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Experts advised people at risk of getting diabetes to get themselves screened for diabetes once or twice a year. AP/File
KARACHI: People living with poor diabetes control are more prone to various types of infectious diseases, including Covid-19 as well as lethal infections like mucormycosis, or ‘black fungus’, as the health condition reduces a person’s ability to fight bacteria, viruses and fungus, experts associated with pandemic control measures, care and treatment in Pakistan warned on Monday.
They said in Pakistan several million people were undiagnosed diabetics who were unaware of their health condition, and they could contract infectious diseases more easily than healthier persons. They advised people at risk of getting diabetes to get themselves screened for diabetes once or twice a year.
KARACHI: As the nation expresses anger through demonstrations against Israel and shares solidarity with the people of Palestine, more than a hundred Pakistani women doctors in over a dozen countries joined hands with their counterparts through a technology-driven initiative providing medical support and care to thousands of people under trauma in Gaza and other bombarded cities, officials and people attached with the project said on Saturday.
They said that the female doctors were brought back to the provincial health system through a technology-driven initiative by one of the oldest public sector medical universities in the country, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), which has so far succeeded in bringing back to the profession hundreds of Pakistani lady doctors, who have resumed professional practice within the last two years after they had quit the profession due to family or social issues.
No right answer to regaining sense of smell
National
May 21, 2021
KARACHI: “Have I lost my sense of smell and taste permanently after contracting the COVID-19?” is one of the common questions asked by people from otolayrngologists (ear, nose and throat ENT specialists) and neurologists these days, but nobody has the right answer yet.
Some of them believe both the senses would return with the passage of time, while others fear these are lost permanently.
“A lot of people are coming to me and other ENT specialists with complaints that they are unable to taste food and smell even after several months after contracting the COVID-19. These are mostly asymptomatic patients, who lost both senses i.e. smell and taste after contracting COVID-19 but never regained them”, says Prof. Atif Hafeez Siddiqui, an ENT specialist associated with Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi.