A Consultative meeting with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) representatives was organised at IHRA Secretariat to discuss standards for Rehabilitation Centres. CEO IHRA appreciated the input of UNODC team Dr Manzoor ul Haq and Ms Rashda Said Niazi in development of MSDS for Rehabilitation services. The implementation of these MSDS will bring improvements in quality of healthcare services provided to the citizens of ICT.
A Consultative meeting with area experts & stakeholders was held at IHRA to finalize the standards for Human Cells & Tissues Transplantation. IHRA officials along with experts Dr Murat Erturk, Dr Salman and Col (R) Rauf Ahmed Khan participated in the meeting under the chairmanship of CEO,Participants of the meeting emphasised on the need for regulations of Human Cells & Tissues Transplantations.
Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority has developed and launched an online system for Healthcare Registration, the HCEs can visit IHRA official website and can get registered online and they can communicate with IHRA through this system…
The Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) inspection teams in continuation of their activities carried out inspections of 43 Healthcare Establishments (HCEs) in different areas of Islamabad Capital Territory. 10 HCEs were sealed for major non-compliance’s while 15 were served notices over minor non-compliances.
A consultative meeting regarding the inflow of new COVID-19 cases was held at IHRA for better coordination between District Administration ICT and hospitals. Meeting was chaired by Additional DC Mr Sheheryar Arif Khan, representatives of private hospitals of Islamabad Capital Territory were present in the meeting. They were advised to ensure dedicated Covid-19 facilities in the hospitals for the preparedness of Covid pandemic situation.
Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) has intensified its extensive drive against quack clinics in the federal capital on Thursday.
During raids in the outskirts of the capital, several quacks were found running their medical clinics while treating patients and even conducting minor operations.On which, the IHRA inspection teams sealed many such clinics besides issuing warnings and confiscating expired medicines and testing kits.
Many such centers were put under surveillance to check any attempt to restart quackery since unqualified persons were reportedly running these centers at the time of raids.
Keeping in view the increasing number of Dengue cases, Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) organized a Training of Trainers session for the Healthcare Establishments in Islamabad on PITB Dengue Activity Tracking System, to ensure accurate and responsible reporting of confirmed Dengue Cases by the Healthcare Establishments. The training session was honored by the presence of Dr. Quaid Saeed, CEO, IHRA, with Mr. Omer Mushtaq as the trainer from PITB. A total of 23 representatives of Hospitals and Labs attended the session, for acquiring adequate information and instructions for proper data entry of Dengue cases on a regular basis.
In the past week Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) carried out inspections of 36 healthcare establishments including hospitals, rehabilitation centres, diagnostic labs, collection points, dental clinics, medical centres, g.p clinics and homeo/tibb clinics. 23 of these healthcare establishments were served notices for different irregularities including keeping expired reagents, lack of qualified staff and proper waste management mechanism and were also directed to apply for registration with IHRA.
