Health

ISLAMABAD, May 27 : Capital Development Authority (CDA) in collaboration with Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad and District Health Officer has evolved an effective strategy to prevent growth of dengue virus in the federal capital. The authority had allocated Rs17 million to procure modern equipment, including fumigation machines, mosquito repellents and other …

The World Health Organization (@WHO) says it expects to discover more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease has yet to be identified.⁠ .⁠ Between May 13 and May 21, at least 92 laboratory-confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox were reported to the …

The World Health Organization chief on Monday said it is clear that the world was — and remains — unprepared for a pandemic, calling for support for universal health care and other reform measures. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, the sole candidate for reelection to the post, delivered his vision for …

ISLAMABAD, May 23 :National Institute of Health (NIH) on Monday said that all the national and provincial health authorities have been advised to remain on high alert for any suspected case of Monkeypox. According to NIH’s alert issued on multi-country Monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries to concerned health authorities and …

Rome’s Spallanzani hospital on Sunday 22 may said it had confirmed a single case of monkeypox in a young man who had recently returned from the Canary Islands. The patient, who presented himself to the Umberto I hospital in the capital, is being kept in isolation and is described as …

Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta of the Aga Khan University (AKU) has been named among the top 100 medicine scientists in the first edition of Research.com’s top scientists ranking for medicine. According to a statement, the rating is based on criteria that include the h-index, which indicates how productive and influential a …

  ISLAMABAD, May 23 :The National Command and Operational Center (NCOC) has been reconstituted at National Institute of Health (NIH) on the directions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. According to the spokesperson of NIH, the step was taken in the wake of emergence of new variant of Covid-19. As per …

ISLAMABAD – The National Institute of Health (NIH) has issued an advisory for the prevention and control of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). According to HIN, vigilant surveillance is imperative to pick the suspected cases for early disease confirmation and to ensure aggressive measures to interrupt further transmission. It added the …

On the 20th of March, a tragic incident occurred in Karachi’s private shopping mall – a three-year-old boy lost his foot after it got stuck in an elevator. The parents appeared on the media after the incident and raised their voices against the authorities. They have now received a notice …

ISLAMABAD, May 21 : Country Representative, World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Palitha Mahipala has visited the affected areas in Sindh and Balochistan and assured full support to beef up response to the present epidemic of acute watery diarrhea (AWD) or suspected Cholera cases. In order to mitigate factors that may …