KARACHI: Emphasising the need for creating public awareness about epilepsy, experts at a programme held on 11th February shared that the much stigmatised neurological disorder largely affected young children, the majority of whom could be effectively treated, if the disease was timely
Seminar calls for urgent global action to prevent environmental destruction KARACHI: Capitalism’s relentless pursuit of profit has pushed the planet to the brink of disaster. The survival of life on Earth is now tied to the dismantling of this exploitative system. “Now
From poor female employment numbers to a growing housing crisis, Karachi Census 2023 presents an accurate image of issues that need to be addressed in the city. “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support not illumination.” —
The National Epilepsy Centre, JPMC, with the Epilepsy Association of Pakistan, Pakistan Chapter of International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and Epilepsy Support Pakistan, Full Chapter of International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE), held a press conference at Port Grand. This landmark event marked
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 03-February-2025 launched the February 2025 National Immunisation Days campaign by administering polio drops to children at an official ceremony at the CM House. The initiative aims to immunise over 10.6 million children under five
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