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Displaced and Migrant Children in Pakistan: Evidence Report
Forcibly displaced children and other child migrants are at higher risk of harmful practices and protection risks, including violence, family separation, human trafficking, increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV), forced labour and psychosocial distress. In Pakistan, where nearly half of UNHCR’s population of concern are children, internally displaced Pakistani children,…
Injectable Polio Vaccine Debuted in Punjab
Provides better protection than oral variety Children up to 15 to be immunised as older kids now identified as key to transmission Drive to be extended to other high-risk urban centres, such as Karachi, Hyderabad Police rescue polio team detained at private school ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health authorities in Punjab on November…
SHC Orders Probe into ‘Delivery of Substandard Medicines’ to Differently-abled Children
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court at Sukkur has ordered an inquiry into substandard medicines for persons with disabilities. The bench directed the Sindh chief secretary and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD) to ensure implementation of the relevant Act of 2018 in letter and spirit.…
Truck Driver Involved in Fatal Accident Booked
LAHORE: Police lodged a case against the driver of the overloaded truck, which had overturned on an autorickshaw late on November 2, leaving four members of a family dead, outside the MAO College. The two minor children who were also traveling in the same three-wheeler, however, survived. The tragic incident…
‘Malnutrition Causing Loss of Billions to Economy’
TOBA TEK SINGH: Malnutrition is inflicting loss of billions of rupees to the national economy through decreased productivity, higher healthcare costs and lost future earnings due to impaired physical development. Education and awareness about nutrition at the grassroots level will help address the issue at the massive scale for a…