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BUMDC official rewarded

KARACHI – Bahria University Medical and Dental College (BUMDC) has rewarded its Dental Section’s Bio-Medical Engineer, Naseem Ahmed in the form ...

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World Hepatitis Day – 2m people contract hepatitis from unsafe injections: WHO

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO), an international organization that aims to fight and control disease, has alerted people to the risks of ...

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KMC’s morgue project in the doldrums

Karachi: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) could not make its Landhi Medical Complex’s cold storage (mortuary) facility functional despite a ...

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Naegleria Claims One More Life – Claims of supplying chlorinated water exposed

Karachi: With one more death caused by Naegleria fowleri, also known as `brain-eating amoeba’, the number of people who lost their lives in the ...

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Body formed to review KMDC’s affiliation with KU

KARACHI – Metropolitan Commissioner and Karachi Medical & Dental College (KMDC) governing body’s vice chairman Samiuddin Siddiqui has set up...

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Naegleria Claims One More Life – Claims of supplying chlorinated water exposed

Karachi: With one more death caused by Naegleria fowleri, also known as `brain-eating amoeba’, the number of people who lost their lives in the ...

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An SOS Message – Plea to include blood group’s column in CNIC

KARACHI – Voicing concern over shortage of a rare type of blood, known as `Bombay’ blood group, health experts urged the federal government to ...

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Chlorinated water being supplied to Karachi: KWSB

KARACHI – Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KWSB) has claimed that water being supplied to the city was being chlorinated as per international ...

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Naegleria fowleri claims 9 lives in 6 months

KARACHI – At least nine people – eight male and one female – have, so far, died from brain-eating Naegleria fowleri in Karachi in the ...

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PepsiCo’s heatwave relief programme

KARACHI- PepsiCo Pakistan has launched a heatwave and dehydration relief programme in Karachi to provide support against the heatwave that has claimed over ...

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CHK’s emergency dept’s 3 ACs develop fault

KARACHI – The newly-installed air-conditioners at Civil Hospital Karachi’s (CHK) emergency department have developed faults and hence not ...

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Frequent power outages add to patients’ woes

KARACHI – Frequent massive power breakdowns and unannounced loadshedding have made the life of patients, admitted in the public sector hospitals, ...

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Ziaudding group organizes hydrate drive

KARACHI: – Ziauddin Group (Dr Ziauddin Hospital, Ziauddin University and HTV) organized a successful hydrate campaign, called “Pyaas ...

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People urged to donate blood voluntarily

KARACHI – With the onset of summer season and holy month of Ramazan, the trend of voluntary blood donation has declined across Sindh, especially in ...

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KMC asked to start Fumigation Drive – All parts of city must get chlorinated water: CM

KARACHI – Taking strong notice of reports that various localities of the city were not being supplied chlorinated water, Sindh Chief Minister Syed ...

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PDC to participate in FDI World Dental Congress Bangkok 2015

KARACHI – The 103th FDI 2015 Annual World Dental Congress will be hosted by Dental Association of Thailand, this year in Bangkok,from 22-25th ...

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Dr Ayma Syed joins Community Dentistry at Sharif Medical & Dental College

KARACHI – Dr Ayma Syed, a renowned practitioner in Community Dentistry has joined Sharif Medical & Dental College (SMDC) in the capacity of ...

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BUMDC team visits UK’s varsities

KARACHI- A delegation comprising faculty members of Bahria University Medical & Dental College (BUMDC) visited the United Kingdom from May 31 to June 7....

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Task force set up to monitor HIV/AIDS cases

KARACHI- Sindh AIDS Control Programme (SACP) management has set up task force at divisional and district level to devise strategy to control the prevalence ...

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Public Sector Hospitals – Exercise to detect `ghost’ staff continuing

KARACHI- Director Health, Karachi, Dr Zafar Ejaz has said that physical verification of health department’s employees was continuing across the city ...

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Rainy season’s contingency plan devised

KARACHI – Sindh health department’s Karachi chapter has prepared a contingency plan for the ensuing monsoon rains.

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Dr Mumtaz Khan’s Mother passes away

KARACHI – Dr Mumtaz Khan’s mother passed away on July 14th. Her soyem will be held today between Asr and Maghrib prayers at his residence 1A/2A ...

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PDA constitution upgraded

KARACHI – The Pakistan Dental Association (CC) led by Dr Saqib Rashid and his team have upgraded the PDA constitution to address issues of today the ...

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HEC gets extension for plagiarism prevention service

ISLAMABAD – The Higher Education Commission has got one-year extension for the Plagiarism Prevention Service (Turnitin) for around 115 universities ...

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Pakistan outperforms India in controlling Tobacco:WHO

According to a recent statement by the World Health Organization; Pakistan has outperformed India in controlling tobacco use. Recent media reports stated ...

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Training sessions at public hospitals must be recognized by PMDC

RAWALPINDI- Medical practitioners serving at numerous public hospitals in Rawalpindi have urged that training programmes conducted at the District Health ...

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Eight institutions recieve show-cause notice from CCP

ISLAMABAD- Show-cause notices have been issued to eight medical institutions, by the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) after an inquiry report ...

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Closure of understaffed D.G. Khan Medical College

DERA GHAZI KHAN- Following the decision of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) to stop Dera Ghazi Khan Medical College from offering new admission, ...

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Searing Heat – An eye-opener for people at the helm of affairs: expert

KARACHI- The recent spell of heatwave in Karachi should serve as an eye-opener for people at the helm of affairs and as such they must adopt precautionary ...

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