By Suleman Chaudhry

LAHORE: The Punjab government has prepared a special incentive package for specialist doctors with a mandatory condition of performing evening rounds in tehsil headquarter hospitals (THQs) and district headquarter hospitals (DHQs) across the province. This new decision trigged a debate among medics, leading to frustration and confusion. An official, on the condition of anonymity, told […]

LAHORE: After failure in the existing system, the Punjab government has again decided to outsource management of health facilities of five low performing districts to external parties under public-private partnership to improve health services delivery in the province. All healthcare facilities, including basic health units (BHUs), rural health centres (RHCs), tehsil headquarters (THQ) hospitals and […]

LAHORE: As many as 11 samples of medicines from 10 national and multinational pharmaceutical companies have been failed by the Drug Testing Laboratory, declaring them as substandard. The Primary and Secondary Healthcare (P&SHC) Department has directed all drug inspectors to take immediate action against these companies and seize their available stocks at health facilities/sale points […]

LAHORE: The Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department has made entry test compulsory for admission to nursing schools across the province. The test would be conducted through the National Testing Service (NTS). Upper age limit has also been enhanced from 20 to 25 years to induct more candidates to meet shortage of health support staff […]

LAHORE: Poliovirus has been detected in fresh samples retrieved from sewage in different parts of Faisalabad, traces of which closely resembled the virus found in Afghanistan. Faisalabad has been declared as a high-risk area for polio after virus was detected in environmental samples, putting a good number of children at risk of contracting the crippling […]

LAHORE: Even as Punjab, the hub of medical education, continues to produce an impressive number of medical practitioners every year, the government hospitals are facing severe shortage of specialist doctors, as about 40% of specialists’ posts are lying vacant at tehsil headquarter hospitals (THQs) and district headquarter hospitals (DHQs) across the province, Daily Times has […]

LAHORE: At a time when more than 31 percent people of Punjab were living under the poverty line, the provincial government has decided to purchase an expensive mid-size executive jet aircraft for VVIP movement only, raising a question mark on this ‘intellectual initiative’. A tender notice has been advertised by the Punjab additional secretary (welfare) […]

LAHORE: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has increased the price of 80,000 medicines by 2.86 percent across the country, adding to the problems of poor patients, who were already suffering in the wake of high cost of drugs. The government has increased the prices of medicines according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), […]

LAHORE: Fatima Jinnah Medical University (FJMU) has received a major blow to its status, as Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) categorically denied its registration, citing non-fulfillment of legal requirements. The decision has sent a shockwave among the medics community and put the future of university at stake. Despite the lapse of one year, the […]

LAHORE: The Sindh government has been planning to computerise its police department to facilitate the public and enhance departmental efficiency for the improvement of law and order situation in the province. Sindh government officially contacted the Punjab government, seeking assistance about IT reforms in its police department too. This initiative was taken to improve the […]