THE Sindh government’s agreement with the World Bank to combine health, nutrition, sanitation, social protection and agriculture programmes acknowledges that child stunting cannot be treated by the health department alone. The proposed secretariat, district committees and dashboard could replace scattered schemes with targets and accountability. But institutional architecture will mean…
KARACHI: The Senate committee on August 6 sought details of the Sindh Healthcare Commission’s (SHCC) findings from its recent inspection of Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital, run by the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI), where nearly 100 children were found to be infected with HIV/AIDs. It also asked the provincial authorities to…
RAWALPINDI: A six-year-old girl went missing and was suspected to have been swept away in an open drain/nullah near Committee Chowk, Lunda Bazar, in the early hours of August 6. However, on the complaint of the girl’s father, the City police later registered a kidnapping case and launched an investigation.…
THE deaths of 144 children from measles and diphtheria in Karachi during the first seven months of the year expose a grave failure of routine immunisation. That failure is evident in the large number of children who receive their earliest vaccines but are never brought back for the doses needed…
EVERY year in August, Breastfeeding Week arrives with the same kind of messaging all over the media: ‘breastfeeding is best’. That is where the conversation begins and ends. This year, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, alongside Unicef and the WHO, has deliberately questioned the math behind it all, instead…
PESHAWAR: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Peshawar on August 4 declared the results of the annual Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, with around 30 per cent of 10th-grade students and nearly 60 per cent of 9th-grade students remaining unsuccessful. According to the exam result gazette issued by…
A PROJECTION that Pakistan’s population could reach 400m by 2040 should not be treated as another dramatic number to be quoted at ceremonies and forgotten by the next budget. It is a warning about the size of the state’s future obligations. Every additional child will need vaccination, nutrition, schooling, safe…
PARENTS want the very best for their children. That is never in question. But wanting the best and knowing what the best is are two different things, and in the early years of a child’s life, the impact of that difference can have consequences that are difficult to undo. In…
LAHORE: An alleged chronic drug addict was arrested after reportedly attacking and injuring his wife and three daughters in the Kahna area here on August 2. The police identified the suspect as Irfan and lodged a case against him. According to initial police reports, the suspect, on the day of…
TAXILA: The lives and safety of more than 80 children, most of them girls, enrolled at Government Boys Primary School on the outskirts of Taxila are said to be at risk due to excessive excavation around the school by a private housing society, cutting off safe access to the campus…
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