KARACHI: Educationists, social scientists and parenting experts have warned that the increasing use of mobile phones among children is severely affecting their mental health and academic performance, citing research findings indicating that 77 percent of children who use mobile phones for more
KARACHI: Sharing their clinical observations and data gathered during medical camps organised in four desert-belt districts over the past four years, speakers at a seminar held on 13th August underscored the need to integrate mental health into primary care services and initiate
ISLAMABAD: First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, and parliamentarians from across the political spectrum on 11-August-2025 signed a landmark joint declaration on gender, breastfeeding, and nutrition in Pakistan, pledging coordinated action to protect child health, empower
In what is a significant achievement for both the province and the country, the government of Sindh has completed Pakistan’s first real-time digital birth registration. Baby Messam Abbas was officially registered at the moment of birth at the Sindh Government Hospital, Qasimabad,
The Sindh government is preparing to deploy its first squad of female motorbike ambulance responders, health authorities said on 06-August-2025. The women will work as part of a gender-inclusive emergency response team, riding specially equipped motorbikes to reach patients in hard-to-access areas.
ISLAMABAD: With less than a month to go before Sindh launches its ambitious HPV vaccination campaign for adolescent girls, a new survey reveals a catastrophic gap in public awareness as only 5 per cent of caregivers in the province have heard of
At a time when fewer than 2,000 newborn infants in Pakistan genuinely require breast milk substitutes due to maternal death, critical illness or rare metabolic disorders, the country consumes formula milk and baby food worth over Rs110 billion every year, officials and
Naheed, a Hafiz-i-Quran from Mirpurkhas and mother of two, has spent the last eight years within prison walls awaiting a decision on her pending appeal. Her embroidery and crochet work, sold through a prison-run sewing centre, sustains her children on the outside.
Sindh has screened over one million people for Hepatitis C under a groundbreaking public-private partnership that achieved a 96.7 percent cure rate in two high-burden districts, making it one of the most successful hepatitis elimination efforts in Pakistan to date, officials claimed
In the wake of the recent collapse of a residential building in Lyari, the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) has declared 590 buildings across Karachi “dangerous”, prompting serious concern over public safety and the condition of ageing infrastructure in the city. The