Health

A delegation of lady health workers (LHWs) and supervisors from different districts of the province called on Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid at Primary and Secondary Healthcare office, here on Thursday LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – APP – ) :A delegation of lady health workers (LHWs) and supervisors from different districts of the province called on Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin …

Additional Commissioner-I Akhtar Hussain Qureshi has said a polio immunisation campaign will be conducted from June 17 to 20 in all the union councils of Sukkur division SUKKUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News –  ) :Additional Commissioner-I Akhtar Hussain Qureshi has said a polio immunisation campaign will be conducted from June 17 to 20 in all the union councils of Sukkur division.Presiding over a meeting here on Thursday …

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Dr Zafar Mirza Tuesday said that the government had initiated health insurance in 66 districts and the program was fast evolving to cover all the districts in the country by 2020. Addressing the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, the minister said that the government was paying and would …

Fast paced work on health projects worth Rs 370m under the Prime Minister’s Health Program is continue in Jhang JHANG, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – APP –  ) :Fast paced work on health projects worth Rs 370m under the Prime Minister‘s Health Program is continue in Jhang. Under the project, work on establishing five trauma centers and nurseries in 24 …

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dera, Muhammad Umair Wednesday visited Basic Health Unit (BHU) Shorkot and district patwar Khana and evaluated their performance DI KHAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – APP –  ) :Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dera, Muhammad Umair Wednesday visited Basic Health Unit (BHU) Shorkot and district patwar Khana and evaluated their performance.During his visit, he also checked the availability of …

Gastro wards are being established in major hospitals to deal with any emergent situation especially during monsoon and rainy season FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – APP –  ) :Gastro wards are being established in major hospitals to deal with any emergent situation especially during monsoon and rainy season.A spokesman for the health department Wednesday said the government had planned to …

Excessive use of smartphone is horrible for children’s health and may cause cancer, tumours such as glioma and acoustic neuroma as brain tissue of children absorbed about two times more microwave radiations than that of adults and the bone marrow of children soak up 10 times more radiation ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – APP –  ) :Excessive use …

A dental practice near London, Dentality@Hoddesdon, said on Monday that it had sent letters to patients who had received ultrasound scaling treatment, asking them to check for blood-borne viruses MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – ) A dental practice near London, Dentality@Hoddesdon, said on Monday that it had sent letters to patients who had received ultrasound scaling treatment, asking them …

The number of confirmed measles cases in the United States has climbed to 880 since the start of 2019, including 41 new infections during the previous week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report on Monday WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik -) The number of confirmed measles cases in the United States has climbed to 880 …

Tankred Stoebe, a medical emergency coordinator at the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Berlin and former president of MSF Germany, told Sputnik that the international community should join forces to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to resolve the ongoing conflict to prevent the Ebola outbreak from spinning out of control MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik …