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,
Lack of safety measures, trained firemen jeopardize the lives of patients under treatment KARACHI: Patients undergoing treatment at a hospital hope for a speedy recovery and a safe return home. Yet while the former can be probable in the presence of qualified
KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) has expressed deep concerns over the rising number of viral and epidemic diseases in the metropolis and other cities of the province and asked Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to take steps
500 to 750 patients of chikungunya are being reported daily across major government hospitals in the city. KARACHI. As a province with an ailing public healthcare system, the number of seasonal epidemics hitting Sindh on a regular basis is alarming, to say
Dozens of children have died this year in Karachi, and rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan due to diphtheria, a vaccine-preventable bacterial disease, as routine immunisation continues to decline in the region, health experts and officials reported on 12-October-2024. In Karachi alone,
KARACHI: Police have arrested one nominated accused over charges of a sexual assault on a woman inside a government hospital in Orangi Town, said a senior police officer on Thursday. SSP-West Tariq Illahi Mastoi told Dawn that the police had arrested the man for
KARACHI: Health experts have expressed concern over the rapid increase in cases of iatrogenic genital tract fistula — an abnormal connection between the urinary bladder or ureter and the vagina, created accidentally by a surgeon during an operation — in the country