Health

M. Waqar Bhatti Islamabad: Federal Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination, along with senior child specialists, nutritionists, and UNICEF representatives in Pakistan, have strongly objected to the inclusion of multinational company Nestle and local dairy company FrieslandCampina in the ‘Punjab Nutrition Board’. They questioned how companies responsible for causing malnutrition among Pakistani children…

M. Waqar Bhatti Islamabad: At a time when health ministers, policymakers, and senior government officials from around the world are attending the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Pakistani delegation is being led by a retired government official on the payroll of a British organization and a low-level non-medical person from the National Health…

M. Waqar Bhatti Islamabad: Despite the deregulation of medicine prices by the government of Pakistan, another multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer exited Pakistan by selling its manufacturing facility in the SITE area of Karachi along with ‘selected pharmaceutical products’ to Lucky Core Industries (LCI), officials announced on Saturday. Prior to Pfizer’s exit, several other multinational pharmaceutical…

Staff Report The new children’s emergency room at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, managed by ChildLife Foundation, has successfully treated 200,000 children, since its establishment in August 2022. This milestone marks a significant achievement in combating child mortality rates in Pakistan, with the survival rate of critically ill children notably on…

Staff Report The cabinet has decided to deregulate the prices of non-essential drugs. However, the prices of those medicines included in the list of essential categories will not be deregulated.    The cabinet has approved the restructuring of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to unbundle the national carrier into two companies. Federal Cabinet meeting chaired by…

Staff Report The cabinet has approved an increase in prices of 146 essential life-saving medicines. The federal cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar, convened to discuss and approve several important decisions: Medicine Price Hike The Federal Cabinet, acting upon the recommendation of the Ministry of National Health, has approved an increase in the…

Staff Report European Union (EU) may consider allowing Pharmaceutical Imports from Pakistan to EU countries to fetch more in export revenues. Pakistan has been relying on two key sources of bringing dollars into Pakistan. These dollar revenue sources included exports and remittances. EU has already granted GSP plus status to Pakistani production that had increased…

M. Waqar Bhatti Islamabad: Despite strong opposition from the caretaker federal health minister Dr. Nadeem Jan, federal secretary of health Iftikhar Shallwani Thursday repatriated former Director General Health Services Dr. Abdul Baseer Khan Achakzai to his parent department in Balochistan. Dr. Abdul Baseer Khan was serving as officiating Director General Health Services at National Health…

By Newztodays Team The caretaker government has turned down a proposal for an over 300% hike in drug prices.  The caretaker government in a recent meeting chaired by the caretaker prime minister had taken up the matter of hiking the prices of drugs. The drugs pricing committee (PDC) had recommended over 300 percent increase in…

M. Waqar Bhatti Islamabad: Former health advisors and officials have recommended an ‘advisory role’ for healthcare professionals serving abroad instead of reserving ‘permanent seats’ in the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) council and the advisory board of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan. The advisory role can be assigned to the representatives from the…