{"id":85361,"date":"2019-07-29T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=85361"},"modified":"2022-11-26T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:21:05","slug":"president-calls-for-re-designing-of-national-hepatitis-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=85361","title":{"rendered":"President calls for re-designing of National Hepatitis Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, July 29 (TNS): President Dr. Arif Alvi says Pakistan is coping with the disease of hepatitis despite having limited resources.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a seminar in connection with World Hepatitis Day in Islamabad on Sunday, he said prevalence of Hepatitis C is increasing in Pakistan due to consumption of unsafe food and water.<\/p>\n<p>He said use of unsafe syringes is also a contributing factor in spread of this disease.<\/p>\n<p>He said prevention is better than cure in Hepatitis and focus should be made on preventive medicines in the curricula of medical colleges. <\/p>\n<p>The President said Pakistan is taking bold measures to eliminate hepatitis and other diseases despite limited resource.<br \/>buy levaquin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkenwellislingtonclinics.co.uk\/wp-content\/languages\/themes\/new\/levaquin.html\">levaquin<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<p>He said that we have to adopt systematic approach to meet health challenges improving awareness mechanism utilizing education system, visiting staff to household and media as well.<\/p>\n<p>He said that dissemination of awareness about disease is also responsibility of doctors working among the people and they should also be engaged to aware the general public.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan is also facing malnutrition, stunted growth and other health problems for which a comprehensive policy should be formed.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked the government to re-design the National Hepatitis Policy. He urged the private institutions to join hand with the government to meet health challenges as these problems cannot be resolved without private partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, speaking on the occasion Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza said that the government will announce a comprehensive package enabling to deal with blood-borne disease including hepatitis.<br \/>buy flagyl online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clerkenwellislingtonclinics.co.uk\/wp-content\/languages\/themes\/new\/flagyl.html\">flagyl<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the government is establishing healthcare system and under this program, health services will also be provided in the schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, July 29 (TNS): President Dr. Arif Alvi says Pakistan is coping with the disease of hepatitis despite having limited resources. Addressing a seminar in connection with World Hepatitis Day in Islamabad on Sunday, he said prevalence of Hepatitis C is increasing in Pakistan due to consumption of unsafe food and water. He said use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107299,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85361\/revisions\/107299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}