Category: Health

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir)  In its latest ‘2022 INTERCOVID Study’ conducted in 41 hospitals across 18 countries, including the Aga Khan University Hospital in Pakistan, the global network led by the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute (OMPHI) at the University of Oxford has cited that pregnant women who were vaccinated, were well protected against severe COVID-19…

Get Comprehensive Healthcare at Your Fingertips: Find My Doctor and Sina Health Join forces to enhance KMC healthcare initiatives for Karachi residents. Pakistan (Muhammad Yasir) Find My Doctor, a premier online healthtech platform, has partnered with ISO 9001-certified medical laboratory Sina Health to bring comprehensive digital healthcare services to the residents of Karachi. The collaboration…

Karachi (Nut Desk)  The Aga Khan University commemorated the launch of a new book titled “Making Health Systems Work in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” which is a textbook for public health practitioners worldwide. Published by Cambridge University Press, this book is co-edited by public health experts Sameen Siddiqui, Awad Mataria, Katherine D. Rouleau, and Meesha…

AKUH’s Pharmacy Trainee Programme Receives the Coveted American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists Accreditation. Becomes the largest Programme of its kind in the world and the first in Pakistan. Advances  AKUH’s  pharmacy traineeship Programme to a residency model. Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) The Aga Khan University Hospital’s flagship Pharmacy Trainee Programme has received the coveted American…

Pakistan (Muhammad Yasir) A delegation led by GM Ali Nawaz Chaudhry of Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited (KTML) visited The Diabetes Centre here today in a bid to discuss ways for collaboration between the two entities under the umbrella of KTML’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program.  GM Ali Nawaz Chaudhry was accompanied by Manager HR Rashid…

Pakistan (Muhammad Yasir) To raise awareness of the impact of vision impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors (URE) in children, ‘Noor’, a film starring Sarwat Gillani and Umair Rana has been released by international development organization Sightsavers during a ceremony held in Islamabad. Over 4 million children in Pakistan are estimated to have Uncorrected Refractive…

NADRA, Shifa International Hospital sign a first of its kind agreement on the provision of ID Verification System Introduction of ID Verification System under e-health initiative is yet another pioneering digital intervention for public good: Chairman NADRA. Health sector to enormously benefit from NADRA’s digital system enhancing transparency and fairness of organ allocation: Tariq Malik…

(NUT DESK) Karachi The groundbreaking of a state-of-the-art medical healthcare facility aimed at providing world-standard treatment services to up to one million deserving patients in a year was performed here in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area. The non-profit Imamia Medics International (IMI) in partnership with Baqir Health and Educational Welfare Trust and Zaidi Abid Foundation USA has…

Consul General of the UAE Collaboration with  Afzaal Memorial Thalassemia Foundation for Awareness of Thalassemia across the Province. Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) An event organized by H.E. Bakheet Ateeq Al Remeithi, Consul General of the UAE, Karachi in collaboration with Dr. Asim Qidwai, Founder & CEO, Afzaal Memorial Thalassemia Foundation, for the Awareness of Thalassemia across…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) The Aga Khan Hospital for Women in Karimabad, Karachi and Aga Khan Maternal and Child Care Centre in Hyderabad, part of the Aga Khan University Hospitals (AKUH) network; and Aga Khan Medical Centre in Gilgit, part of the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) network, have become the first hospitals in Pakistan to…