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Demanding roll back: Paramedics protest freezing of health-risk allowance
Federal hospitals staff’s protest enters second day.
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Safeguarding prisoners’ rights: Call for legislation to end custodial torture
Speakers lament that a proposed anti-torture law pending since 2010.
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Overworked nurses : FGH short of at least 24 nurses
Study reveals no new recruitments have been made at hospital since 2012.
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Primary education: 64 schools merged with other educational institutes in Pindi
Low enrolment, poor performance, lack of trained teachers among reasons
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Post-devolution issues: Call for unified vision to streamline health policy
Public-sector allocations for health are just 0.4 per cent of GDP.
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Overlapping of services : Disaster management mired in confusion
Response suffers as parallel federal bodies work on the same thing
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Orders from the top: Health, education staff to work on Eid
CM’s adviser orders officials to take part in anti-dengue campaign throughout holidays
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Literary reference: Abdullah Hussain hailed as ‘a writer for the people’
Writers, poets remember legendary novelist
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Monsoon woes: Health centres told to be prepared for disease outbreak
Waterborne diseases, typhoid, cholera, malaria and cases of snakebite usually increase in monsoon
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Health risk allowance: Paramedical staffers protests against freeze
Threaten to expand protest if finance division does not withdraw notification