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Punjab CM Launches Initiatives For Special Children

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has introduced a series of groundbreaking initiatives aimed at improving the lives of special children across the province. These initiatives encompass healthcare, education, employment, and safety measures to ensure the well-being and empowerment of children with disabilities. As part of these efforts, 40,000 special children have undergone health screenings, leading to the diagnosis…

Children With Disabilities Showcase Talent At PNCA

Islamabad: The Directorate General of Special Education (DGSE), Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (M/o FE&PT), celebrated Pakistan’s 78th Independence Day with great zeal and patriotic spirit. The day began with a dignified flag-hoisting ceremony at the National Centre for Physically Challenged Students where all enrolled students and staff…

Special Persons To Have Access To Best Learning Facilities: Official

ISLAMABAD: Special Education Director General Asif Iqbal Bhatti on 12th March said…

Over 100 Million Pakistanis Overweight: Health Experts

ISLAMABAD: Chronic obesity is silently killing and crippling thousands of relatively young…

Frequent Administration Of Injections Causes Paralysis In Polio-infected Children: Experts

PESHAWAR: Frequent administration of injections was causing “provocative poliomyelitis” as three of the four polio affected children detected so far in the province had paralysis caused by wrong injections administered mostly in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Skeletal muscle injury makes sufferers exposed to complications of concurrent poliovirus infection. The…

College For Special Children Okayed

MARDAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved establishment of inter college for special children in Mardan. Special Education Deputy Director Aneeq Ahmad said here on October 11 that the provincial government, while taking a historical step, approved the establishment of inter-college for special children in the district. He said that officials…

Foundation Stone For First Autism School

LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on 4th October laid a foundation stone of the country’s first autism school in the public sector. She directed the authorities concerned to immediately start hiring autism experts. “Pakistan’s first autism school project is very close to my heart. A child with autism deserves compassion…

Secretary Told To Evaluate Research On Visually-impaired Students

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on 4th October directed the Punjab school education secretary to evaluate a representation of two social workers seeking facilities for visually-impaired students in the educational institutions of the province. Justice Shujaat Ali Khan heard a petition filed by Sakhi Usman and Ali Abbas, who being…

Three More Polio Cases Take Year’s Tally To 21

ISLAMABAD: The country reported three more polio cases on Saturday, raising the total to 21 for the year, with affected children belonging to Qila Abdullah in Balochistan, Karachi’s Keamari in Sindh, and Mohmand in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This prompted the prime minister’s focal person for polio eradication, Ayesha Raza Farooq, to…

Lahore, Rawalpindi Districts Children Missed In Polio Drives Result In Positive Samples

LAHORE: Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) coordinator and Punjab polio programme head Khizer Afzaal has said the health teams have been missing children in the vaccination campaigns due to poor planning and low-quality micro-plans resulting in consistent positive environmental samples in Lahore and Rawalpindi districts. Presiding over a meeting held to…

Experts Call For ROP Screening To Save Newborns From Blindness

KARACHI: Born this year in March, Musa spent several days in a hospital incubator, fighting multiple health complications, before he got reunited with his mother. Over a month later, he gradually developed an eye illness that doctors described as ROP (Retinopathy of Prematurity), a vision-threatening disease and one of the…

Religious Scholars Pledge To Clear Misconception About Polio Vaccination in KP

PESHAWAR: Religious scholars representing different schools of thought have brushed aside misconceptions regarding the polio vaccine and called upon parents to ensure the vaccination of their children to save them from disabilities. They were addressing a conference organised by Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in collaboration with Muttahida Ulema Board and…

Autism Therapeutic Clinics To Be Set Up In 10 Districts

PESHAWAR: The health department will establish autism therapeutic clinics in 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to ensure free rehabilitation of the 150,000 children diagnosed with the disease in the province. These clinics will operate on a no-profit-no-loss basis, ensuring affordable care for all affected children in Peshawar, Haripur, Mardan, Charsadda,…

Balochistan DCs Discuss Efforts To Curb Polio

QUETTA: After almost a dozen cases of poliovirus in Balochistan since January, an emergency meeting was held in Quetta on 18 August, attended by the deputy commissioners of all 35 districts of the province. The meeting was held to prepare a strategy for the fight against the polio virus, which…