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Health care in Pakistan is mostly private where the government provides a small amount of the total health expenditures, with the remainder being entirely private, out-of-pocket expenses. Health care delivery in Pakistan on the other hand, is the worst of both worlds; not only the health care delivery is predominantly private there are no ...
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan was established in 2012 and is the largest department in the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, with its headquarters in Islamabad and regional offices in the provincial capitals of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. DRAP has been established by the Federal Government ...
Pakistan's suicide rate is below the worldwide average. The 2015 global rate was 9.5 per 100,000 people [31] (in 2008, 11.6). Suicides represent some 0.9% of all deaths. Pakistan's death rate, as given by the World Bank, is 7.28 per 1000 people in 2016 (the lowest rate in the 2006-2018 period). In 2015, the suicide rate in Pakistan was ...
Name of NGO Cause PWA: PWA (Patients' Welfare Association) is a non-profit, non-governmental, largest student-run organization of Pakistan. It has Pakistan's largest single-outlet blood bank in Civil Hospital Karachi and a Thalassemia Daycare Centre with around 250 registered patients receiving blood transfusions and management of thalassemia, all free of cost.
Child labour in Pakistan is the employment of children to work in Pakistan, which causes them mental, physical, moral and social harm. Child labour takes away the education from children. [ 1 ] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country , half of whom were under age ten.
On 19 August 2017, after the state funeral of German-born Pakistani nun Ruth Pfau, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah ordered to rename The Civil Hospital, Karachi to Dr. Ruth K.M. Pfau Civil Hospital as an acknowledgment of "selfless services of the late social servant". She was also widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa. Since 1960 ...
According to a report of Arab News, Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan took lead in coronavirus activities in Pakistan by effectively responding to the pandemic. [2] Alkhidmat set up the hospital in response to the deaths of hundreds of children in the Thar desert region in 2014, resulting from severe drought and malnutrition. With 60 beds, the ...
The hospital is a project of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a non-profit legal entity established under the laws of Pakistan. The Board of Governors formulates overall policy and consists of bankers, researchers, businessmen, and physicians. The hospital is managed by a professional team from clinical, administrative, and nursing backgrounds.