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Archive for February, 2012

Carrying a price tag of Rs 1.1 million, AKUH’s unique pacemaker saves a life

Amar Guriro KARACHI – In the first of its kind procedure in Pakistan, doctors at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) successfully implanted a heart rhythm monitoring device – an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) – in a 14-year-old girl from Balochistan. A press release issued by the AKU Public Affairs Department on Tuesday claimed that it [...]

Om Namah Shiva…FOR HE DRANK HALAHALA

Amar Guriro KARACHI – The Hindu community throughout Sindh has renovated and decorated its temples with colourful flags, lights and buntings, and religious photos and statues of Shiva in all Shiva temples in Karachi that have been bathed with milk to celebrate one of the biggest Hindu festivals, the Maha Shivratri (the Great Night of [...]

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