CCL, the first pharmaceutical company in Pakistan to introduce the UN Sustainable Goals
CCL has a more than 50-year history of contributing to society through its products, services, and awareness activities.
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Launch of Human Rights and Mental Health Report
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United States’ National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) released a report on mental health and human rights in tandem with the Taskeen Health Initiative (Taskeen). The purpose of this report is to draw attention to the human rights violations and malpractice experienced by people with mental health issues due to the lack of adequate policy, legislation, licencing, qualification, and ethical mental health service delivery.
Roche Diagnostics and Telenor collaborate to raise health awareness
Roche Diagnostics Pakistan and Telenor Pakistan have joined hands to raise health awareness in the country’s rural and urban areas. Telenor Pakistan will educate its Khushaal Watan app users about hepatitis and other diseases with a high prevalence and burden in Pakistan through interactive voice response (IVR), SMS, and live shows under the partnership agreement. Telenor Pakistan offers a variety of digital products and services that connect people to what is most important to them.
Pakistan needs 200,000 nurses to meet health crisis
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in Pakistan, Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala, has stated that the country is facing a human resource for health (HRH) crisis, with available resources in the sector meeting only one-tenth of the country’s needs.
Balochistan declares a state of emergency in the health department
In light of the current flood situation in the province, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Secretary Health Department Balochistan, has declared an emergency in the health department. The secretary stated that medical teams were constantly engaged in providing medical services to the province’s flood-affected areas.
The government has been urged to promote new healthcare solutions that make use of cutting-edge digital technology
The government should encourage new healthcare solutions that use cutting-edge digital tools to help people get timely, affordable health care.
In Pakistan, coal dust is threatening the health of children
As children play barefoot outside their mud-brick houses in Duki, a mineral-rich district in southwestern Balochistan, a dark grey dust hangs in the dry morning air.
UAE IS KEEN TO INVEST IN PAKISTAN’S HEALTH SECTOR
Hayat Biotech, a UAE-based biotechnology business, showed interest in collaborating and investing in the digitalization of Pakistan’s health sector on Tuesday.
The CM has launched a tree planting campaign
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan launched the monsoon tree planting campaign on Monday by planting an avocado sapling on the lawn of the Chief Minister’s House.
Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani doctor and advocate for women’s health and rights, died at the age of 92
Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who advocated for women’s health and rights and pioneered the groundbreaking action plan endorsed by 179 nations at the United Nations Population Conference in 1994, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son announced late Monday.