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Senate committee for preventive campaign on hepatitis
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Health has directed Heath Ministry to focus on mass awareness programmes about Hepatitis, Gastro and Polio. The committee met at the Parliament House on Wednesday under the Chairmanship of Senator Abdul Razak A. Thahim, has directed the Ministry of Health that instead of holding elitist seminars and symposia in [...]
Continue reading...Ore Bangali………tui Khabar er Sera
4. June 2008
The meaning of the above phrase: Oh! Bengali……you are best in Food culture…you are best in Football…you lost your everything……..in spending on foods and parties….. It was a very old saying about a Bengali babu. Food has always been a weakness for Bengalis. In those days Bengalis used to spend a large amount of money just [...]
Continue reading...Australia provides $ 8.5m for WFP Programme in FATA, Balochistan
28. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Australian Government will provide US$ 8.5 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in support of its programme in FATA and Balochistan. The agreement was signed by Australian High Commissioner Ms. Zorica McCarthy and WFP Representative Wolfgang Herbinger at a ceremony held in Peshawar. Honourable governor of NWFP Mr. Owais Ahmed [...]
Continue reading...UNDP to launch health programme in Sindh
28. May 2008
KARACHI: The United Nations Development Programme would provide fifty million dollars to launch Mother Child Health Programme in ten districts of Sindh from next financial year. The offer was made by a nine-member delegation of doctors from Norway, representing UNDP, during meeting with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah in Karachi. Popularity: 20% [?]
Continue reading...US Army surgeon general says mental health services ‘not adequate’
28. May 2008
WASHINGTON: The number of Army troops suffering from severe combat stress is skyrocketing, rising from just over 1,000 new cases in 2003 to more than 28,000 soldiers today diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the Army surgeon general said today. Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, the Army’s top medical officer, said that he does not know [...]
Continue reading...PIMS holds workshop for hemophilia patients
24. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has held workshop on dental problems in hemophiliacs organized by the Hemophilia Centre. The aim of the Dental Workshop was to provide guidance not only to the hemophilic patients but also to their parents and guardians. According to a rough estimate about 45 % of hemophilia patients have [...]
Continue reading...Punjab govt doubles food budget for prisoners
24. May 2008
LAHORE: Punjab government has doubled the food budget for 60,000 jail inmates of 32 prisons in the province. Talking to private TV channel on Saturday, Punjab Home Secretary Nadeem Ahsan Asif said all prisoners would be provided Sharbat (cold drink) once in a summer day and daily two-time tea in winter. He said the government [...]
Continue reading...Infectious diseases spread in Badakhshan
22. May 2008
FAIZABAD: The number of people infected with measles reached over 90, while over 1000 people were infected with lieshmania. Dr. Abdul Momin Jalali, public health department head of Badakshan told Pajhwok Afghan News the public health ministry in Kabul examined the sample and concluded that the disease was measles. He said 94 people mostly students [...]
Continue reading...UK, Australia to provide assistance to improve mother, child health
19. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The UK and Australia join forces to improve mother and child health in Pakistan. The UK and Australia on signed up to a new agreement on maternal and child health that will save the lives of at least 30,000 women and 350,000 children across Pakistan. This Government of Pakistan led health plan could improve [...]
Continue reading...Need for collective efforts, awareness against HIV/AIDS
19. May 2008
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information Shazia Marri has urged upon the society for collective & concerted efforts to create greater awareness and take preventive measures to save people from deadly HIV/Aids disease. Speaking as chief guest at Dialogue for Development Forum (DDF), held in connection to international Candle light movement on late Sunday evening at [...]
Continue reading...Sherry Rehman takes strict notice of rise in polio cases
17. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister of Health Ms Sherry Rehman has taken a strong note of the rise in polio cases in the province of Sindh, as one more case was reported this week bringing the total number of affected children to eight. Expressing her concern at the reports, the Federal Minister of Health has directed [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan calls for action plan to make food affordable
16. May 2008
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for a concerted plan of action that must include emergency actions, including humanitarian aid, to enable severely stressed developing countries to provide affordable food to their peoples. “It (the action plan) must also provide inputs to ensure larger food production in the near term, inter alia, to ensure supplies and [...]
Continue reading...PM for better health facilities to rural areas
15. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the government attaches high priority to the provision of quality health facilities across the country particularly in the rural areas. The Prime Minister said this while talking to a delegation of Depilex Smile Again Foundation comprising three Italian doctors who called on him at the [...]
Continue reading...Health Secretary for strict action spurious drugs traders
14. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Secretary Health Mr. Khushnood Akhtar Lashari reiterated the commitment that strict action will be taken against those involved in the spurious drugs trade. He stated this while presiding over high level on Wednesday. The meeting was convened on the directives of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior to eliminate trade of spurious drugs in [...]
Continue reading...PM orders to import additional 2.5 million tons wheat
13. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to import additional 2.5 million tons of wheat, including the 1.5 million tons already approved by the ECC, in addition to procurements from the local market in order to build strategic reserves for meeting country’s future requirements. The Prime Minister [...]
Continue reading...PM orders import of 2.5 million tons wheat
12. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday directed Ministry of Food and Agriculture to import additional 2.5 million tons of wheat, including the 1.5 million tons already approved by the Economic Coordination Committee. Chairing a meeting to review food situation in the country, the Prime Minister said the imported wheat would be in addition [...]
Continue reading...Khidmat Foundation provides free mobile health facilities
11. May 2008
ISLAMABAD:The free mobile clinic was started three days earlier under the auspices of Al-Khidmat Foundation Islamabad. Personnel of the free clinic visited the outskirt areas of Islamabad like Sangjani, Shaheenabad, Jhangi Syedan and Maira Ja’afar where they examined patients without any fee and distributed medicine free of cost among the needy. Popularity: 6% [?]
Continue reading...Sherry Rehman orders to revisit NP for PCH
9. May 2008
ISLAMABAD Federal Minister for Health, Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman has directed the ministry of Health to revisit the National Program for Prevention And Control Of Hepatitis In Pakistan by shifting the paradigm and focusing more on the expansion of treatment facilities to the deserving patients. She said this while addressing the follow up briefing [...]
Continue reading...USAID Awards Top Midwifery Students of NWFP
6. May 2008
PESHAWAR: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presented awards to three outstanding students of its community midwifery training program at the Post Graduate College of Nursing here Tuesday. More than 100 student midwives from Upper Dir and Buner and their parents participated in the ceremony. “Women and newborns are the most vulnerable part [...]
Continue reading...Polio Immunization campaign starts Tuesday
5. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: A three-day national polio immunization campaign begins across the country Tuesday. Over 33.6 million children under the age of five years will be administered polio drops as well as Vitamin A drops through eighty six thousand teams. Addressing the launching ceremony of the campaign in Islamabad Monday, Minister for Information and Health Sherry Rehman [...]
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Dawn has an extremely neat and easily navigating website including the left sidebar. All important links show different pages of hard version of Newspaper that makes easy for the readers and visitors to pick the link they are interested in; including Front Page, National, International, Local, Business, Editorial and Opinion.. Website has segregated its columnists in the same side bar and links to their Mags. Website gives link to the Online Dawn News. The news in Pics is very praiseworthy feature of the site.
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