Fazeel Zahid 
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Acting on public complaints about government hospitals, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Friday made it mandatory for hospital staff to wear body cameras to ensure transparency and accountability. Presiding over a meeting on provincial health projects, the chief minister said that nurses, ward boys, security guards, and pharmacy staff would … Read more
LAHORE (APP) – Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to ensure the early completion of the District Cardiac Cath Lab Project, aimed at providing modern, life-saving cardiac care facilities at the district level across Punjab. Under the chief minister’s vision to strengthen grassroots healthcare and ease pressure on tertiary hospitals, … Read more
KARACHI (APP) – Pakistan’s doctors are emerging as some of the country’s most neglected patients, with alarming data revealing widespread burnout, physical exhaustion and rising suicide rates within the medical community. Figures presented at a national academic forum showed that nearly 60 percent of doctors suffer from burnout, about 80 percent report chronic physical exhaustion, … Read more
(APP) – Beverages like sugary drinks and alcohol are too accessible and cost too little in most of the world – helping fuel obesity, diabetes, cancer and injury, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday. As such, WHO, a Geneva-based UN agency, is calling on governments to significantly increase taxes on sugary drinks and alcohol, … Read more
PESHAWAR (APP) – The Provincial Minister for Health, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khaliq ur Rehman has ordered strict legal action against all unlicensed medical stores and directed to launch a province-wide enforcement campaign against substandard and falsified medicines, with immediate effect. These decisions were taken at a meeting held in the Committee Room of the … Read more
RIYADH: A delegation of Yemeni separatists allegedly held in Riyadh said on Friday they had to dissolve their movement after a failed land grab that infuriated Saudi Arabia, but the announcement was dismissed as made under duress by their colleagues based in the UAE. Southern Transitional Council secretary general Abdulrahman al Subaihi, part of a … Read more
The visa sections of three Bangladesh missions in India have been closed temporarily on security grounds, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said on Friday. “What I have done is that I have asked our three missions to keep their visa sections closed for the time being. It’s a security issue,” he told reporters at the … Read more
ALEPPO: Syria’s government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city’s Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes. Residents of the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, the first of two areas to fall to the Syrian army, began returning to their homes to inspect the damage, finding … Read more
