals and health EDOs in Punjab on prevention of food- and water-borne diseases especially gastroenteritis during summer/monsoon season. They have been asked to make special arrangements for prevention of the disease as well as treatment of [...]