KARACHI: The Sindh government has inducted 22 medico-legal officers (MLOs), including 13 women, to overcome the shortage of doctors at the medico-legal sections of the city’s three major government hospitals, a senior official said on 14th September 2024. Police Surgeon Dr. Summaiya
KARACHI: Highlighting the stark challenges Pakistan face in the education sector, speakers at a book launch said teachers had a central role in the quality of learning outcomes and their participation in decision-making was crucial to elevate the status of the teaching
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on 13th September 2024 informed that the Sindh Child Protection Authority was working in close coordination with the provincial police to conduct anti-child beggary drive for rescuing children who were forced to be involved in this worst
KARACHI: The National Assembly on 13th September 2024 passed a bill to regulate the cultivation of cannabis, and the sale of derivatives of the plant for medicinal and industrial use. On Monday, the Senate Standing Committee on Science and Technology approved the country’s first-ever
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a seminar called for urgent steps to unify efforts of the government, NGOs, and private sector to improve literacy as the literacy rate in Sindh particularly among rural women, trailed at just 51pc behind the overall national rate of
The Sindh Human Rights Commission has taken cognisance against the alarming surge in child marriages in District Dadu Sindh Province.SHRC issued letters to ascertain the factors in the surge of child marriages to the Director General of the Sindh Child Protection Authority
KARACHI: A project of senior doctors and medical science experts to reach out to and guide people living with diabetes but unaware of it has successfully prevented complications in 452,170 individuals, a recently compiled report said on 31st August 2024. The programme,
KARACHI: The Department of community health sciences at Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) conducted a project under which health experts collected and analysed injury and disease-related data of 2,000 patients who worked in
KARACHI: Amid the detection of a confirmed monkeypox (mpox) case in the country, the Sindh health department on 16 August initiated the screening of passengers at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, and released an advisory for healthcare institutions in the province. Officials
KARACHI: Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Memon said on Monday that the provincial government was increasing the number of rehabilitation centres for drug addicts in Sindh. At a press conference, he said that currently, there was a capacity to accommodate 400 people in