KARACHI: A government audit has unearthed suspected financial irregularities worth Rs40 billion at Karachi’s National ...

A staggering Rs40 billion corruption scandal has surfaced at Karachi's National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), according to a new audit report for fiscal year 2023-24. The revelation, ...

NICVD is now the sole comprehensive children’s heart center in Pakistan. Over the past five years, around 600,000 children have been treated, an extraordinary number for any institution worldwide.

NICVD is already running eight Chest Pain Units in Karachi that provide first-aid to a person in case of heart attack and shifts it to the main cardiac facility in a life-saving ambulance for the ...

NICVD calls raid unjustified, a source of stress among doctors and staff.

Regarding the NICVD centre in Hyderabad, Dr Qamar said it had been providing treatment to cardiac patients and 88 angiographies had been performed at the centre till then.

“Children’s operations in the NICVD have been free of charge for over a month,” said Prof Nadeem Qamar, executive director of the NICVD while speaking to the media.

To cope with the growing number of cardio-vascular patients, the management of National Institute of Cardio-Vascular Diseases (NICVD) has decided to examine the patients in the afternoon as well ...

In 2010, after the passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, the Health Sector was completely devolved to the provinces and rightfully so, since health being a major necessity, the idea of ...

Doctors at the national heart institute have conducted a heart surgery without cutting chest bones in a minimally invasive procedure alternative to open heart surgery, first of its kind in any ...