ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan government has enhanced the production of doctors in the province, with 470 MBBS-qualified doctors are expected to be graduated from the public sector medical colleges of the province by 2026. According to official source, Balochistan made this possible by increasing the MBBS seats of Bolan Medical College from 192 to 320 with […]
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ATH doctors removes 15 KG uterine tumor from a female patient
ABBOTTABAD: Doctors of Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) Abbottabad Friday removed a 15-kilogram heavy tumor from the abdomen of a 52-year-old woman after a complicated operation that lasted for 3 hours. According to the ATH spokesperson, removing a tumor weighing 15 kg was a very difficult task. the doctors have informed the media that the woman […]
Pakistan needs large number of doctors in future: Health Minister
LAHORE: Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid on Thursday said that Pakistan needed a large number of doctors in wake of increasing population. Speaking at the 54th Convocation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan as guest of honour at a local hotel, the minister said that Pakistani doctors were serving humanity world […]
GB govt to recruit teachers, doctors, nurses and technical staff
Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid while addressing a function on distribution of trophy hunting checks among conservation committees said that the trophy hunting program in Gilgit-Baltistan has been very successful in which the role of local conservation committees and the institution is commendable. He added, “The local community demonstrated its responsibility to protect wildlife by […]
Hungarian doctors separate Bangladeshi twins joined at head
Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering Friday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour operation to separate their skulls and brains. The three-year-old twins, named Rabeya and Rukaya, suffered from a rare embryological disorder affecting an estimated one in every five to six million births. They were “stable after the final […]
Two doctors accused in Nashwa’s case escaped the court after their interim bail was cancelled
Two doctors accused of Nashwa’s death escaped from the court in Karachi on Friday. The police filed a temporary charge sheet and incorporated the offence of murder in the report on Thursday. The nine-month-old infant was brought to Darul Sehat Hospital for the treatment of diarrhea but she was allegedly given a wrong injection which […]
Doctors or dacoits
Sir: For how long women are kept falling prey to barbarism in our society and we keep coming to know about such bad news. A bright young women, an emerging community leader in Ibrahim Hydri visited Sindh Government hospital Korangi No 5 with a complain of toothache where she was drugged and afterwards raped heinously, […]
Gross misconduct of doctors
“With an MBBS degree of five years, one year course on medical ethics for doctors to be taught a sense of humanity, social norms and moral ethics must be scheduled.” An ordinary man with tens of hundreds of people supporting him by raising the same concern on social media, in the wake of a recent […]
Doctors on strike
Sir: Doctors in Balochistan are on strike and they are away from the OPDs in government hospitals as well as they denied performing duty in private hospitals and clinic in order to fulfil their demands. The patients are suffering a lot as they faced many problems in the absence of doctors in OPDs. To end […]
Doctors need to learn empathy
One day during my medical school days while I entered a public transport vehicle, I heard a person sitting next to me narrating his conversation with a doctor to his friend, “When I finally managed to get the tests done and showed the results to my doctor, he said ‘I don’t trust these results! Get […]