Anti-polio campaign started in different cities

PNP DeskNovember 27, 2023September 17, 202406 mins

—File photo Anti-polio campaign started today in different cities across the country. A 7-day anti-polio campaign has been started from today across Sindh including Karachi. According to the spokesman of the Sindh Health Department, a target of immunizing more than 1 crore children has been set in Sindh, while more than 80,000 polio workers and…

Increase in rate of thalassemia patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

PNP DeskJuly 16, 2023September 14, 202403 mins

—File photo In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the rate of thalassemia patients started increasing due to inter-family marriages. Gula Khan, a resident of Wazir Bagh area of Peshawar, brings his 10-year-old son suffering from thalassemia for blood transfusion twice a month. Gula Khan says that due to the custom of marriages in his own family in Pakhtun…