The latest grave assessment from the World Health Organization (WHO) came after UN teams reached Al Ahli Arab hospital and Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, amid reports of intensifying ground operations by Israeli Defense Forces and continuing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, in response to Hamas’s 7 October terror attacks on southern Israel. “Patients were…
Kamal Adwan Hospital was raided by the Israeli military over four days last week and the World Health Organization (WHO) said that many health workers were reportedly detained. “Gaza’s health system was already on its knees and the loss of another even minimally functioning hospital is a severe blow,” Tedros wrote on social platform X….
—File photo All 2 crore people of Islamabad, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan were deprived of health facilities. In the letter, State Life has directed not to admit new patients under the health facility program in the federal territories. The letter states that the Punjab government’s funding for the health facility program in federal areas is…
According to the team, Patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor, limited to no pain management is available at the hospital, and the emergency department is so full that workers must take care not to step on patients on the floor. Al-Shifa Hospital, formerly the most important and largest referral hospital in…
—File photo 3 assistant professors of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar resigned in 3 months. According to hospital sources, 3 assistant professors of LRH have resigned in the last 3 months, Dr. Tariq Sohail, in-charge of pediatric cardiac surgery department is also included among the resigned doctors. Sources say that the in-charge of the ENT…
Briefing reporters from Gaza, Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described corridors overflowing with trauma patients at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where doctors treat people on the floor and fuel, oxygen, food and water are scarce. In just 66 days of fighting, the Strip has been transformed from a “reasonably…
—-File photo In the Children’s Ward of Benazir Bhutto Hospital in Rawalpindi, the risks to newborns have increased due to lack of oxygen. The medical staff of Benazir Bhutto Hospital are worried due to lack of oxygen. Doctors say that the government has given 4 beds in the government hospital, where to keep the fifth…
—-File photo The project of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Institute of Child Health Children’s Hospital has been put on hold. Children’s treatment at the hospital has been delayed for several years while parents are forced to take their children to other cities for treatment. Director of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Institute of Child Health, Dr. Inayat-ur-Rehman while talking to…
—–File photo Management of Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad refused to take 2 surgical robots. The hospital administration says that we need basic machinery, equipment and improvement of the hospital, not robots worth billions of rupees. The administration of Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad has written a letter to the Health Department. Liaquat University Hospital Medical Superintendent…
“Rain will just add further to the suffering” of people in the Strip, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris told reporters in Geneva, at a time when disruptions in sewage pumping and water shortages have caused a spike in waterborne diseases and bacterial infections. The World Health Organization warned last week that since mid-October, over 33,500 cases of…
