Global study finds 78% of people feel “stuck” professionally and personally (77%); 90% of people say their meaning of success has changed since the pandemic started People are turning to robots to support their career development after the COVID-19 pandemic left them feeling lonely and disconnected from their own lives, according to a new study [...]
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Afridi, President Pakistan Psychiatric Society (PPS) lauded the directives by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar of Sindh High Court (the petition filed by Ms. Erum Shaheen, submitted through her counsel, Mohammad Qadir Khan), to all the commissioners and the senior superintendents of police to constitute special committees to visit public places including shrines [...]
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Afridi is currently the Dean of JPMC (Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre), the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, JSMU (Jinnah Sindh Medical University), Chairman of Faculty of Psychiatry, JSMU, Head, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, JPMC, Member of Sindh Mental Health Authority as well as a Member of the Sindh Health [...]
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi organized an Awareness Seminar on ‘Sindh Mental Health Act & Authority’ recently at Najmuddin Auditorium, JPMC Karachi. Prof. Dr. Syed Haroon Ahmed speaking as the chief guest on the occasion emphasized the immediate constitution of ‘Board of Visitors’ in order to establish the [...]
To develop greater collaboration between healthcare experts and the media, The Agha Khan University Hospital organised Health Media Conference in Partnership with the Agha Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications in Kenya and the Centre for Innovation in Medical Education. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Asim Belgaumi spoke about the role of the institution in raising healthcare [...]
Experts at a Seminar has stressed Mental Health Act has been enforced in all the four provinces of Pakistan to protect basic human and civil rights of persons with mental illness and to improve the quality of care provided to them. There is need to create more awareness in order to sensitize masses regarding mental [...]
By Dr. Abdul Hameed Memon, Chief Psychiatrist (R), Govt of Sindh & Incharge Pre-Conference Workshop & Sessions, Quaid-e-Azam Medical Centre, Hyderabad Pakistan Psychiatric Society (PPS) hold its 22nd National Psychiatric Conference in the historical city of Hyderabad. The Conference was held under the supervision of renowned psychiatrists including Dr. Abdul Hameed Memon, Dr. Darya Khan [...]
Epilepsy is still considered a taboo and a supernatural phenomenon, while Parkinson’s disease is considered as a result of growing age. Similarly, there is a misconception of being addicted to the medication for the entire life if a treatment for depression is started, These view were expressed by experts at a Media Briefing held recently [...]
Only 400 trained psychiatrists for nearly 50 million people with common mental disorders in Pakistan There is a perception that people with mental illness are violent, look different from others, can never get better or cannot be productive members of society. These inaccurate and misleading stereotypes impact adversely on people's struggle to cope with their [...]
By Fauzia Saeed, Psychologist VCCTC, PRCS Punjab Branch.LHR In psychology and philosophy, emotion is a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psycho physiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation. The physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the [...]
Minister of State for Health, Mrs. Saira Afzal Tarar chaired the first meeting of the Task Force on mental health. The Minister on this occasion said that the issues of right discrimination and exploitation by non professionals of people with mental health and mental disorders need be addressed by better awareness and education of the [...]
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) is very much delighted over the Sindh Health Commission Bill ordinance, Thalesemia Prevention Bill ordinance, The Mental Health Bill ordinance being promulgated in the Province of Sindh by Honorable Governor Dr. Ishratul Ebad Khan. This Health Commission Bill was a dream of PMA which has finally come true as an ordinance. [...]
