—File photo During the last 24 hours, 87 new dengue patients have been confirmed in Punjab province. According to Ali Jan Khan, Secretary of Primary and Secondary Health Care Department of Punjab, 14258 cases of dengue have been reported from 36 districts of Punjab this year. According to Ali Jan Khan, 44 dengue patients have…
—File photo During the last 24 hours, 118 more dengue cases have been reported in Punjab province. According to Ali Jan Khan, Secretary of Primary and Secondary Health Care Department of Punjab, 14 thousand 171 cases of dengue have been reported in Punjab this year. According to Ali Jan Khan, 75 cases of dengue have…
—File photo During the last 24 hours, 78 new dengue patients have been confirmed in Punjab. According to Punjab Health Secretary Ali Jan Khan, 13 thousand 859 confirmed cases of dengue have been reported in 36 districts of Punjab this year. Currently, 68 dengue patients are under treatment in hospitals across Punjab. According to Punjab…
—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…
—File photo New confirmed dengue cases are increasing rapidly in Punjab province. 167 new dengue cases have been reported in Punjab during the last 24 hours. According to the Punjab Health Department, 12,655 cases of dengue have been reported in Punjab this year. The Punjab Health Department says that 98 cases of dengue have been…
Punjab government has banned 5 cough syrups in the province. Caretaker Minister Primary and Secondary Health Care Dr. Jamal Nasir says that these cough syrups manufactured in Lahore were also supplied abroad. Dr. Jamal Nasir said that the World Health Organization (WHO) investigation on the Maldivian complaint in the syrups confirmed high alcohol content, on…
—File photo Harmful ingredients have been revealed in the cough syrup made by a pharmaceutical company in Lahore, Punjab province. The Maldivian government and the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued an alert on cough syrup made by a Lahore company. Harmful concentrations have been found in the cough syrup of the Lahore-based company Pharmix…
—File photo Khizr Afzal, head of polio eradication program in Punjab, says that Punjab has been polio-free for 3 years. He has said this in a statement issued. Khizr Afzal has further said that the rate of children deprived of vaccines in October is less than 1.3%. The head of anti-polio program of Punjab has…
—File photo During the last 24 hours, 167 new dengue patients have been reported in Punjab province. According to the Punjab Health Department, 11,353 confirmed cases of dengue have been reported in 36 districts of Punjab this year. During the last 24 hours, 75 new cases of dengue have been reported in Lahore, 36 in…
Water is crucial to rice farmers and when it is lacking, they tend to rely on groundwater. Globally, water taken from underground reservoirs supports 40 per cent of agriculture, but if groundwater levels fall, it becomes harder to reach over time. In Punjab known by some as India’s breadbasket, groundwater is being depleted faster than…
