By Suleman Chaudhry

LAHORE: The administration of teaching hospitals and medical colleges has failed to ensure foolproof security arrangements for providing a safe environment to patients and employees in teaching hospitals across Punjab. In order to identify the shortcomings, the Punjab government has decided to conduct third party evaluation of security measures in teaching hospitals and medical colleges. […]

  LAHORE: In order to maintain the standard of cleanliness and to strengthen the security of state-run district headquarter hospital (DHQs) and tehsil headquarter hospital (THQs), the Primary and Secondary Healthcare (P&SHC) Department has decided to outsource janitorial and security services to private contractors, putting the future of hundreds of employees at stake, as they […]

  LAHORE: After failing to achieve millennium development goals (MDGs) regarding reduction of maternal mortality rate and child mortality up to five years, the Punjab government has introduced Mother Neonatal Child Health (MNCH), a referral system for better management of obstetric complications from primary healthcare to tertiary care hospitals across the province. According to Pakistan […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has failed to search and appoint competent health managers for its districts level administrative posts, created with an aim to rectify loopholes in primary and secondary healthcare system across the province. After failing in first attempt, Primary and Secondary Healthcare (P&SHC) Department has again made competition exams compulsory for the appointment […]

  LAHORE: Pharmaceutical companies are again all set to increase the prices of hundreds of medicines as drug pricing committee (DPC) of Drug Regulatory Authority (DRAP) has a meeting scheduled on August 30th for considering cases and fixing new prices of medicines, putting an additional burden on those who may require the. Official documents available […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to amend the Drugs Act, 1976, enhancing fines for producers or sellers of substandard drugs with an aim to eradicate the menace of fake drugs through effective enforcement of law. The Primary and Secondary Healthcare (P&SHC) Department would send a summary in this regard to the Punjab chief minister […]

LAHORE: Poor patients of cardiovascular diseases coming to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) from all over the province are facing difficulties to get timely treatment and free medicines as numbers of purchased drugs are not being provided to them. Due to delay in drug analysis report to be issued by the Lahore Drug Testing […]

LAHORE: Believe it or not, illegal organ transplantation has resurfaced in Punjab, as patients from certain developed countries visit Pakistan allegedly to buy organs for transplantation from local hospitals, revealed a letter written by Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Director Prof Adbul Hasan Rizvi to Punjab Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera. […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to outsource laundry facilities of all tehsil headquarter hospitals (THQs) and district headquarter hospitals (DHQs) across the province to private firms with a view to provide efficient washing and cleaning services to patients. The government has taken an initiative to handover laundry facilities of 25 DHQs and all THQs […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to conduct a detail inspection of all pharmaceutical manufacturing firms located across the province to check good manufacturing practice (GMP) to ensure quality of medicines In this connection, four special inspection teams have been constituted to take action against those firms working in violation of the Drugs Act. It […]