The Sindh Provincial Secretary Health, Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi has said that present government is giving top priority to the health sector and to achieve the end goal 100 per cent increase has been made in the budget for improving health services. He said this while addressing the officers of Health Department of D G Health Services, here on Sunday.
A UK-based climate change expert has said that there will be an exceptional change in the temperatures in Pakistan as a whole in the coming years, but that the province of Sindh will be less affected as compared to the other parts of the country.
A lingering dispute between the Sindh government and City District Government Karachi (CDGK) may put the long-awaited Rs 500 million Benazir Transit CNG buses project in doldrums.
Senior health officials on Wednesday confirmed founding a (type 3) polio case in Kambar-Shahdadkot district of Sindh, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 11 this year.
The latest victim of the dreaded virus is a 21-month-old boy, Shahid Hussain of Dost Mohammad village.
Senior health officials on Wednesday confirmed founding a (type 3) polio case in Kambar-Shahdadkot district of Sindh, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 11 this year.
The latest victim of the dreaded virus is a 21-month-old boy, Shahid Hussain of Dost Mohammad village.
Sindh government has selected four consultant firms for initiating feasibility work for the "cluster development" of agro-based small and medium enterprises, sources told Business Recorder on Friday. They said that six companies had taken part in the bidding process, out of them four pre-qualified last Monday.
Deaths because of hepatitis were on the increase in the interiors of Sindh, said Sindh Agriculture University Vice-Chancellor Dr Abdul Qadir Mughal.
But the poor of the province were not aware of the killer disease, he said on Tuesday at the launching of a three-day campaign to diagnose hepatitis B and C, at the university dispensary.
The provincial environment department has proposed an amendment to the Prohibition of Manufacture, Sale and Use of Polythene Bags Ordinance, 2006, to ban the bags altogether irrespective of their thickness, the Sindh High Court was informed on Tuesday.
The Sindh High Court asked the provincial transport department and the city district government to submit a plan for phasing out smoke-emitting, ramshackle and noisy vehicles, particularly two-stroke rickshaws, from the streets of Karachi within two months.
