Pakistan has launched its final nationwide polio vaccination campaign for 2025, aiming to vaccinate over 45 million children under five. The seven-day drive, running from December 15 to 21, will see more than 400,000 polio workers administering oral vaccine drops across the country. This effort is critical to controlling polio transmission. Health Minister Syed Mustafa […]
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Health minister orders strict crackdown on quacks
A high-level meeting on the alarming rise of HIV cases across Sindh was chaired by Provincial Minister for Health and Population Welfare, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, in which all Deputy Commissioners and SSPs from across the province attended virtually, while CEO Sindh Healthcare Commission Dr Ahsan Qavi, Secretary Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority Dr Dur-e-Naz, and […]
German woman arrested in foiled plot to kidnap health minister
German woman arrested in foiled plot to kidnap health minister. German police on Thursday arrested a woman accused of being the ringleader of a far-right anti-lockdown group that planned to kidnap the health minister. The plot was uncovered earlier this year, when police arrested four men accused of “preparing explosive attacks and other acts of […]
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 […]
KP wounded surgeon: Doctors boycott OPDs, demand action against health minister
To protest against the alleged torture of Associate Professor Dr Ziauddin at the hands of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Minister Hisham Inamullah Khan, doctors across the province, on Wednesday, announced a boycott of the outpatient departments (OPD) at all government hospitals. KP Doctors Council claimed that their primary demand was to register a first information […]
Drug price hike: DRAP seizes stocks of 226 ‘overpriced’ medicines
As a part of its countrywide crackdown against the unauthorised and illegal increases in prices of medicine, Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP), on Sunday, claimed to have taken stocks of 83 medicines in its custody. According to information available to media sources, the authority also registered cases against 28 pharmaceutical companies. DRAP’s spokesperson asserted […]