Business Recorder, December 30, 2007:
Absence of doctors and paramedics at many of the hospitals on Saturday caused severe difficulties to the patients. The out- patient departments of most of the hospitals, remained closed and a few of the patients arriving were attended at the emergency sections, where the staffers appeared to be exhausted after performing […]
Original post by MH
I came across this news item here. Sounds like a very encouraging plan, if the Government of Pakistan and its Ministry of Health actually do something to implement it. The new restrictions were announced on World No Tobacco Day this year and include the following
- no electronic media advertisements except between 3am and 4am
- no […]
Original post by Murtaza
In what looks more like a high level small talk, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz met his Health Minister to talk about increase in health spending, controlling malaria, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and improving MCH in the country. Pakistan Times reports:
By Sheeraz Aslam
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government is committed to achieve the millennium […]
Original post by Murtaza
Another one of DAWN’s daring reports on the state of the leprosy hospital run by the city government in Karachi.
By Meera Jamal
KARACHI: The agony of Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis of being rejected by his loved ones for no fault of his own, but due to a deformity that suddenly emerged out […]
Original post by Murtaza
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