ISLAMABAD: Unicef has provided seven 4×4 vehicles to Federal Directorate of Immunisation (FDI) to ensure that it would get access to remote regions of Pakistan. “Provision of 4×4 vehicles will help overcome accessibility challenges in hard-to-reach areas of Khyber Paktunkhwa, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. Vaccination of children is one…
PESHAWAR: Parents’ reluctance to vaccinate their children against polio continues to haunt their future in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the December campaign, 111,118 children remained unvaccinated, up from 95,834 in the October-November drive. According to data compiled by officials of the Emergency Operation Centre (Polio) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, during the five-day campaign…
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has urged the federal government to complete pending work on the Rawalpindi Mother and Child Hospital before handing it over to provincial authorities. A senior official of the health department told Dawn that there were two proposals to make the hospital functional. One was to convert…
KARACHI: Raising alarm over multiple outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths of a large number of children across the country, health experts said on 4th January that these precious lives could have been easily saved if the governments at the federal and provincial levels had taken timely measures and plugged…
ALTHOUGH the move has caused panic among weary parents mortified at the thought of carting their children to Nadra offices, the interior ministry’s recent directive to incorporate biometric features into Form B for 10-18-year-olds is not without its merits. While the immediate catalyst for this decision remains unclear, historical instances…
MY daughter, who is seven and a half, is my latest teacher. She is in grade two. She gets a fair bit of homework and she is kind enough that she lets me sit with her when she is doing her homework. I started sitting with her to see if…
2025 will be a year of new openings and possibilities for Pakistan. Several initiatives started during the outgoing year will approach completion and offer opportunities to integrate economic and climate priorities. For Pakistan, economic and climate vulnerabilities reinforce each other and hence they must be addressed simultaneously. We will learn…
ISLAMABAD: The Universal Healthcare (UHC) Monitoring Report for Pakistan 2024 – a yearly report that assesses and monitors the progress of the country’s health sector – has revealed that only half of Pakistan’s population has access to UHC. The country lagged far behind in achieving the global target of over…
SUKKUR: The District Advisory and Implementation Panel has called for devising joint actions for urgent implementation of the Sindh Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding and Young Child Nutrition Act, 2023. Iqbal Detho, chairperson of the Sindh Human Rights Commission who co-chaired a meeting of the panel organised by the National…
ISLAMABAD: Participants of an awareness session on 1st January urged the Punjab government to raise the minimum age of marriage for girls from 16 to 18 years in the province to ensure a safe future for them. They were attending an event organised by the Potohar Organisation for Development Advocacy…
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