On the occasion of World Pneumonia Day, Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases (OICD), Dow University of Health Sciences organized a Seminar at Ojha Campus Karachi. Prof. Dr. Nisar Rao, Director (OICD), Dr. Nadeem Ahmed, Dr. Aisha Wajeeh, Dr. Faheem, Dr. Raheela Kashif, Dr. Farzana Mumtaz and Dr. Mirza Saifullah Baig besides seminar faculty members of [...]
Chest Health and Education Society in collaboration with Department of Chest Medicine, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), organized a Seminar in eve of World Asthma Day recently at JPMC, Karachi. Dr. Javed A. Khan, Chairman of National Alliance for Tobacco Control and Consultant Chest Physician at Aga Khan University urged the government to enforce anti-smoking [...]
Tobacco use is one of the world’s most leading preventable causes of death – yet every year nearly six million people die of tobacco-induced diseases. Alarmingly over 600,000 of these individuals are victims of passive smoking, inhaling the smoke exhaled by a smoker. “All tobacco users, including cigarette and shisha smokers, are far more likely to suffer [...]
Tuberculosis (TB) often goes undiagnosed in children from birth to 15 years old because they lack access to health services - or because the health workers who care for them are unprepared to recognize the signs and symptoms of TB in this age group. With better training and harmonization of the different programmes that provide [...]
Widespread tobacco smoking and the use of fuels such as wood and coal are a major cause of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The disease poses a major health hazard and unfortunately remains largely under-diagnosed and under-treated in Pakistan. This was the consensus opinion of experts gathered at a collaborative seminar organised by Aga Khan [...]
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 [...]
More 'climate-friendly' investments in transport, energy and housing could help prevent significant noncommunicable disease, WHO review finds Greener investments in transport, housing and household energy policies can help prevent significant cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disease, obesity-related conditions and cancers. These are among the findings of a new global World Health Organization series that looks systematically, [...]
