Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar is about to complete 100 years of establishment. Alice Edith Isaacs (Lady Reading), the first wife of Rufus Isaacs, Viceroy of India, founded the hospital in 1924. The construction work was completed in 1927. This building block is now known as the Bolton Block. Over time, the hospital was expanded to…
In a stark assessment of the closure of 750-bed facility Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the World Health Organization (WHO) maintained that aid teams had been waiting for “days and days” for Israeli permission to reach the stricken facility, where staff and patients endured “horrific levels of violence”. “We’ve had contact with the staff, the…
Doctors of Jinnah Hospital under the leadership of Professor Shahid Rasool performed robotic surgery—Photo: Express News Karachi: For the first time in the history of Pakistan, robotic surgery was performed on people suffering from diabetes and obesity at Jinnah Hospital Karachi. Professor Shahid Rasool, head of Jinnah Hospital, claims that after this robotic surgery, patients…
File photo On the instructions of Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz, new stretchers and beds were delivered to the emergency department of May Hospital. It should be remembered that Maryam Nawaz had ordered new stretchers and beds to be given to the emergency ward of May Hospital on the demand of patients and doctors. On…
“This is not an isolated incident. Aid convoys have come under fire and are systematically denied access to people in need,” said the UN Humanitarian Country Team in Palestine, after the mission to evacuate 24 patients from Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. The development came amid continued intense fighting across the enclave, sparked by Hamas-led…
—File photo Medical experts say that hospitalized patients are at increased risk of pneumonia, while daily brushing reduces the risk of ‘hospital pneumonia’. According to medical experts, hospital-acquired pneumonia occurs when bacteria in the mouth mistakenly enter the patient’s airways and infect the lungs. The risk of getting ‘pneumonia’ is high. According to an American…
Bahawal Victoria Hospital – file photo 3 more children died of pneumonia at Bahawal Victoria Hospital in Bahawalpur. According to MS Dr. Amir Bukhari, the deaths of children occurred within 24 hours. He has said that 20 children with pneumonia were admitted to the hospital during the last 24 hours. It should be noted that…
The “high-risk mission”, carried out the previous day, was marked by delays at the checkpoint and severely damaged roads. Thousands of hungry civilians also surrounded the UN vehicles and fuel truck in a desperate search for food and water, further delaying the journey. The team reported that functionality at the hospital has improved since the…
In central Gaza, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Sunday that medics at the only functioning hospital in Deir al Balah governorate “had been forced to cease lifesaving and other critical activities…and leave” after an evacuation order issued amid “increasing” Israeli military activity. Only five doctors reportedly remain at Al-Aqsa Hospital in the…
Airstrikes and missiles struck dwellings and public buildings on Tuesday including Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis killing five, among them a five-day-old baby, reports indicate. “No child in the world should be killed, let alone one sheltering under the emblem of a humanitarian organisation; this has to end,” said Gemma Connell, a team leader from…
