Health

LONDON: Nearly half of staff working in intensive care units (ICU) in England in the COVID-19 pandemic have severe anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, with some reporting feeling they’d be better off dead, according to a study published on Wednesday. Many ICU nurses and doctors meet the clinical threshold for PTSD, anxiety or problem drinking, and symptoms are so …

LONDON: Vaccination efforts were boosted on Monday as BioNTech pla­nned millions more doses than expected this year and mass inoculation sites opened across England while the world neared two million pandemic deaths a year since the first fatality was recorded. As countries across the globe looked forward to vaccines finally allowing a return to normality in the months ahead, WHO …

ISLAMABAD: The government plans to establish 48 nutrition centres under its Ehsaas programme to overcome common health problems like stunting, underweight and overweight in children under five years of age, especially in under-developed and poor areas of the country. Under this programme, nutrition/health services and conditional cash transfers will be made available to mothers and children. In the beginning, these …

KARACHI: A major anti-polio campaign was launched on Monday to vaccinate nine million children across the province, including two million in Karachi. “Parents must avail this opportunity for the sake of their children’s future and save them from disability,” said Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, who formally inaugurated the drive. Under the current campaign, organised by the Emergency Operation …

KARACHI: The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination has released a notification under which four health facilities — three of them located in Karachi and one in Lahore — have been added to the Schedule of Federal Medical Teaching Institutes Ordinance, 2020. These institutions are Karachi’s Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and …

ISLAMABAD: While 1,877 more cases and 32 deaths were reported in a single day, the number of active cases of Covid-19 was cut by 15,000 in one and a half months. In November 2020, the total number of cases had surpassed the figure of 50,000, but then it started decreasing and on Monday the number of active cases in the …

ISLAMABAD: With the government deciding to purchase 1.1 million doses and the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) having started making preparations to administer Covid-19 vaccine to frontline workers, as many as 9,000 healthcare workers in the federal capital have registered themselves for vaccination. On the other hand, Islamabad reported 150 new patients and three deaths on Sunday. According to …

PESHAWAR: The health department has been diagnosing coronavirus patients quickly with the help of antigen detection rapid diagnostic test (Ag-RDT) as 12 more people have died of Covid-19 and 276 new patients have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The new testing method, started a fortnight ago, has enabled the health department to get fast results of suspected patients at the …

• 285,000 workers to vaccinate 40m children • Strict health protocols to be observed • NCOC reports over 2,800 single day cases, 46 deaths ISLAMABAD: As countrywide Covid-19 cases surpassed the 500,000 mark and the number of deaths reached 10,644 on Sunday, Pakistan will start the current year’s first polio campaign under strict precautionary measures and protocols on Monday (today). …

ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus claimed 46 more lives in the country during the past 24 hours, lifting the countrywide death toll from the disease to 10,644. According to the latest update shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), as many as 2,899 more people tested positive for the infection during this period, taking the total number of confirmed Covid-19 …