The Sindh Healthcare Commission has expressed its grave concern on poor sanitation condition of Sindh Government Lyari General Hospital (LGH), Karachi, and unavailability of proper facilities to cater emergency patients at Emergency Department. A team of Sindh Healthcare Commission led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Minhaj A Qidwai, Director Clinical Governance, Dr. Raza [...]
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) congratulates the people and the Government of Srilanka for total eradication of malaria from the country, after a prolong struggle. World Health organization {WHO} has declared Srilanka as a Malaria free country. The Srilnakan Government having meager resources has shown that a country can achieve a goal with political will, planning [...]
Speakers at a press briefing informed that the exponential rise in the country’s population is not only the country’s biggest problem but also a biggest scandal. Millions of rupees have been devoured but it continues to rise exponentially like a nuclear bomb imploding within the country. Sindh fairly lagged behind the rest of the country [...]
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. [...]
College of Family Medicine Pakistan (CFMP) conducted a 2 day nutritional educational program for Family Physicians titled "Integrating Nutrition in Clinical practice" recently at PMA House Karachi. The program was attended by eminent GPs and Family Physicians from Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah and Larkana. The course faculty included: Prof. Iqbal A. Memon, Specialist Children's Diseases, gastroenterology [...]
Q1 - Tell us something about yourself. Ans - I wanted to be a doctor but most of my times during my childhood, I spent in sports and painting. Me and my friends at Habib Girls School would be in the playground playing basketball, throwball, baseball and table tennis. As I had a deep interest [...]
Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with Trust for Vaccines & Immunizations (TVI) organised the Two-day National Vaccination Seminar recently at AKU, Karachi. The two-day Seminar aimed to unite all health professionals and civil society representatives besides other stakeholders such as policy makers, international health organisations including, USAID, WHO, UNICEF, health officials at federal and [...]
