59 per cent of health professionals yet to be offered Covid-19 vaccine M. Waqar Bhatti
Around 81 per cent of healthcare professionals in Pakistan are willing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 but 59 per cent of them have not been offered the vaccine, says a joint survey conducted by the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) and Gallup Pakistan.
“Around 89 per cent of surveyed health professionals worked in facilities where they could encounter Covid-19 patients. Of them, 32 per cent have tested positive previously,” said PIMA Central President Dr Khubaib Shahid while announcing the results of the survey.
He said 59 per cent of the health professionals had not been offered vaccination and this ratio was 74 per cent in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan distributed over 650,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses to the provincial authorities by March 5, 2021, and 249,000 front-line health workers received both the first and second doses by Sunday, according to Special As
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Karachi
March 7, 2021
The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) said on Saturday that it can’t allow below-merit students to gain admission to medical colleges and become medical professionals on the basis of their parents’ wealth, and announced establishing a fund for meritorious students who can’t afford medical education.
“Around 8,000 students of Sindh secured over 60 per cent marks in the recently held Medical & Dental College Admission Test [MDCAT], but they weren’t able to gain admission to private medical colleges because their parents couldn’t afford it,” PMC President Dr Arshad Taqi told a webinar.
“Now we’re being asked to allow admission to those students who were below-merit, just to fill the seats of private medical colleges, which is unacceptable to us!”
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March 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: About 81% of doctors in Pakistan are ready to get vaccinated against coronavirus, while 14pc of the health professionals have refused to be vaccinated, according to findings of a survey conducted by Gallup Pakistan. More than 500 doctors across the country were surveyed in collaboration with Gallup Pakistan of the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association.
The survey found that despite intentions to get vaccinated, 59% of the people said the vaccine was not yet available, while 41% said they had already been given the COVID-19 vaccine shot. According to the survey, 74% of the doctors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa complained of the vaccine being inaccessible.