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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided to cover liver and bone marrow transplants for patients under the Sehat Card Plus Scheme, said Chief Minister Mahmood Khan. The decision was taken to provide free treatment facilities to the people and to make the Sehat Card Plus Scheme a comprehensive package of social health protection. The chief minister was chairing a meeting to discuss various matters to improve the health coverage under the Sehat Card Plus Scheme. The minister decided to enhance the annual health coverage for the residents of the tribal districts from Rs0.6 million to Rs1 million per family under the Sehat Card Plus Scheme. The meeting was also attended by the provincial minister for Health Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Chairman State Life Insurance Corporation Shoaib Hussain, Secretary Health Imtiaz Hussain, among others. It was also decided to launch a top-up programme under the scheme with the aim to offer special packages of medical treatment to government employees and the gener...

Technology mogul Elon Musk has a lined up a new gig in addition to his jobs as CEO of electric car maker Tesla and spaceship maker SpaceX. He is going to host the iconic TV show Saturday Night Live. Musk’s scheduled May 8 appearance builds upon his recent run of success. Tesla’s stock is worth nearly six times more than it was before the pandemic started, leaving Musk with an estimated fortune of $177 billion, according to Forbes magazine. And SpaceX just a launched a mission that sent astronauts to the International Space Station. Saturday Night Live doesn’t make a habit of having business executives host its show, but Musk is far from a stuffy corporate type. He regularly jokes around on Twitter, where he has nearly 52 million followers and has gotten into legal trouble for making disparaging remarks about critics and hinting that he might lead a buyout of Tesla that resulted him getting fined $20 million by stock market regulators. Miley Cyrus will be the musical guest on the n...

All provinces have been asked by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) to make sure doctors prescribe medicines with their generic names in the public and private sectors. DRAP gave the instructions after public complaints on the PM’s Citizen's Portal against pharmaceutical companies and doctors reportedly colluding to provide people with costlier medicines under a brand name. A letter was written to the health secretaries of all four provinces, Azad Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan and the Islamabad commissioner by DRAP Pharmacy Services Director Dr Abdur Rasheed. It said citizens had complained through the Prime Minister’s Performance Delivery Unit (PMDU) against company-influenced brand-based prescription of medicines by doctors in government and private sectors. "This practice adds to the economic burden of the country and puts financial load on patients due to purchase of pricier brands. Such practice is also against the Code of Ethics for medical and d...

As many as 10,000 doses of the CanSinoBio coronavirus vaccine developed by China are lying useless at a warehouse in Karachi for the last 10 days as the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan awaits approval to release the vaccines. The single-dose Convidecia vaccine was imported by private company AJM Limited in Pakistan. “This shipment was to be supplied to three hospitals in the country, but it has not yet been released by the DRAP due to red-tapism,” an official of the National Health Services. Pakistan had granted emergency use authorisation to China’s CanSino Biologics Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine in February, 2021 following its successful trials at various health facilities in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The federal government also purchased 60,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine last month, which are currently being used to inoculate the elderly and disabled. https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fjazzpackagess.blogspot.com%2F https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=ht...

Services of social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Telegram were restored in Pakistan on Friday after being suspended for four hours. Earlier today, the interior ministry had directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block social media platforms from 11am till 3pm. The request by the interior ministry to suspend the social media platforms was made in a letter sent to the PTA chairman. Read more:  PTA temporarily blocks social media sites in Pakistan The ministry, in the letter, had requested the PTA to take action on the issue "immediately". "In order to maintain public order and safety, access to certain social media applications has been restricted temporarily," PTA had said in its explanation regarding the suspension of services. The suspension came amid protests by a religious party in the country which led to chaos and the killing of three people, including two policemen. The protests, organised in different ci...

Prince William is said to be looking to end his alleged feud with Prince Harry as Kate Middleton is "hopeful of a reconciliation". According to The Telegraph, the Duchess of Cambridge reached out to her friends saying that it was not too late to “pull them back in”. The brothers will meet for the first time face-to-face at their grandfather Prince Philip’s funeral after the Duke and Duchess came out with an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey. A royal expert has revealed that the funeral will serve as a means for the two to relive emotions of their mother Princess Diana’s funeral. Royal expert Penny Juror told FEMAIL: "This is likely to be a very emotional and reflective time for the entire family. "I am sure that walking behind their grandfather's coffin will bring back difficult memories for William and Harry of losing their mother. "It will probably bring back difficult memories for their father, too. "And I am sure it won't be lost ...

US federal health agencies on Tuesday recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after six women under 50 given the shot developed rare blood clots, dealing a fresh setback to efforts to tackle the pandemic. Following the news, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it was delaying the rollout of the vaccine to Europe, a week after regulators there said they were reviewing rare blood clots in four recipients of the shot in the United States. The moves come after European regulators said earlier this month they had found a possible link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and a similar rare blood clotting problem that led to a small number of deaths. J&J’s single dose vaccine – most COVID-19 shots are delivered over two doses – and AstraZeneca’s low-cost vaccine are seen as vital tools in the fight against a pandemic that has claimed more than three million lives. The White House said the pause would not have a “significant” impact on its plan to ...

The age limit for a single-dose jab of the coronavirus vaccine manufactured by China's CanSino Biologics Inc, or CanSinoBIO, has been slashed by 10 years in the federal capital. According to the report, the age limit for the CanSinoBIO's single-dose coronavirus jab has been reduced from 80 to 70 years, meaning that septuagenarians in Islamabad may now get themselves vaccinated. Asad Umar — the federal minister for planning and development, as well as the head of the National Command and Control Center (NCOC), Pakistan's nerve centre to monitor the coronavirus situation — said Tuesday the effects of stricter restrictions, wider lockdowns, and rigorous implementation of the COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) were starting to show. Initially, the number of positive coronavirus infections had begun declining but cases at the intensive care units (ICU), as well as the mortality rates, could remain high for some time due to the situation over the past two weeks, Um...

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday allowed the government to unblock TikTok, a video streaming application popular among youth, in Pakistan. A bench, headed by Chief Justice Qaiser Rahid, directed the government to ensure that immoral content is not uploaded to the app. “What action have you taken thus far [to have objectionable content removed from the app]?” the top PHC judge questioned the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) director general at the start of the hearing, to which the latter replied that the authority raised the issue with the TikTok management. The management has hired a focal person who will handle the issues of immoral and illegal content that is uploaded to the app, he said. On March 12, the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) had ordered a ban on the short video sharing entertainment app. The court directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block the app “until and unless some mechanism is devised to filter the material which is immoral and...