KARACHI: Plea to reactivate govt run Unani clinics
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, April 10: Sindh Minister for Health Syed Sardar Ahmed, said on Tuesday that efforts would be made to reactivate the government clinics meant for traditional (unani) healthcare at the earliest.
He was talking to a delegation of Wafaq Uteba-e-Paksitan (Federation of Tabeeb of Pakistan led by Hakim Salam Arif Azeemi, which called on him.
After hearing the delegation, the minister assured them of his cooperation and asked for a list of non-functional or closed government run unani medical centres.
The minister was informed by the delegation that a unani research council which used to help assess the quality of the unani medicinal products had been made ineffective or non-functional.
The delegation urged the health minister to take initiatives for the establishment of a unani degree medical college in Karachi and inclusion of unani mode of medical practices in the national health policy.
PMA LETTER: In the meantime, Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has sent a letter to the federal information minister, urging him to put ban on advertisement of “quick fix medicine and health practitioners in the print and electronic media.
In a letter, Secretary PMA Dr S.M. Qaiser Sajjad, expressed concern over the unchecked advertisement of quick fix medicines, magic herbs and other health related products and said that the manufacturers and marketers of such products were allegedly fleecing poor and uneducated people besides harming their health.
