Treatment under the Sehat card programme will continue By: Web Desk on April 11, 2022ISLAMABAD: Amid all speculations about the fate of the health card scheme, the Ministry of National Health Services(NHS) on Sunday said that in the last couple of days around 17,000 patients were admitted to the hospitals across the country and are availing free of cost health treatment. However, the Ministry ensured that the proramme will […]
New candidate vaccines against COVID-19 variants designed: study By: APP on April 6, 2022BEIJING: Chinese scientists have described a new strategy for making vaccines against COVID-19 that could elicit effective neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron and Delta variants. Researchers led by Wei Wensheng from Peking University developed a platform to produce the next-generation vaccine design or circular RNA (circRNA) vaccines. The spike protein of the virus that causes […]
Health experts urge to use vegetables in Ramzan By: APP on April 4, 2022SUKKUR: Health experts have stressed upon using raw and steamed vegetables like tomatoes, cucumber and salad etc during Ramadan. People should avoid fried food, sugar and juices and limit sugar intake from items such as cookies and cakes, said a health expert Dr Iqbal Dawoodpota while talking to APP here Monday. He said fasters should […]
NCOC operation ends amid all time low COVID indicators: Asad Umar By: APP on March 31, 2022ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Thursday announced to close down of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) operations amid all-time low COVID-19 indicators and high level of vaccination. Addressing a press conference along with Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan, Asad Umar said that keeping […]
PM fulfils the promise of free healthcare facilities for the entire Punjab: Farrukh By: AAP on March 31, 2022ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said on Thursday that today was a great day for the Punjab province as Prime Minister Imran Khan fulfilled his promise regarding free healthcare facilities for the entire population. In a tweet he said, after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad, and Tharparkar, Punjab also […]
56,565 patients get treatment at OGDCL’s 19 free eye camps By: APP on March 30, 2022ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), in collaboration with Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, recently held 19 eye camps in all four provinces where around 56,565 underprivileged patients were extended free of cost treatment. At the camps arranged under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, as many as 3,168 cataract surgeries were performed, […]
COVID-19 cases simmer down across Aussie states By: APP on March 28, 2022SYDNEY: The daily cases of COVID-19 have begun to stabilise in Australia’s eastern most populous states, abating initial fears that the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant would trigger a new wave. The daily cases in New South Wales (NSW) fell to 16,199 on Monday, marking the fourth consecutive day in which cases dropped from a high of […]
New Zealand reports 12,882 new community cases of COVID-19 By: APP on March 28, 2022 WELLINGTON: New Zealand reported 12,882 new community cases of COVID-19 on Monday, said the Ministry of Health in a statement. Among the new community infections, 2,300 were recorded in the largest city, Auckland. The rest of the cases were identified across the nation, including 2,119 in Canterbury, according to the ministry. In addition, there […]
Half of Shanghai in lockdown to curb Covid-19 outbreak By: AFP on March 28, 2022Shanghai: Millions of people in China’s financial hub were confined to their homes on Monday as the eastern half of Shanghai went into lockdown to curb the country’s biggest ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. The move, announced late Sunday, caused a run on grocery stores by residents who have become exasperated with authorities’ inability to snuff out […]
COVID-19: Pakistan reports 189 new cases, 4 deaths in last 24 hours By: Web Desk on March 26, 2022On Saturday, according to the latest figures released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) the country has reported four COVID-19 deaths and 189 new cases in the last 24 hours (Friday). After the addition of 4 new deaths, the overall toll has now surged to 30,340 whereas the number of total infections now stood at […]