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Federal Health Minister Urges Action As Vaccination Refusals Hindering Polio Eradication

Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal has expressed serious concern over vaccine refusals, stating that nearly 43,000 parents in Sindh — 42,000 of them in Karachi alone —have refused polio vaccination for their children, posing a major obstacle to the eradication efforts. He made these remarks while visiting the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre for Polio (EOC) in Sindh to assess…

CII To Deliberate On Mothers Milk Registry Today

ISLAMABAD: Senior child specialists from the Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN) Karachi on 25-March-2025 urged the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to approve the establishment of Pakistan’s first human milk bank, rebranded as the “Mothers Milk Registry,” to save thousands of premature babies who cannot survive without…

Birth Registration Of Girls Remains Low

Majority of women and girls have no legal existence in the official…

Vaccines Given To GB At Risk

GILGIT: The quality of vaccines provided by the Unicef to the Gilgit-Baltistan…

Polio Cripples Another Child In KP’s Tank, Tally Reaches 13

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s fight against polio suffered another setback as health authorities have confirmed the detection of a new case of wild poliovirus in District Tank, located in the southern belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This latest case brings the national tally to 13 so far this year, with seven reported from…

Two Children Die, Over 20 Injured As Madrasa Roof Collapses In Tando Jam

Hyderabad: At least two children died on 26-June-2025 evening in a tragic incident in the Tando Jam town near Hyderabad where the roof of a madrasa collapsed during a thunderstorm. Over 20 other children were reportedly injured as a result of the roof collapse. The casualties were reported from the…

Schools Violating Vacation Orders Penalised

SWABI: Complaints pouring in from different circles have forced the officials of the district administration to take action against schools who failed to comply with the provincial government’s order of summer holidays. The provincial education department has closed both public and private sector schools for summer holidays on June 15,…

24 Mohmand Girl Schools Closed Due To Staff Shortage

MOHMAND: Local government representatives in Mohmand district have sounded alarm over what they describe as a ‘systematic collapse’ of women education in the region, citing the closure of 24 government girls’ schools in upper and lower Mohmand due to staff shortages and alleged corruption. Speaking at a news conference at…

Polio Team Attacked In Diamer

GILGT: A monitoring team involved in the ongoing anti-polio campaign in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) came under fire in the Tangir Shekho area of Diamer district on 02-June-2025, a day after a new case of polio detected in the area. No casualties were reported in the incident, which officials say was triggered…

Polio Case Detected In GB’s Diamer, Virus Genetically Linked To Karachi

GILGIT: A new case of wild poliovirus has been reported from Tangir Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district, with preliminary lab analysis linking the virus to a strain previously detected in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area, officials told The News on 01-June-2025. According to health sources, the affected child is a two-year-old boy…

Experts Warn Of Growing Use Of E-cigarettes, Other Smokeless Tobacco forms In Schools, Colleges

“Recent studies show that school and college students are using e-cigarettes and other smokeless tobacco (SLT) forms, more than adults everywhere, and about 37 million young population aged 13-15 is using tobacco globally. Surprisingly in Pakistan, 1,200 to 1,500 youngsters begin smoking every day, and this results in hundreds of…

School In Lower Dir Short Of Classrooms, Teachers

LOWER DIR: Despite Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s claims of imposing an ‘education emergency’, the dismal condition of a primary school in Tangu Manz area of Rabat Dara paints a different picture. During a visit to the school on Saturday, social activist Daim Shah told journalists that over 700 boys and girls…

Shortage Of Schoolbooks Distresses Students, Parents

KARACHI: The academic year in schools across Sindh started in April but despite the passage of around two months, there is a persistent shortage of textbooks for classes one to matric as hardly any class’s complete course pack is available in the market. A visit to the Urdu Bazaar has…

Schoolteachers Across GB Protest Denial Of Promotions

GILGIT: Despite rain and winds in different parts of Gilgit-Baltistan on 31st May, government schoolteachers continued to boycott classes and hold a protest sit-in for a sixth consecutive day to press the authorities for their one-point agenda of long overdue promotions. Academic activities at government schools across Gilgit-Baltistan have been suspended…

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