Around 1,200 children start smoking daily in Pakistan due availability of cheap cigarettes
Tobacco responsible for 166,000 deaths in the Country annually
By Hamid...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: A five-day nationwide Polio Immunization Drive to vaccinate over 40 million children under the age of five kicked off across Pakistan on...
Suggests building trust between health-care workers and public, dispelling myths and misinformation
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: In what appears to be worrisome statistics,...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has established 155 District Disease Surveillance and Response Units (DDSRUs) all across Pakistan.
In an Auspicious...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday inaugurated the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology, a 260-bed state-of-the-art cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgery and treatment facility.
The...
Nowadays, the communication gap between the patients and doctors has been reduced, thanks to the advancements in technology. Specially in the times of COVID19...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Ministry of Narcotics Control has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sehat Kahani (E-Health Clinic Network).
A Helpline will be...
The American Business Forum together with Ferozsons Laboratories Limited and PEL donated 17 portable ventilators to Rescue 1122.
These ventilators, known as Umbulizers, have been...
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Society for Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC) has reminded the incumbent government the ‘Health Levy bill’, which...
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The government has recently launched another landmark initiative, the Essential Package of Health Services—its national version of universal health...
