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Life expectancy in Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world with population approaching 225 million. It is a developing country struggling in many domains due to which the health system has suffered a lot. As a result of that, Pakistan is ranked 122nd out of 190 countries in the World Health Organization performance ...
The country's health sector is also marked by urban-rural disparities in healthcare delivery and an imbalance in the health workforce, with insufficient health managers, nurses, paramedics and skilled birth attendants in the peripheral areas. [5] [6] Pakistan's gross national income per capita in 2021 was $4,990 and the total expenditure on ...
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan was established in 2012 and is the largest department in the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, with its headquarters in Islamabad and regional offices in the provincial capitals of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. DRAP has been established by the Federal Government ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). The virus was confirmed to have reached Pakistan on 26 February 2020, when two cases were recorded (a student in Karachi who had just returned from Iran and another ...
A new study by the United Nations children’s agency says developing resilient energy systems to power health facilities in Pakistan could avert over 175,000 deaths by 2030. UNICEF said improved ...
Polio in Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries [1] [2] in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, [3] the other one being Afghanistan. [1] While it has yet to fully eradicate Polio, there has been a downwards trend in the number of reported cases per year; the total count of ...
The National Institutes of Health, Islamabad (NIH) ( Urdu: قومی ادارہَ صحت ), is a Pakistani research institute located in Islamabad, Pakistan. The institute is an autonomous body of Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, mainly responsible for biomedical and health related research along with vaccine ...
In 2009, Pakistan’s government stated its intent to improve the country's nursing care. Nursing is a health-care profession which is mainly aimed on the care of families and individuals. Nursing is important in every part of the world, especially in developing countries like Pakistan. In 2021, Pakistan faces a great shortage of trained nurses.