Healthcare strategies and initiatives about COVID19 in Pakistan: Telemedicine a way to look forward.

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the unprecedented devastating catastrophes with severe public health threat globally. Low and middle income countries (LMICs) are trying hard to cope with the rapidly changing global scenario and trying to mitigate this double crisis of pandemic and economic recession. This pandemic, has led to major changes in global and regional health care delivery proceedings with surge in telemedicine to provide the required services and also giving priority to control the disease spread.

Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma within a choledochal cyst; a rare cause of obstructive jaundice.

Bile duct cysts are rare and of uncertain origin. Most have been reported in young females of Asian Descent. The long term complication of choledochal cysts includes malignant transformation in the epithelial lining of biliary tree.

Oral health manpower projection methods and their implications for developing countries: the case of Zimbabwe.

Manpower projections for oral health are generally held to be more accurate than those for other health sectors since the diseases involved and their treatment times can be predicted more precisely. Nevertheless most oral health manpower projections are either overestimates or are not in line with the resources of individual countries, especially in developing countries. Zimbabwe was taken as the study case, and oral health manpower projections were made using two of the most commonly employed methods and one new approach.