Karachi—Sindh Women Development Department is establishing a chain of complaint centres for facilitating assistance to women in crisis and render legal, medical and counselling services to them, APP learnt from official sources.The department is also setting up shelter homes for needy women on a pilot basis while there are schemes for setting up working women hostels in different districts as a tool for social development of

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Karachi—Pakistan Medical Association (PMA - Karachi) has expressed its concern over increasing number of patients with malaria and gastro-enteritis.Dr. Samreena Hashmi, General Secretary of PMA - Karachi talking to APP here on Thursday warned that the incidence rate of the two diseases may assume epidemic proportions if measures were not taken to prevent further spread of these preventable ailments.She, through the platform of PMA, requested City Nazim to declare emergency in the health department and ensure that fumigation was

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Karachi—Sindh Minister for Prisons, Haji Muzaffar Ali Shajra has said that jail inmates are being provided facilities more than the available resources for which cooperation of social and welfare organizations is also available.In a statement, the Minister said that the facilities which the prisoners were provided during the last one year were not provided during the previous regime.In this regard, he said, the budget for food, medical,

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Karachi—President, Diabetic Association of Pakistan, Prof. A Samad Shera has urged for establishment of “diabetes screening units” at all tertiary and district hospitals in the country.Talking to APP the DAP President and Patron of the International Diabetes Conference said this will cost nothing extra to the exchequer.On the contrary it will reduce the massive burden on the doctors serving at the out patient departments of our

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Karachi—DIG South Ghulam Nabi Memon has prepared a “shopping centres security and anti-dacoity action plan” whereby watch towers will be setup in shopping centres and all other bazars to curb the activities of criminals and check dacoities and robberies during Ramzan-ul-Mubarak.Under the plan, a comprehensive planning has been chalked out for security starting from Ist till end of Ramazan and on Eid-ul-Fitr throughout

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