LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says a state-of-the-art Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Centre is being set up in the provincial metropolis...
He said this at a meeting on Friday, which reviewed the project...
GUJRAT: The district government has planned a ‘Kidney Centre’ to be built on a two-kanal piece of state-land, to be funded by local business community and other philanthropists, in collaboration with the Patients’ Welfare Association (PWA) and the Red Crescent Society...
The project’s estimated cost is Rs70 million, out of which Rs43 million will be spent on the building and the remaining amount on provision of dialysis machines,...
GUJRAT: DCO Liaquat Ali Chatha along with local politicians and businessmen laid the foundation stone of the kidney centre here on Wednesday...
The 23-bed project would be completed within six months under the public-private partnership...
FAISALABAD: Faisalabad District Headquarters Hospital’s six-bed kidney centre has no nephrologist and urologist...
Three months after its inauguration, 94 beds of the building are still useless...
GUJRAT: The work on the first kidney center has entered into a final stage with construction on the third floor is expedited so as to make the health facility functional by the end of current month...
The recruitment of staff has already begun as former medical superintendent of Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital (ABSTH) Dr Tahir Abbas Gondal has been posted as its administrator...
GUJRAT: The Kidney Centre Gujrat has finally become functional on Thursday with 16 dialysis machines installed, while the health facility established through public-private partnership will have nine more such machines...
The piece of land on Circular Road near Prince Chowk, where the Kidney Centre has been constructed, was donated by a local philanthropist woman to the Gujrat Red Crescent Society...
A 24-year-old man, who was admitted by his parents to a drug rehabilitation clinic in Rawalpindi's Panj Sarki area a week ago, died of alleged torture by the facility's medical staff on Saturday, DawnNews TV reported...
The victim's father told DawnNews TV that he had admitted his son — who had been using drugs for a year — at the said centre on Sept 9...
ISLAMABAD: Some private hospitals of the federal capital are involved in the sale and purchase of kidneys, said MNA Babar Nawaz Khan on Thursday during a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on National Health Services (NHS)...
The MNA was defending his bill titled ‘Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues (Amendment) Bill, 2017’ during a meeting of the committee at the National Institute of Health which was chaired...
NOWSHERA: The Federal Investigation Agency busted an illegal kidney transplant racket in Pabbi area here early on Tuesday and arrested a doctor and his team...
The development came as an FIA team from Multan raided the privately-owned Dua Medical Centre on the main Peshawar-Nowshera Grand Trunk Road near Pabbi Bazaar on a tip-off...
Veteran singer Alamgir has been battling polycystic kidney disease for years and is ready to take the next step towards relief from the pain he has long suffered...
Alamgir is about to leave for Atlanta, where his kidneys will be removed as a preliminary procedure for his kidney transplant next year...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notices to the Punjab health department on a petition questioning lack of kidney treatment facilities at public hospitals in the province...
Advocate Farooq Badar filed a public interest petition and said except Mayo Hospital of Lahore, there was no adequate facility for kidney patients in government hospitals of the province...
The Balochistan Institute of Nephro-Urology Quetta (BINUQ) made history on Thursday with the first-ever successful renal surgery in the province...
Kidney transplant procedures for three patients were successfully completed at the BINUQ facility this week...
PESHAWAR: The government has decided to include free kidney transplantation and treatment of burn patients in Sehat Insaf Card Programme under which 19,000 deserving patients have received free treatment for emergency ailments since January 1...
“We are in talks with the Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) to provide free kidney transplant services to the patients...
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Monday censured the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) investigating officer in an illegal organ transplant case for producing a suspected woman after the court’s time to get her statement recorded under Section 164 of CrPC...
Magistrate Talat Mahmood admonished Investigating Officer Khizar Abbas Hashmi for also not producing the remaining suspects and record of the case before the court...
LAHORE: A family on Monday lodged a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) alleging that the doctors involved in the illegal organ transplant had “killed” its boy during the procedure...
“The family of Kashif today approached us and told how they lost him at the hands of the doctors in question during kidney transplant,” FIA Deputy Director Jamil Ahmed Khan told Dawn...