The Child Rights Movement (CRM) - a coalition of 150 NGOs in Pakistan- hold a protest in front of Islamabad Press Club and demanded the federal and provincial governments to take notice of the increasing numbers of deaths of child domestic workers in the country and ban the slavery type occupation immediately. Other coalitions like [...]
Three low cost interventions of oral rehydration, breastfeeding and community case management can save the lives of thousands of children under-five suffering from pneumonia and diarrhoea. This was disclosed by speakers at the seminar ‘Diarrhoea and Pneumonia: Global Action Plan and Implications for Pakistan’ held at Aga Khan University. The event was held to locally [...]
The Department of Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK had signed contracts worth Rupees 481 million for construction of 10 Regional Blood Centres (RBCs) with the support of EPOS. The state of the art new 10 Regional Blood Centres will be constructed at Peshawar, Multan, Bahawalpur, Karachi, Jamshoro, Nawabshah, Sukkur, Quetta, Muzaffarabad [...]
Trust for Vaccines & Immunization (TVI) in collaboration with Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Sindh and International Vaccine Institute (IVI) SeoulKorea organized a Typhoid Consultation Meeting at a local hotel in Karachi. The objective of the Meeting was to bring together government stakeholders, policy decision makers, donor agencies and non-governmental institutions to discuss typhoid control [...]
Prominent consultant paediatricians have blamed internal politics in the provincial immunisation programme, mismanagement at district level, devolution of health department, neglect of routine immunisation and lack of awareness among parents regarding routine immunisation as basic causes behind the outbreak of measles in Sindh and the resulting deaths. They called for immediate strengthening of routine immunisation [...]
In the wake of deadly measles outbreak, Sindh being the hardest hit province, a four-member team from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University (AKU), rushed to the measles affected areas in Sukkur, Ghotki and Khairpur districts, and assisted the local administration. The team led by the paediatrician, Dr Ali Faisal Saleem, [...]
The Pakistan Medical Association in collaboration with the Women’s Action Forum, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Reproductive Health Network, Aurat Foundation, People’s Health Movement and Shirkat Gah organised a dialogue on “Health of People: Political Parties & Sindh Elections 2013” at a local hotel in Karachi. The main purpose behind the dialogue was [...]
The Fourth Meeting of National Steering Committee (NSC) on Safe Blood Transfusion Project to guide and facilitate reforms in the Blood Transfusion Services of Pakistan was held at National Blood Transfusion Programme (NBTP) office, Islamabad. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Hasan Abbas Zaheer, National Programme Manager, NBTP, Ministry of Health, Islamabad. The [...]
