Singapore: A new study has found that between 1980 and 2020, 135 million deaths have occurred globally due to air pollution caused by human activities. According to researchers at the Singapore-based Ninyang Technological University (NTU), weather patterns such as El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole have increased the amount of these pollutants in the…
—File photo Patients of the capital Karachi are facing a shortage of tetanus injections. Senior Vice Chairman Pakistan Chemist and Druggist Association Abdul Samad Budhani has said that the patients are facing problems due to shortage of tetanus injection. Senior Vice Chairman PCDA says that ATS injection of tetanus is non-existent in Karachi, due to…
File photo Due to heatwave, the postponed polio campaign in 6 districts of Balochistan has started from today. Dera Bugti, Jafarabad, Awsta Mohammad, Sahabpur, Sibi, Naseerabad were feared to be affected by the heat wave. The anti-polio campaign in 14 districts of Balochistan, including Quetta, continues on the sixth day. Polio teams are going door-to-door…
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…
Karachi: Excessive use of antibiotic drugs has become the cause of 7 lakh deaths annually in Pakistan. Experts say that as a result of infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs, 300,000 people die directly in Pakistan every year, while 700,000 people die of various complications every year. become Antimicrobial resistance, or the increasing…
—File photo Anti-polio campaign in 3 tehsils of Bajaur has been postponed due to security concerns. Anti-polio campaign in Navgai, Loi Mamond and Wada Mamond has been postponed. On Tuesday, a police officer posted on security duty of the anti-polio team was killed by gunmen. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’,…
The large Indian Ocean island is amongst the poorest in Africa where the majority of people make their living off the land or sea. Like many other countries in the region, it is suffering the effects of climate change. UN News’s Daniel Dickinson travelled to the village of Mokala in Anosy region where he spoke…
File photo. In Pakistan, about seven thousand children die every day due to various diseases, out of which about 150 children lose their lives due to various birth defects. Congenital defects or birth defects of children can be corrected by operation or surgery soon after birth but unfortunately there are less than 200 pediatric surgeons…
(Photo: Queen Mary University) London: A new study has found that girls as young as four years old are experiencing joint pain due to obesity. A review of data from 120 children from the National Child Measurement Program and data from general practitioners found that girls were twice as likely to complain of musculoskeletal (related…
Thousands of families continue to be displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week while fighting between Government forces and the powerful RSF militia, which erupted last April, continues. WFP Regional Director Michael Dunford said the crisis impacting Sudan, South Sudan and Chad has created “the world’s largest displacement crisis”. Acute…
