KARACHI: Pakistan will allow the private sector to import vaccines for protection against the novel coronavirus, a senior health official confirmed recently. “In addition to procurement by the government, if private companies get approval, through the normal process, they will be allowed to do so,” Dr. Faisal Sultan, special assistant to the prime minister on…
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has urged the Ministry of Finance to lay Federal Health Levy Bill in parliament to impose a tax on tobacco and sugary drinks to boost revenues and prevent non-communicable diseases. In a letter to the Ministry of Finance, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Special Assistant on Health Dr…
FAISALABAD: Dr Ayesha Qaiser, after a period of eight months recently succeeded to establish that she had been roughed up by the medical superintendent of the hospital and now a lower court has summoned the suspect. Dr Asif Hameed Saleemi, now MS at DHQ Hospital, has been found guilty of roughing up Dr Ayesha Qaiser…
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Azra Fazl Pechuhu expressed her reservation over the recently conducted test by the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) and pointed out discrepancies during the procedure. Terming the questions in the PMC test as out of syllabus, she said that most of the MCQs were from the syllabus of the federal education…
ISLAMABAD-: As the Pakistan Medical Commission uploaded a revised version of the updated National Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) 2020 exam results and struggled to explain to applicants why the results had earlier been taken down, Ali Raza, the vice president PMC exercised damage control by holding press conference recently. While speaking to…
KARACHI: Students who appeared in the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) 2020 have recently filed a fresh petition in the Sindh High Court (SHC) over the problems they faced in the entry test. During today’s hearing, the lawyer representing the students told the court that the regulatory body Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) had…
KARACHI: The city administration has decided not to extend ‘mini smart lockdowns’ in any part of the metropolis once the notified period of 15 days is completed as results have showed a positive impact of the curbs in containing the spread of COVID-19 among residents of the neighbourhoods currently under lockdown, officials said recently. They…
Islamabad: A Pakistani doctor based in Toronto has introduced an instant COVID-19 diagnostic test using a smartphone. Pakistan High Commissioner to Canada Raza Bashir Tarar has congratulated Dr Naqeeb Khalid for his extraordinary achievement. In conversation with a local newspaper, Dr Naqeeb Khalid who led the development of a smartphone-based diagnostic test for COVID-19 as Director…
Geneva: Noncommunicable diseases now make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, according to WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates, published today. This is an increase from 4 of the 10 leading causes in 2000. The new data cover the period from 2000 to 2019 inclusive. The estimates reveal trends over the last…
London: UK regulator allays fears after 4 Bell’s palsy cases in US trials.In trials conducted in the US, four out of 21,720 participants who received the Pfizer vaccine suffered Bell’s palsy, but this is consistent with the trend in a random population UK drug regulator dismissed fears of Bell’s palsy being associated with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19…