Afghanistan’s most recent floods killed about 350 people, including dozens of children, and damaged more than 7,800 homes leaving over 5,000 families displaced. UNICEF has since provided safe water, hygiene kits with soap, toothbrushes and more to communities in Afghanistan. The children’s fund also organised hygiene sessions to teach civilians about handwashing and safe water storage…
File photo After the Chief Minister of Sindh informed about the death of 6 children due to measles outbreak in Patuki, the health department officials visited the affected area. Apart from this, the World Health Organization team also visited the affected area. DHO Dr. Farooq Haider has said that 5 children who died of measles…
The in-kind donation – part of the ‘Grain from Ukraine’ humanitarian initiative launched by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – arrived in the coastal city of Port Sudan and was loaded onto WFP trucks for emergency food distributions. The UN agency is working around the clock to urgently deliver critical food assistance to families who are struggling…
Due to the closure of X, users are facing severe problems: Photo: Qilil In Pakistan, the users of the social networking website X (formerly Twitter) are facing severe problems due to the service being affected. According to Downdetector.pk, a real-time internet and social media outage and monitoring service, X’s service has been down since February…
—File photo The rush of people affected by pneumonia has increased in the hospitals of Lahore. In this regard, the head of the Provincial Public Health Lab, Dr. Hasnain Javed, while talking to Geo News, has told that there is a rush of people affected by pneumonia in the hospitals. He says that due to…
Bogota: Soccer players who hit the ball with their head can have a significant decline in brain function. According to media reports, a research study in this regard has come out in Columbia, which was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Michael L. Lipton, senior author of the…
–File photo 296 people were infected and 3 died due to gastro outbreak in Sabi city of Balochistan. According to the health department, 296 cases of gastroenteritis have been reported in Sabi since November 1. According to the health department, an emergency response team has been deployed in view of the gastro outbreak in Sabi…
symbolic image. In the context of increasing cases of seasonal influenza/flu in Pakistan, the advisory of the National Institute of Health Islamabad has said that cases of influenza have increased across the country. According to federal authorities, more than 33,000 cases of ILI or influenza-like illness were reported last week. The highest number of influenza…
To get rid of the polio virus, the problem of contaminated and dirty water must also be solved. This year, the number of children affected by polio virus in Pakistan has increased to 4. According to experts, unfortunately, due to lack of awareness among the people and inattention of the government, 30 percent of children…
File photo The epidemic of conjunctivitis is increasing in Punjab, the number of people affected by the eye disease in the province has reached close to one lakh. Health department sources say that after conjunctivitis infection, eye drops and rose water have become rare in most cities. Conjunctivitis sufferers are scrambling for drops. In this…
