THE situation in Gaza over the last more than eight months has left close to 40,000 people dead, with about 50 per cent of them being children. Many more are at risk due to starvation and inaccessibility to healthcare. The global community of health-providers has more than once strongly condemned the fact that 31 of …
THE ethics of relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals is constantly being challenged by the increasingly dominant corporate face of healthcare. Innumerable studies have clearly demonstrated the influence of financial and other exchanges on prescription writing practices of physicians, especially in case of one-to-one interactions with industry representatives. The healthcare system in Pakistan, …
جینیٹک کونسلنگ: اہمیت اور مسائل پاکستان میں بچوں کی شرح اموات اتنی زیادہ ہے کہ ممالک کی درجہ بندی کی فہرست میں پاکستان سے زیادہ شرح صرف چند افریقی ممالک کی ہے جبکہ کئی افریقی ممالک کی شرح پاکستان سے بھی کم ہے۔ حالیہ اعداد و شمار کے مطابق اس میں سے پچاس فیصد بچے …
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دوا ساز کمپنیوں کی مارکیٹنگ پاکستان کی ڈرگ ریگولیٹری اتھارٹی نے 17 نومبر 2021 کو شعبہ صحت سے منسلک کمپنیوں کی مارکیٹنگ سے متعلق سرگرمیوں کے ضابطہ اخلاق پر مبنی ایک ایکٹ جاری کیا۔ اس ایکٹ کو کئی حلقوں میں سراہا گیا کیوں کہ اس میں واضح طور پر دوا ساز انڈسٹری کی طرف سے …
KARACHI: Hospitals should have monitoring bodies to report, record and thoroughly investigate medical error(s) with the aim of bringing about improvement in the healthcare system. The current practice of naming and shaming individuals by the media must stop and there should be efforts to develop a relationship of trust between doctor and other caregivers. These …
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SAY NO TO GUNS The Karachi Bioethics Group (KBG) strongly opposes the weaponization of Pakistani society. Every day Pakistanis are falling to guns and deaths by targeted and random shootings are on the rise. No segment of society is safe any longer. According to the figure of Human Rights Commission in Pakistan, in Karachi alone …
April 11, 2012 Honorable Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court of PakistanConstitution Avenue, Islamabad Telephone: 051-9220581-9220600Fax: 051-9213452 Email : mail@supremecourt.gov.pk Dear Sir, We, the members of Karachi Bioethics Group, wish to bring to your notice an issue of major financial repercussions to the public health care delivery sector of Pakistan. …
RECENTLY an announcement has been made in a section of the press through an advertisement regarding introduction of the Da Vinci robotic system for surgery in a public-sector hospital in Karachi. The advertisement did not mention anything about the present status of this hospital where there is a chronic shortage of commodities such as beds, …
I would like to approach the readership of your journal through these columns in order to explore an issue that is assuming alarming proportions here in Pakistan. It has become commonplace for physicians here to appear in commercials, directly or indirectly promoting products. Up till a few years ago we would see professional models dressed …
We the members of the Karachi Bioethics Group, professionals from several healthcare institutions in this city, wish to strongly condemn the recent, widely reported episode of the brutal flogging of a teenage girl in Swat, an area which is an integral part of our country.Against all norms of humanity and decency, she was held down …