Health

ISLAMABAD: The ad-hoc system at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has been blamed for the deaths of at least four patients that occurred in the emergency ward of the hospital over the past two days due to suffocating heat, said hospital doctors who also organised a protest on Saturday. These patients were brought to the emergency department for …

The head of US intelligence said on Friday that there was no evidence that the Covid-19 virus was created in the Chinese government’s Wuhan research lab. In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said that they had no information backing recent claims that three scientists at the lab were some of the very first …

ISLAMABAD: Following the Pakistan Meteorological Department’s warning of a heatwave, all hospitals in the federal capital have been put on high alert to deal with any o deal with any untoward situation. To ensure that the best possible medical care is available, the Islamabad admin has sent a letter to the PIMS and Polyclinics hospitals, requesting them to be prepared …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has laid the foundation stone of the National Police Hospital at Police Lines and vowed to utilise all resources to upgrade the capacity of Islamabad police. PM Shehbaz Sharif said the incumbent government would utilize all possible resources to upgrade the capacity and performance of the Islamabad Capital Territory Police by extending different facilities. Addressing …

ISLAMABAD: Provincial polio programmes have finalised the arrangements to hold vaccination campaigns in selected districts of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from today (Monday). Around four million children, up to five years of age, will be vaccinated during the campaign, Ministry of National Health Serv­ices (NHS) spokesperson Sajid Shah said while talking to Dawn. He added that all arrangements for the campaigns …

RAWALPINDI: Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday expressed his indignation over the closure of some departments at Murree’s Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and ordered authorities to open them immediately. He made these remarks during his visit to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and a control room established at Jinnah Hall in Murree. He reviewed treatment facilities being provided to the …

There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters, saying it was now working with six more countries than previously revealed to track the potentially deadly children’s medicines. The U.N. agency has already named nine countries where tainted syrups may have been on sale, after the deaths of more than 300 infants on three continents …

ISLAMABAD: The capital administration imposed a ban on the accumulation of fresh water in the shape of ponds without covers, and water fountains as a part of a series of measures for two months to stop the breeding of dengue mosquitoes ahead of the monsoon season. An order issued by the district magistrate stated that it was a “scientific fact …

Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has received Autism-Friendly Certificates (AFC) for the category of Cultural Facilities to acknowledge the Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children, Etihad Museum, and Al Shindagha Museum. The accreditation certificates were presented at Dubai Autism Center’s headquarters during an official visit by the Dubai Culture delegation, headed by Hala Badri, the Authority’s Director General, …

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) advised authorities in Sindh and Balochistan on Saturday to remain alert as a “very severe” cyclonic storm, Biparjoy, over the Arabian Sea was maintaining its intensity and lay 910 kilometres south of Karachi. The cyclone — initially reported to pose no danger to Pakistan’s coastal areas — a day earlier changed its course and began moving towards the coastal …