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