Health

LAHORE: The State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) has suspended cataract surgeries under Sehat Sahulat Programme at all the empanelled private hospitals of the Punjab province. The step was taken following the serious complaints of implanting substandard/low quality lenses during cataract procedures which were not approved by the Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (Drap). There were also reports that the private hospitals …

There is hardly any doubt that sleep is lovely and necessary but plenty of hazards are associated if one oversleeps. While oversleeping, one might experience falling, talking, paralysis or exploding head. Wives or husbands also may have to put up with excessive snoring, grinding teeth and groaning. Sleepwalking is a behaviour disorder that happens during deep sleep. Its common triggers …

Pediatricians and parents are calling for the US to treat new high-caffeine energy drinks like alcohol and cigarettes and ban their sale to minors as a single serving can contain as much caffeine as six Coca-Colas. Prime Energy, which launched this year, has 200 mg of caffeine within its 350 ml can — exceeding permissible caffeine levels in Canada, Australia …

SYDNEY: A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes was pulled “alive and wriggling” from a woman’s brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said on Tuesday. Baffled doctors performed an MRI scan on the 64-year-old Australian woman after she began suffering memory lapses, noticing an “atypical lesion” at the front of her brain. It was an eight-centimetre (three-inch) roundworm, …

Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed on Tuesday. Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fraction of the amount earmarked for fighting infectious …

Caretaker Federal Health Minister Dr Nadeem Jan has taken notice of the regarding the appointment of junior doctors at the airports, ports and border crossing points. ARY News aired a report regarding the appointment of junior doctors at the airports, ports and bordering crossing points by the Border Health Services (BHS). The caretaker health minister ordered the concerned authorities to …

RAWALPINDI: The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Saturday reconfirmed a mpox case in the garrison city, however, doctors at the Holy Family Hospital said the patient was medically fit and would be discharged in a day or two. The 28-year-old male patient arrived from Gujar Khan on August 18 with skin rashes and other symptoms related to mpox. He …

KARACHI: Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori has signed the Sindh Immunization and Epidemics Control Bill 2023, promulgating the law for imposing fines and jail terms to parents refusing vaccinations to their children. The Sindh Immunization and Epidemics Control Bill 2023 promulgated the regulation for imposing fines and penalties on parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children. Under the law, the …

QUETTA: Another Congo virus patient has been admitted at Fatima Jinnah Hospital of Quetta, citing hospital administration. “Yaqoob Ali 60, was brought to the hospital and found positive in test for Congo virus,” hospital officials said. “Yaqoob Ali has been a resident of Quetta’s Hazara town.” “This year 30 Congo viral fever patients have been reported in Balochistan till now,” …

KARACHI: Caretaker Sindh Health Minister Dr Saad Khalid Niaz has banned use of gutka, mainpuri and cigarettes during duty hours in the province. The caretaker Sindh health minister showed his resentment over use of gutka, and cigarettes by the health staff in public sector offices and premises of hospitals. Employees of the health department are barred from consuming gutka, cigarettes …