Saturday, June 15, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi Voluntary unpaid blood donations have registered 10% decrease in 23 low and middle-income countries, including Pakistan, as compared to the figures from previous years. If 1% of a country’s population donate blood, ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
ISLAMABAD: Health and education got allocations of Rs25.739 billion and Rs5.237 billion (Rs5237.108 million) respectively in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2013-14. The federal government announced ...

Monday, June 10, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi The heat spell in the country has been posing serious health threat to the public. The allied hospitals in town — Benazir Bhutto Hospital, District Headquarters Hospital and Holy Family Hospital — along with Pakistan ...

Saturday, June 08, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi Measles and gastro are spreading fast in the Punjab province particularly in major cities including Lahore and Rawalpindi where death toll due to the infections has already crossed the figure of 200. Before this, ...

Thursday, June 06, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi Gastroenteritis has hit population in scattered areas of the country and health experts fear that the situation may get worse in the coming weeks. Data collected by ‘The News’ revealed that during last 35 days over ...

Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi A meeting of the District Polio Eradication Committee (DPEC), held in the office of district coordination officer (DCO) on Tuesday, discussed issues pertaining to the upcoming three-day anti-polio campaign being ...

Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi Measles has continued to hit population in the district as two of the three teaching hospitals in town have received eight new patients with the infection within last 48 hours taking the total number of patients ...

Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi: Measles has continued to hit population in the district as two of the three teaching hospitals in town have received eight new patients with the infection in the last 48 hours taking the total number of patients ...

Monday, June 03, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi Emergency medicine, an emerging new discipline of medicine, is now very well established in the developed world, though in Pakistan this important specialty has not been given due attention and it has not been ...

Friday, May 31, 2013
Muhammad Qasim
Rawalpindi Pakistan needs to reduce tobacco use to control non-communicable diseases and achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which can only be done by removing lacunas in the current Anti-Smoking Ordinance because ...