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APP Peshawar: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is experiencing a significant rise in gastroenteritis and diarrhea cases due to severe heat and humidity.  According to health department sources, 25,996 individuals have been reported affected in…

APP Hyderabad: Dr Zulfiqar Shaikh, a pediatrician, informed that Rotavirus diarrhea was not well understood in the ancient world, probably because its symptoms are primarily systemic and non-specific, rather than just diarrhea.…

APP Rawalpindi: The residents of different areas of Rawalpindi have urged the district administration to shuffle makeshift animal hide godowns from housing areas as they were spoiling the environment. Talking to APP, Ziarat Khan, a…

APP Rawalpindi: The citizens have been advised to adopt all possible precautionary measures to protect themselves from the Congo virus during Eid ul Azha.  In response, the Livestock Department, under the directives of Commissioner…

APP Karachi: Sindh Health Department clarifying media reports about the death of children due to measles on Thursday said that two out of 11 reported deaths were caused by measles while the remaining nine children lost their lives due to…

News Desk  Islamabad: The country's average life expectancy experienced a slight decline, dropping to 72.3 years in 2023 from 72.4 years recorded in 2022. Experts attribute this decline mainly to an increase in infectious and…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Polio scars are etched with lifelong agony, but in Pakistan, where lives are meant to be safeguarded, the polio campaign is met with resistance and tragedy. This week-long initiative began disastrously when…

News Desk United Nations: Pakistan has urged the international community to provide adequate funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assist developing countries in improving their health infrastructures, which are under severe…

Asmat Shah Garwaki Peshawar: As many as 5.4 million school-aged children in Pakistan would be obese by 2030 if the unchecked sale and manufacturing of unsafe food, including chips and snacks, continued at such a high rate in markets,…

News Desk Rawalpindi: Rawalpindi’s dengue total tally has reached 1,955 positive cases, with the arrival of 19 more patients during the last 24 hours. District Coordinator of Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC) Dr Sajjad Mehmood…