Dental Tribune Pakistan Edition No.1, 2017

PUBLISHED IN PAKISTAN www.dental-tribune.com.pk JANUARY, 2017 - Issue No. 01 Vol.4 Cementation of zirconia Anesthesia-free and drill-free deep decay removal Infection control in an era of emerging infectious diseases CLINICAL DENTAL LAB Page 4 CLINICAL PRACTICE Page 6 DENTAL HYGIENE Page 7 National Health Programme to go Nationwide: PM DT Pakistan Report I SLAMABAD - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced extension of the National Health Programme to the entire country. Under the directives of the prime minister, the programme will now have a countrywide outreach, offering free-of- cost treatment to the poorest. (cid:9) The PM while presiding over the meeting at the PM house said that access to quality healthcare services is the inherent right of all Pakistanis, which was unfortunately denied to them for long. It is only through provision of quality and affordable health services that a nation can achieve its full potential and gains on the economic and social fronts. The government is committed to reach out to the poorest of the poor with a comprehensive package of curative health services(cid:9) The NHP was launched by the prime minister in Dec 31, 2015, for Islamabad and described it as the first step towards making the country a welfare state. The scheme was to be extended to all parts of Punjab, Balochistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit- Baltistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as the governments of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had declined to become part of the scheme in which they also had to contribute their share. (cid:9) The KP government has also launched its own programme which at present is confined to a few districts of the province. (cid:9) Under the federal government programme, a family gets Rs50,000 for secondary care treatment which begins as soon as a patient is hospitalized, covering all kinds of diseases. (cid:9) Each family can get a treatment of Rs250,000 under the category of priority diseases which includes cancer, Continued on page 15 Number of Pak doctors in US growing DT Pakistan Report to him. (cid:9) I SLAMABAD - The number of Pakistani doctors in the US is increasing, this was stated by the President of Federation of State Medical Boards of United States during his recent visit. Pakistan will become the 3rd biggest country to provide doctors who fulfil the space of international doctors in the USA.(cid:9) During the recent visit of Dr Humayun J Chaudhry, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC) where a detailed presentation regarding functioning and licensure and CME was given PM&DC also arranged visits for the delegate in public, private and military medical dental college's i.e. Army Medical College, Rawalpindi Medical College, CMH, and Holy Family Hospital to brief the medical and dental educational system of Pakistan. Dr Humayun said that till to date, 12000 Pakistani national physicians and specialists doctors are working in 56 different states of USA. (cid:9) He also added that Pakistan is the 4th biggest country to provide doctors in USA and it is getting more advancement in the field of medicine and system of medical dental education and its standard is at par with the western countries.(cid:9) He said out of 12000 doctors, 3100 doctors are graduated from Dow University of Health Sciences, 1900 from King Edward Medical College then from Agha Khan University and also Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore. (cid:9) He apprised that the Pakistani national doctors in USA are having a very good repute and are considered the best doctors. He congratulated PM&DC being a responsible monitoring body and to maintain good standard of education in Pakistani medical and dental colleges. PPMA denies Pharma companies’ nexus with DRAP DT Pakistan Report K A R A C H I - T h e P a k i s t a n Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (PPMA) strongly denied the impression created by what it called elements having vested interests that the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has been working for the interests of Pharma companies saying that factual position to this day is quite opposite to this utterly false notion. (cid:9) Spokesman for PPMA issued the statement to this effect, in reference to the news story carried by a daily English newspaper on 26 January, 2017 titled "Drap accused of working for Pharmaceutical companies' interests". (cid:9) He said it had always been the stated position of the PPMA. DRAP has its own mandate regulate health sector including pharmaceutical Medical devices & Alternate medicine. PPMA has its own point of to Continued on page 15 PDA takes on SRB Issue DT Pakistan Report K ARACHI - PDA central council President along with Dr Mervyn Hosein and Dr Fehmed Patel visited the chief secretary to resolve the S i n d h R e v e n u e B o a r d i s s u e o f implementing sales tax on some of the dental specialties. (cid:9) The PDA president informed the chief secretary and the relevant staff of SRB that the said SRB notification is unjustified since most of the work which SRB has classified under Cosmetic dentistry and orthodontics is due to deformities and not exactly for cosmetic reasons. For instance Cleft lip comes under cosmetic surgery but is a deformity which needs to be corrected. Similarly malocclusion is a medical condition and requires treatment so it has to be differentiated from plastic surgery or b e a u t y e n h a n c e m e n t p r o c e d u r e s . He urged the authorities that dental services do not come under Cosmetic and Plastic surgery. As such we are excluded providing or rendering aforesaid services as defined in the Sindh Sales Tax on services Act 2011.

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