KARACHI: While nurses have a critical role in improving healthcare access and quality, their workforce in Pakistan is highly underpaid and overworked — two key barriers impeding their performance and growth, shared speakers at a seminar held on 4th February at Hamdard
As the Karachi police have failed to control firing during wedding celebrations, there seems to be no stop to the killings of people due to celebratory gunfire. The latest incident occurred on 26-January-2025 afternoon within the limits of the Sacchal police station
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has restrained the Sindh Health Department, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) administrations; and the Sindh Human Rights Commission from making a final decision in inquiries initiated against the accused, Dr. Shehzad,
Despite being a low transmission season, around 10 children are currently admitted at the Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital (SIDH) at NIPA in Karachi with measles, while four children are undergoing treatment for diphtheria. Similar cases are being reported at other health facilities
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has lauded the Sindh government for its remarkable achievement of reducing infant mortality in the province to 2.9 percent, compared to the national average of 5.4 percent. Bilawal expressed pride in the accomplishments
KARACHI: Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho has said that the Sindh government plans to extend paediatric and neonatal intensive care services as part of its efforts to tackle the high infant mortality rate in the province. Speaking at a media briefing
HYDERABAD: Sindh Higher Education Commission’s chairman, Prof Dr S.M. Tariq Rafi, has lamented that the government spends huge amounts of public money to prepare doctors, who can serve the community but if female students, who dominate medical institutions, do not join the
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first genetic molecular laboratory has been inaugurated with the cooperation of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA), an organisation of Pakistani-origin doctors based in the United States. The newly established lab, located on the campus of Jinnah
LARKANA: The Larkana police have caught a suspect in Karachi and recovered from his possession a newborn girl allegedly taken away from Shaikh Zayed Hospital for Women more than a week ago, SSP Dr Mir Rohal Khan Khoso said in a late
HYDERABAD: A case has been registered at the Baldia police station against two doctors and other staffers of a private hospital for negligently declaring a healthy newborn dead. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of the father, Muhammad Rafiq Bhayo,