Thk Asylums in the Punjab are situated at Lahore and Delhi. The former is the larger, having a daily average population of 238*09 as compared with 111*23 in the latter. The report on the Lahore Asylum points to rather an unsatisfactory condition of affairs. The buildings are unsuitable, the expenditure was high, and the warder establishment worked b'dly. There were 40 deaths, the highest number...

BACKGROUND The stigma attached to mental illness in the West is now well recognised. There is however, only limited information available on this topic from the developing countries. Measurement of stigma among medical students and doctors is straightforward to carry out allowing targeted work to educate doctors in countries with few resources. This study was carried out to assess the attitude ...

This research mainly focuses on the use of Geographical Information System in management of power distribution system. Traditional management system is not only manual but also has flaws such as difficulties in searching previous records and updating them, which is very time consuming task. Using GIS, Roads and buildings of UET Lahore have been mapped. Another layer of HT/LT network of UET Laho...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of monthly reports submitted by lady health workers of National program for family planning and primary health care in district Lahore. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in district Lahore from November 2008 to February 2009. Forty lady health workers were selected using stratified random technique. Four monthly reports (one from eac...

years we have come across four cases of kalaazar, two of which were imported cases, and of the other two, one got the infection at Mussoorie and the other at Lahore. Reports of these two cases are summarized below :? Case 1.?B. N. G., Hindu male, aged 33 years, born and brought up in Lahore, had not been out of Lahore in the past seven years, was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on 2nd Octobe...

OBJECTIVE To assess the present waste management system of healthcare facilities (HCFs) attached with Shalamar Hospital, Lahore by applying the 7-S technique of Total Quality Management (TQM) and to find out the outcome after imparting training. STUDY DESIGN Interventional quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Shalamar Hospital, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, November, 2009 t...

The current study was carried out to find out the infection rate of gastrointestinal tract (GIT) helminths and its association with diarrhoea in goats in Lahore, Pakistan. For this purpose, 300 faecal samples from goats suffering from diarrhoea presented at the Outdoor Hospital, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, UVAS Lahore and various private as well as government hospitals located ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the awareness about nephrology and kidney diseases in medical officers and postgraduate trainee doctors working in institutes with and without nephrology departments. METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted at Nephrology Department, Shalamar Hospital Lahore from 1(st) Jan to 31(st) Mar 2013. Doctors working on medical floor with more than one year experience afte...

BACKGROUND Streptomyces avermitilis, belonging to Actinomycetes, is specialized for production of avermectin, used as an anthelmintic and insecticidal agent. It is mostly found in soil and its isolation is very crucial for medically important avermectin production. OBJECTIVES In the present study, 10 bacterial isolates lacking antimicrobial activities were isolated from the soil samples colle...

Chimpanzee is the most intellectual species among the animal kingdom. One-year (2009-2010) study on Chimpanzee was conducted to access the impact of captivity on their social behavior at Lahore Zoo. The group consisted of two pairs; one adult and other sub-adult housed in two separate cages. The data was recorded by instantaneous point-sampling technique to determine the frequency, prevalence a...