– File photo 5 patients of Congo virus are being treated at Fatima Jinnah Hospital in Quetta. According to the hospital administration, the patients under treatment were brought during a week, including a 6-year-old child of Qila Abdullah. According to the hospital administration, 35 cases of Congo virus have been reported in Balochistan this year….
OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva that out of 71 aid worker deaths recorded so far this year, 22 had been working in South Sudan and 19 in Sudan. The victims are overwhelmingly local humanitarians working on the front lines of the response, Mr. Laerke said. He stressed that attacks on aid workers…
Attacks on local populations, roadblocks and denial of humanitarian access, continue to fuel suffering in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, Special Representative Bintou Keita told the Security Council in New York. “As I speak today, over six million people remain displaced in [these places],” she stated, urging continued support for underfunded relief operations….
—File photo Congo virus has been confirmed in a patient admitted to Fatima Jinnah Hospital in Quetta. According to the hospital administration, the number of registered patients of Congo virus in Balochistan this year has increased to 34. The hospital administration says that 3 Congo virus patients are under treatment in the isolation ward of…
President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo thanked the international community and the UN for their support and partnership, adding that the gradual withdrawal of the mission, known as MONUSCO, is a necessary step to consolidate the progress made by DR Congo. He deplored peacekeeping missions deployed in one form another for almost 25 years in the DR…
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in the country, Grant Leaity, issued the alert on Tuesday, revealing that youngsters in eastern DRC face daily atrocities, including rape, abduction and recruitment by armed groups. “I visited a centre in Beni and North Kivu for children released from armed groups where I met a couple of one-year-old twins….
—File photo A Congo virus patient died under treatment at Fatima Jinnah Hospital in Quetta. According to the hospital administration, this patient from Afghanistan was brought to the hospital 2 days ago. The hospital administration has said that the number of patients who have died due to Congo virus has increased to 11 this year….
Across the country, there have been at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths in the first seven months of 2023 – many of them children. The worst affected province, North Kivu, has seen more than 21,400 confirmed or suspected cases, including more than 8,000 children under five, according to the Ministry…
File photo. Congo virus has been confirmed in a Peshawar woman. According to hospital officials, Congo virus has been confirmed in a woman resident of Khyber district. In this regard, the hospital authorities further informed that the woman is undergoing treatment at Hayatabad Medical Complex. Hospital authorities say that the patient is being treated in…
File Photo A patient under treatment for Congo virus died at Fatima Jinnah Hospital in Quetta. According to the hospital administration, belonging to Chaman… PNP Deskpnp.com.pk
