The Karachi administration on 01-February-2025 launched a direct outreach campaign to engage parents who had refused polio vaccinations for their children in recent drives, in an effort to bolster polio eradication efforts. The initiative aims to ensure full parental cooperation, so no
With 80,804 children missed during December’s anti-polio campaign, including 45,215 whose parents refused vaccination, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has vowed to eliminate the poliovirus from the province this year by reaching every child through upcoming drives and routine immunisation.
As the Karachi police have failed to control firing during wedding celebrations, there seems to be no stop to the killings of people due to celebratory gunfire. The latest incident occurred on 26-January-2025 afternoon within the limits of the Sacchal police station
Half of the quarter-billion students who faced academic interruptions were in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan KARACHI: In South Asia, the climate crisis has made monsoons fiercer, heatwaves more severe, and floods more relentless —transforming nature’s wrath from a distant threat into an
Formula milk companies are lobbying to have breast milk substitutes or formula milk declared as ‘food’ to remove it from the purview of health and medicine authorities, enabling them to freely market their products without regulatory oversight, health experts warned on 25
Listen KARACHI: Sharing concern over the country’s high infant mortality and morbidity rates, health experts on 25th January stated that the single step that can help mothers save the lives of their babies is to breastfeed them, at least exclusively for the
Senator Sherry Rehman, chairperson of the Standing Committee on Environmental Change in the Senate, addressed a seminar on environmental pollution and its impact on heart health via video link. In her address, Senator Rehman emphasized the growing threat of air pollution to
KARACHI: Expressing serious concern over the alarming levels of environmental pollution affecting public health, experts called for urgent corrective measures, including implementation of strategies to prevent pollution exposure and related cardiovascular diseases, on 24th January at a seminar. They also underscored the
In a tragic incident in Baldia Town on 23 January 2025, a man said to be a drug addict allegedly strangled his wife to death. The incident took place at a house located in Baldia Town Sector 12-E within the limits of
Despite being a low transmission season, around 10 children are currently admitted at the Sindh Infectious Diseases Hospital (SIDH) at NIPA in Karachi with measles, while four children are undergoing treatment for diphtheria. Similar cases are being reported at other health facilities