Martin Griffiths, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, stressed the critical need for sustained peace efforts during a briefing to Security Council ambassadors. “The conflict in Yemen has been the key driver of humanitarian needs. It has deeply undercut the country’s economy, decimated half of its health facilities, displaced millions of people, and allowed hunger and disease…
The prevalence of dengue has increased in Balochistan’s Kech district and 77 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours. According to the provincial health department from Quetta, more than 400 cases of dengue have been registered in Ketch this year. According to Kech Health Department, more cases of dengue were reported in…
Image Courtesy: Social Media There is a fear of the spread of Covid in the UK. According to data reported in a media report from Manchester, the new type of covid JN1 is increasing. The media report quoted the Bureau of Statistics as saying that the new type of Covid is more common among people…
Priorities include transporting fuel to the north of the war-torn enclave, so that it can be used to power hospitals, provide clean water and maintain other vital civilian infrastructure. Such services have been massively impacted by weeks of Israeli bombardment in response to Hamas’s 7 October massacres in southern Israel that left some 1,200 dead…
UN agencies and partners are scaling up response to the outbreak, which was first declared in Gedaref state, located in the east, on 26 September. At least 2,525 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhoea/cholera have been reported, including 78 associated deaths, in 27 localities across seven states. Millions at risk More than 3.1 million people…
—–File photo An outbreak of the highly rare fungal infection histoplasmosis has been reported in Islamabad. Dr. Naseem Akhtar, Head of Infectious Diseases Department of Pims Hospital, says that 2 cases of fungal infection histoplasmosis have been reported in Islamabad. Dr. Naseem has said that 1 person has died due to fungal infection histoplasmosis while…
–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…
—-File photo An outbreak of unknown pathogens broke out in the ICU of the Medicine Ward of Civil Hospital, Quetta. According to the spokesman of the health department, PCR tests were conducted on 18 people in the hospital, the test report found evidence of 8 patients suffering from Congo virus. The spokesman has said that…
That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province. The agency’s deputy director in Afghanistan Ana Maria Salhuana stressed that to assist earthquake survivors WFP “is having to take this food…
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…
