LAHORE: The Taskforce on Polio Eradication in Punjab has hailed a notable decline in poliovirus detection in environmental samples across the province, urging authorities to maintain targeted measures to sustain this progress. The announcement came during a meeting held on 23-May-2025 at the Civil Secretariat, where officials reviewed recent advancements in the fight against polio. The taskforce was briefed on the success of the April polio immunisation campaign, which achieved an impressive 98 percent
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has set a target of vaccinating approximately 7.3 million children under the age of five during a five-day anti-polio campaign, which begins on 26th May. Chief secretary Shahab Ali Shah inaugurated the campaign during a ceremony held at the Services Hospital here, according to a press release. Additional secretary health and Emergency Operations Centre coordinator Shafiullah Khan, representatives from Unicef and World Health Organisation, and other officials were in
LAHORE: Punjab Crime Control Department (CCD) reunited 44 missing children recovered from across the province with their families at a ceremony held at the Central Police Office here on 23rd May. Some of these children had fallen prey to drugs, physical abuse, while others had run away from their homes owing to multiple reasons. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Usman Anwar, CCD Additional IG Sohail Zafar Chattha, DIGs Umar Farooq Salamat and Waqasul
KARACHI: Lawmakers finally gave bureaucrats the go-ahead to lead the intermediate and secondary education boards in the province as the Sindh Assembly adopted the controversial bill with a majority vote on 23rd May. The Sindh Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill, tabled in the assembly on Jan 27, 2025, contained one of the most controversial provisions that enables the provincial government to appoint any senior civil servant as the chairman of an educational board.
Paper leak scandal rocks Mardan education board PESHAWAR: A meeting of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s Standing Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education, chaired by MPA Taj Mohammad, convened to address serious concerns surrounding recent controversies in the education sector, including the Mardan Board examination paper leak scandal. The session was attended by prominent members of the provincial assembly, including Iftikhar Mashwani, Ahmad Kundi, Asma Alam, Shehla Bano, Sobia Shahid, Zubair Khan, Muhammad Aftab Haider, Hamidur
The number of polio cases recorded this year continues to tick up, with the ninth and tenth cases confirmed this week. After several years of bouncing between double-digit caseloads and then coming within touching distance of eradication, Pakistan remains a concern for international bodies and donors — and many local experts — because despite the massive financial and logistical support for eradication efforts, security issues and parental refusal have combined to undermine all of the good
With no vaccination drive conducted this year, the latest outbreak continues to threaten the safety of children KARACHI: The future of a nation relies heavily on the health and well-being of its children, who must be protected from childhood diseases through rigorous vaccination drives. Unfortunately, in Sindh, where routine immunization remains a challenge, diseases like measles continue to nip the buds of the country. According to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) of the
QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Balochistan Police registered a case against unknown terrorists in connection with the Khuzdar IED attack on the Army Public School Bus in Khuzdar on the complaint of police on 22-May-2025. The case was registered under murder attempt, murder and Anti-Terrorism act. Sources said that CTD officials have started an investigation into the Khuzdar incident. Meanwhile, the death toll in the suicide attack on the Army Public School
Rawalpindi: The mercury level has been registering record high for days in many parts of the country including this region of the country putting health of general public at risk but the schoolchildren are at the greatest risk of suffering from heat related disorders including heatstroke, heat syncope, heat exhaustion, heat cramps and nasal bleeding. The Punjab government has announced a special timing for all public and private sector schools operating in the province
LAHORE: The Punjab home department has launched an awareness campaign for children to save them from sexual harassment under the chief minister’s “Safe Children, Safe Punjab” vision. In this connection, the home department has developed a special animated films series to raise awareness among the children about “good and bad touch”, releasing its first episode on Thursday. The animated series introduces two lead characters Haya and Bahadur, who educate the children how to protect
Karachi: President of Pakistan Pediatric Association Sindh Dr Waseem Jamalvi on Thursday said that the number of patients with diarrhoea has significantly increased in Karachi due to the port city’s rising temperatures. Dr Jamalvi told Geo News that every day, dozens of people with diarrhoea are brought to public hospitals. He emphasised that the current wave of the illness is affecting children the most. He attributed the primary causes of diarrhoea to contaminated water and substandard
ISLAMABAD: Two cases of polio from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were confirmed on 21st May, taking the tally for the current year to 10. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, confirmed the cases of wild poliovirus in Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts. According to an official, the child belonging to Lakki Marwat is a 26-month-old girl. In Bannu, the victim is a 40-month-old boy from the Wazir tribe