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APP Peshawar: Nearly 91,000 children under the age of five in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa missed polio doses during the seven-day police immunisation blitz that began on January 16 in the province, according to a health department report. The…

News Desk Quetta: A police head constable was shot dead when unidentified gunmen attacked a team administering polio drops to children under age five in the Killi Tarata area of Pashin district of Balochistan province, district sources…

Peshawar: The Health Department on Monday, 3rd of October,  announced the launching of a 15-day anti-typhoid campaign across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including in the provincial metropolis The anti-typhoid campaign started with the technical…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: World Food Programs (WFPs) Special Advisor on Mother and Child Nutrition and Jordanian Princess Sarah Zeid has termed Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) as a role model for other countries running social…

News Desk UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a historic resolution Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. The resolution, based on a similar text…

Shazia Mehboob Iislamabad: With more than 15 million people with hepatitis B and C, Pakistan is observing World Hepatitis Day today, July 28, with the commitment to eliminate chronic disease from the country by 2030. The positivity…

News Desk QUETTA: Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala of World Health Organization (WHO)’s head in Pakistan, handed over medicines and other equipment worth over 800 million dollars to the health department of the Balochistan government for…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Physical and mental health of people is of central importance for the progress, development, and prosperity of Pakistan. It goes without saying that unhealthy people are generally unable to contribute fully to…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: The physical and mental health of people is of central importance for the progress, development, and prosperity of Pakistan. Unhealthy people are generally unable to contribute fully to nation-building. It is for this…

Our correspondent Health experts are in consensus that autism is the fastest-growing disability- measures are required to save children. According to the Pakistan Autism Society, around 40,000 children have been diagnosed with autism…