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Life expectancy in Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world with population approaching 225 million. [1] 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 ...
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 Sehat Sahulat Program is a flagship social health insurance initiative launched by the Government of Pakistan in 2015 with the name of 'Pakistan Sehat Card' to provide free healthcare services to the underprivileged population of the country then carried on by PTI government in 2019, under name of Sehat Sahulat Card later known as Sehat Insaf Card. The program is designed to provide ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan is part of the 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 person in ...
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 ...
Mayo Hospital. Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute. Services Hospital Lahore. Lahore General Hospital. Jinnah Hospital. Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Oncology Lahore (INMOL) Cancer Care Hospital & Research Center. Centre for Nuclear Medicine (CENUM), Lahore. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
As per Pakistan Medical Commission 2021 database, there are 176 medical colleges in Pakistan (Medical and Dental Colleges). About 45 medical colleges are public sector medical colleges, and 72 are private sector medical colleges. In addition, there are 17 Public Dental Colleges and 42 Private Dental Colleges. [2]