Zulfiqar Kunbhar

KARACHI: An upgraded 50-bed under-construction public healthcare facility building, worth Rs 57 million, in a Karachi’s slum settlement Azam Basti is in deteriorating condition. Due to lack of interest on parts of Sindh Health Department and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) the under construction building has been left unattended even after a passage of 09 years. […]

KARACHI: Pharmaceutical companies and all the medicine markets in Karachi and other parts of Sindh showing solidarity with the Punjab sector have observed a shutter-down strike on Monday. The wholesalers, retailers and distributors, on the call of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) and Wholesale Chemist Council of Pakistan (WCCP), suspended their economic activities against what […]

KARACHI: Police on Saturday arrested five suspects in the minor girl’s abuse case on the identification of the victim family, police sources said. The suspects were taken into custody from Ibrahim Hyderi area. Police will show their faces to the victim girl for identification. A six-year-old girl was found in critically injured condition in a […]

KARACHI: Muhammad Ishaq, resident of Karachi’s Rehri Goth, is facing miserable time due to elephantiasis disease for last nine years. In 2007, Ishaq, 39 years old, was asleep when some insect bit his left leg. “When he got up, he felt severe pain in his leg.” When I showed it up to a healthcare facility, […]

KARACHI: 39,000 deaths were due to Diarrhoeal diseases among children aged under 5 years in 2015 In Pakistan, Out of which 22,900 deaths were caused by poor washing among children, a fresh report said. These figures have been released in a fresh report “WASHwatch” by WHO and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and […]

KARACHI: Mukhtiyar Ahmad Mangrio, a 13-year-old boy from Sindh’s remote district Umerkot has been diagnosed with blood cancer at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) Karachi last week. Delayed treatment has brought him among the high risk cases, doctors say. Hailing from Faqeer Muhammad Ameen Mangrio village of Umerkot, Mukhtiyar has been ill for […]

KARACHI: An exhibition of wooden sculptures, unique of its kind, aimed to catch Chief Minister Sindh’s attention is sitting outside KarachiPress Club. Fine pieces of artist Khushal Maharaj, who belongs to Umerkot’s Pithoro town, are installed for the last one week for outdoor display. The artist has transformed Diyar Wood in to master sculptures melding […]

KARACHI: The government-run health units in Sindh are unable to provide relief to a common man, and the outdated service structure of the medical staff is one of the major hurdles in resolving the crisis, experts told Daily Times. Sindh Health Department who is already struggling hard to provide improved health conditions in the province […]

  KARACHI: Test cricketers Mohammad Irfan and Junaid Khan have appealed the youth to go through blood screening and thalassaemia tests before marriage. Star cricketers expressed their views during a visit to Omair Sana Thalassaemia Center Karachi where they met with Thalassaemia children and their parents. During the visit of day care unit, national heroes […]

KARACHI: The emergence of high-fever and severe joint pain cases in abundance in Malir its and surrounding suburbs during last week, which authorities fear of a possible outbreak of Chikungunya virus, exposed the weaknesses of Sindh’s Health Department and its poor management to tackle the outbreaks, health experts warned Monday. The response time, lack of […]