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Balochistan To Digitise Birth And Death Registration

QUETTA: Balochistan government has decided to integrate Bolan Medical Complex and Sandeman Provincial Hospital with the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for registration of birth and death certificates, Local Government and Rural Development Secretary Abdul Rauf Baloch said on 13th May. Mr Baloch called the initiative a significant move towards digitisation. “The birth and death certificates have already been…

Over 650,000 Children Get Emergency Treatment

QUETTA: Over 650,000 children across Balochistan have received emergency treatment through ChildLife Foundation’s Children’s Emergency Rooms and Telemedicine Satellite Centres (TSCs). This achievement has been made possible through the partnership with the Balochistan government. The ChildLife Foundation operates a state-of-the-art Children’s Emergency Room at Sandeman Provincial Hospital, Quetta, along with…

PIC Saves Lives Of 14 Children Through Modern Heart Surgeries

PESHAWAR: Heart specialists at the public-sector Peshawar Institute of Cardiology have saved…

Punjab CM To Issue Free Bone Marrow Transplant Card Soon

LAHORE: As many as 150 children received free bone marrow transplants and…

Shocking Swap: Sick Baby Boy Replaced with Dead Girl

LAHORE: In what appeared to be a disturbing incident, the Children’s Hospital has reportedly exchanged a ‘male infant with a dead baby girl’ and handed over the body to the parents, making them move to the police for action against the medics for ‘committing a crime’. An official said that…

Children’s mortality rate in Sindh

ISLAMABAD: Mortality rates associated with critical illness in children at Sindh government hospitals stand at 1.2pc, compared to the average of 6.3pc across 46 sites in 19 low-income countries, the latest research conducted by a US-based global health network regarding quality of paediatric emergency rooms (ERs) reveals. The one-year point…

Sindh Government okays Rs520m for new children’s unit in NICVD

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah approved on 5 June 2024 an additional amount of Rs520 million for the new under construction paediatric unit at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD). He was presiding over the 82nd governing body meeting of the institute at the CM House.…

Children’s Hospital in the throes of mismanagement

LAHORE: The Punjab’s major health facility Children’s Hospital Lahore is in the throes of alleged negligence of the institute’s management, exposing the `tall claims` of government making it `the state-of-the-art public sector hospital of the country. Much was claimed by them during the recent surprise visit to the hospital when…

Policymakers urged to integrate mental health services into primary care settings

PESHAWAR: Experts have called upon policymakers to integrate mental health services into primary care settings to scale up awareness and reduce stigma associated with mental health illnesses among people. At the concluding session of fourth International Public Health Conference at Khyber Medical University (KMU) on 20 April 2024, they termed…

Better-funded emergency rooms to reduce children’s deaths by 50pc

ISLAMABAD: While every year 600,000 children die in the emergency room (ER) across the country, the number can be reduced by 50 per cent by pumping just a nominal amount of money (Rs2,000 per child) to improve the emergency response. Child Life Foundation Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Ahsan Rabbani…

Sehat Sahulat vs. Universal Health Coverage

SEHAT Sahulat is a great programme but universal health coverage has a much larger vision. Sehat Sahulat is a state-financed health insurance system for the curative care of hospitalised patients, whereas UHC means healthcare for all. After the universalisation of the Sehat Sahulat programme in the federal areas, KP and…

An initiative to check child mortality in hospitals

LAHORE: In response to the pressing need for accessible and high-quality emergency healthcare for children in Pakistan, an organisation has introduced an innovative telemedicine network in district and tehsil hospitals of Punjab, providing critical consultations to children in remote areas. The initiative aims to address the alarming child mortality rates…

Mentally-challenged ‘molested’ at hospital

LAYYAH: A 9-year-old mentally challenged was sexually assaulted in the district headquarters hospital within the limits of City Police Station. A police spokesperson said 15-year-old Abrar raped the minor girl who came to visit her grandmother in the surgical ward. The accused, who worked at a nearby General Bus Station…