Emergency Medicine in Pakistan is slowly getting expanded. Now we are seeing another institute getting accredited in Quetta, Balochistan for the training of Emergency Medicine. This will mark the 18th Center for the training in Pakistan and is a moment of great happiness. Emergency Medicine training is done through College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan(CPSP) […]
Pakistan Society of Emergency Medicine is holding its second elections. It is creating the required momentum slowly yet surely. The people who started the emergency medicine in Pakistan had worked hard to make emergency medicine a relevant discipline in health care in Pakistan. Part of that goal was to establish a society of emergency medicine […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP Oct 2019 Coming out of the leadership summit in Emergency Medicine, we worked collectively to develop a roadmap for all of us to come to one page and improve the care and make it safe for the patients. Emergency Physicians from all over the world with Pakistani background and the […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP September 2019 It is said that if you are not the part of the solution, then you must be part of the problem. It does hold true for the emergency care in Pakistan. Our fragmented system of health care has always been seen as broken and needed to be fixed. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Aug 2019 We are witnessing the rise in the level of interest and understanding regarding the emergency medicine in Pakistan. What we started about seven years ago in getting a facelift. A blog was started in 2012 and is getting a new place here along with some of the resources […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACPJuly, 2019 Global warming causes weather changes and one of the width is the heat waves. The resultant public exposure to this heat wave phenomenon can be very diverse dating. The experience of 2015 in Karachi tells us that we all need to be ready if something of that magnitude happens […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Dec 2012 No discussion or plan is complete if it does not generate an action plan or does not give any road map and the practical steps. We end our emergency care series with what I perceive as a workable plan. I have tried my best to formulate things based […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Nov 2012 Moving forward, let us see now what changes needed to be brought into the healthcare System, who are the stakeholders and let us talk about the intended beneficiaries. A good system requires proper ground work, healthy infrastructure, appropriate guiding principles, good Support Systems and talented operators. Presently we […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Oct 2012 I have defined the current situation in the last post, which gives us the whole scenario of emergency care in Pakistan, lets explore the next logical step. This step is basically defining what we actually want and why we like to change the current system of emergency care. […]
Abdus Salam Khan, MD FACP, Sep 2012. Welcome to the third article of the series of articles on emergency care. We will be discussing the level of infrastructure and the care in Pakistan. This will be another piece of the puzzle regarding the emergency care in Pakistan. The first step in the direction of improving […]
