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Obesity in Pakistan is a health issue that has effected concern only in the past few years. Urbanisation and an unhealthy, energy-dense diet (the high presence of oil and fats in Pakistani cooking), as well as changing lifestyles, are among the root causes contributing to obesity in the country.
According to the National Health Care Act 2017, every patient has the right to receive life-saving care without advance payment for treatment. Healthcare professionals and establishments are obligated, under all circumstances, to treat an emergency patient. [2] EMS in Pakistan include pre-hospital emergency care, such as ambulance services.
The People's Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of the country was established in response to a World Bank report based on the World Health Organization's health model. It focuses on shifting the healthcare system from primarily curative approaches to a more preventive and promotive model of care. [5]
PESHAWAR (Reuters) -Pakistan's health ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned from a Gulf country, it said on Friday, though they did not yet know ...
Primary Healthcare system is the very basic health system for providing accessible, good-quality, responsive, equitable and integrated care. Primary healthcare in Pakistan mainly consists of basic health units, dispensaries, Maternal & child health centers and some private clinics at community level.
2,502 basic health units; 316 rural health centers; 88 Tehsil headquarter hospitals; 36 district headquarter hospitals; 46 Teaching hospitals/tertiary care hospitals; Pakistan is number 8 out of the 22 most disease burdened countries in the world. TB is most common in Pakistan.
The Sehat Sahulat Program is a flagship social health insurance initiative launched by the Pakistan Muslim League (N) in 2015 with the name of 'Pakistan Sehat Card' [1] [2] [3] to provide free healthcare services to the underprivileged population of the country then carried on by PTI government in 2019, under name of Sehat Sahulat Card later known as Sehat Insaf Card. [4] The program is ...
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 ...