PESHAWAR: Concerns have emerged within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department over junior doctors occupying senior management positions despite the availability of more experienced medics. Officials say several posts meant for BPS-20 officers are currently being handled by doctors from lower grades. Read More: UK doctors‘ strike sparks historic NHS crisis According to sources, the most recent […]
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EPI receives 23 vaccination vans from UNICEF
ISLAMABAD: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday handed over 23 vans to the Federal Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) to be used for expanding essential immunization coverage in high-risk five megacities and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services, Dr. Faisal Sultan received the vans from UNICEF […]
Head of Expanded Programme on Immunisation dismissed
ISLAMABAD:The Ministry of National Health Service (NHS) has announced that it has dismissed the head of Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Dr Saqlain Gilani. His removal came on the heels of a successful recovery mission by NAB, after a team of National Accountability Bureau recovered Rs 18 million during a raid on his house in […]
Anti-polio vaccines were ‘okay’: Parents bluff in Peshawar exposed
PESHAWAR: An attempt to sabotage the countrywide anti-polio vaccination drive was exposed when it was revealed that a group of conspirators forged the illness and hospitalization of children in Mashokhel village to spread panic and misinformation about the polio campaign. On Monday, residents staged a demonstration outside the hospital and damaged the property. The protesters […]