M. Waqar Bhatti
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Doctors in Pakistan prescribe more than twice WHO-recommended medicines: study (opens the original)
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ISLAMABAD: Patients in Pakistan are being prescribed more than twice the medicines recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), with generic prescribing also remaining low, a new study found. The study was carried out by researchers at the Health Services Academy (HSA), Islamabad, and published in the journal Discover Public Health. It reviewed 15 research papers on prescribing practices at hospitals and clinics across Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan and Islamabad, covering
Pakistan's 2026 polio tally reaches four as fresh case surfaces in KP (opens the original)
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Pakistan has reported its fourth polio case of the year, with the latest case detected in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) said on Friday. According to the NEOC, the affected child is a resident of Nurar Union Council in the Miryan tehsil of Bannu. The virus was detected in an eight-month-old child from Miryan tehsil of Bannu, said the health department. Three of the four polio cases reported in Pakistan this year have emerged from Bannu divis
Pakistan witnessing faster rise in night temperatures than day: PMD (opens the original)
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Pakistan’s average temperature has increased by 0.95℃ since 1981, which has made nights warmer than daytime and transformed rainfall patterns into less predictable and uneven, The News reported, citing a Pakistan Meteorological Department scientific report led by Chief Meteorologist Dr Faisal Saeed Syed. The report, How the Climate of Pakistan has Changed: Evidence from 45-year Data Record, was prepared by Dr Faisal Saeed Syed, Bilal Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Zaheer Ud Din, Sajid Ali, and Adeel Sadiq
Health experts urge Pakistan to conduct first nationwide HIV survey (opens the original)
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Leading public health experts and infectious diseases specialists have urged the government of Pakistan to conduct its first nationwide HIV prevalence survey, as they warned that HIV has spread beyond high-risk groups and that the country lacks accurate data on the true scale of the epidemic, The News reported. Eminent public health expert and Vice Chancellor of the Health Services Academy, Prof Shahzad Ali Khan, described the situation as a major public health emergency, saying 729 children dia
Finance minister-led committe approves prices of 52 life-saving drugs (opens the original)
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ISLAMABAD: A cabinet committee, headed by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, has approved the prices of newly listed 52 life-saving medicines, paving the way for their availability after final approval by the federal cabinet. The medicines included cancer drugs, insulin, vaccines, and others. The decision was taken at the eighth meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Drug Pricing, constituted by the prime minister to consider recommendations of the Drug Pricing Committee and the Policy Board of t
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