Dr Shershah Syed
With a rise in the number of reported incidences of medical practitioners being abused and physically attacked by patients...
Published 20 Sep, 2020 07:00am
To win the battle against cancer, we need to understand what causes the disease and streamline our healthcare system...
Published 01 Mar, 2020 07:06am
To win the battle against cancer, it is imperative that we understand the enemy and develop policies accordingly
Published 05 Jan, 2020 07:40am
The newly created council of the PMDC has a delicate task ahead to standardise medical education in the country
Published 21 Jul, 2019 05:53am
Tragic incidents of errors leading to loss of life continue in hospitals because of the lack of trained nurses
Published 02 Jun, 2019 07:16am
The president’s initiative to create a nursing university seems divorced from the reality on the ground and what needs
Published 14 Apr, 2019 07:08am
Quackery is deep-rooted in our society and cannot be eliminated unless the public is educated and a proper healthcare
Updated 05 Nov, 2018 12:28pm
An expert highlights an agenda for the new government to tackle the abysmal health sector at the grassroots level
Published 02 Sep, 2018 06:58am
With provincial governments abdicating their responsibility to deliver healthcare, the system has been rigged to the
Published 06 May, 2018 07:05am
Pakistan needs its ‘Flexner Moment’ to completely revamp the structure for training doctors
Published 11 Feb, 2018 06:39am
State-of-the-art hospitals and thousands of doctors are not enough to run a healthcare system.
Published 12 Feb, 2017 07:22am
Pakistanis owe their tertiary healthcare system to the British because after Partition governments have made no effort.
Published 07 Aug, 2016 06:43am
A year before Partition, the British proposed radical changes to the healthcare system to deliver universal healthcare;
Published 12 Jun, 2016 07:06am
The community pays taxes to help run government medical colleges, but when it comes to payback time, the doctors go
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
Plans to set up a new medical university, raises the question of improving poor standards in the existing ones
Published 06 Dec, 2015 06:33am
