Health

KARACHI: Anti-polio drive enters its third day in Sindh including Karachi today (Wednesday).  The drive to administered anti-polio drops to the children will continue till September 27 in the 29 districts of the province. The parents of the children under the age of five years have been urged to administered anti-polio drops to their children in a bid to save …

So far in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed thousands of lives across Africa. The continent’s polio teams – the extensive network of healthcare workers, laboratory experts, data managers and community volunteers – were some of the first on the ground to support the response and help contain national outbreaks. This is not the first time the polio programme has …

ISLAMABAD: Polio immunisation efforts resumed in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad after seven months on Monday. In Islamabad, the vaccination campaign was inaugurated by Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz, who told the press at Musharraf Colony in G-8 that the vaccine will be administered to around 350,000 children up to the age of five. He said the campaign would …

Renowned scientist and Chairman of Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Science and Technology, Dr Atta-ur-Rahman said on Sunday that the clinical trials of the proposed COVID-19 vaccine produced by a well-acclaimed international company will start in Pakistan from this week. He said this while talking to the state-owned news agency. Dr Atta-ur-Rahman said that the International Center for Chemical and Biological …

QUETTA: As many as 237 cases of coronavirus have been reported in educational institutions of Balochistan, confirmed provincial Education department. Schools, colleges and universities across Pakistan reopened on Tuesday, ending a nearly six-month-long closure due to coronavirus pandemic. As per details, shared by the department, so far four universities of the province namely including Agriculture and Watermarine, Engineering University Khuzdar …

CHITRAL: The District Headquarters Hospital, Chitral, has been functioning without a surgeon for one and a half years forcing patients requiring surgical procedure to travel to Peshawar. The hospital has three sanctioned posts of surgeons, including two of BPS-18 and one of BPS-19. The residents criticised the government over failure to cater for the needs of a population of around …

A countrywide polio campaign aiming to inoculate 40 million children will begin in Pakistan today (Monday) and go on till September 25 (Friday). According to a statement issued by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme, this is the first nationwide immunisation drive in the country since February after a four-month suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “The September nationwide polio campaign coincides with …

ac ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported one death due to coronavirus during the last 24 hours, lifting the death toll to 6,416. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 640 more people tested positive for the infection during this period, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 305,671. As many as 292,303 coronavirus patients have recovered their …

WASHINGTON: Covid-19 deaths in the United States topped 200,000 on Saturday while more than 6,740,400 confirmed cases were also recorded. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre had recorded 198,921 deaths by Friday afternoon, which crossed the 200,000 mark on Saturday. Another monitoring agency, Worldometer, reported 203,503 deaths by Saturday afternoon. Dr Tom Frieden, former director of the Centres for Disease …

LAHORE: The initiative for eradication of polio from the country seems to have hit a snag in Punjab as the crippling disease is on the brink of an outbreak apparently due to the apathy of the government, risking the health and lives of millions of vulnerable children across the province. An official report has exposed the efforts of the health …