This study aims to understand how climate-related risks and hazards are reshaping traditional avenues of job entry and employment, particularly for young people in Pakistan. This brief is aimed at policymakers,
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday signed three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with well-known corporate sector firms - Mobilink, Medentech and Unilever Pakistan - to promote health facilities in Pakistan. Speaking on the occasion, USAID, Pakistan, Director (Health, Democracy and Governance) Kathleen McDonald said, "USAID is helping Pakistani communities to have access to clean water and adopt sanitary practices that save lives.'
The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has planted 42,000 saplings during the last 20 days as part of its trees planting campaign in the city. According to a press release issued on Sunday, the members of the national and provincial assemblies also participated in the tree planting campaign.
Quaid-e-Azam International Hospital (QIH) has launched its first satellite clinic in the town. The high-tech clinic is designed to cater for the current and future needs of the patients coming to the hospital, Dr Shaukat Ali Bangash, the QIH founder, said on Sunday. He said three billion rupees had been allocated for the main hospital building, a hotel, multi-storey parking, offsite clinics in F-11 and F-8, auditorium and a mosque.
Rotary International (RI) has blamed government agencies concerned with vaccination efforts responsible for the failure to eradicate polio from the country, despite funding of $26 million in Pakistan by the agency and the United Nations to make the worldwide anti-polio drive successful, Daily Times was told on Sunday.
Contaminants in the city's water supply are a major cause of several infectious diseases, including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, polio, cryptosporidiosis, ascariasis, and schistosomiasis, Daily Times learnt from health experts on Sunday. Corroded pipelines: The experts said that human excreta had polluted the water supply in the city during the recent rains. "Corroded pipelines add to the misery of the citizens, mixing sewage and causing water-borne diseases,' they added.
Vast swathes of countryside along the banks of Sutlej River were inundated after India opened the spillway relasing large amounts of water, causing low to medium flood in the river between Ganda Singhwala and Suleimanki. A peak of 65,000 cusecs was passing through Ganda Singhwala and 68,000 cusecs through Suleimanki, Flood Forecasting Division chief Hazrat Mir told Dawn on Sunday evening. He said the river was in low flood at both the places but several villages in Kasur, Okara and Pakpattan districts had been flooded.
The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture said on Sunday that the water rotation programme being followed despite swelling Indus River, had led to complete destruction of standing sugarcane crop on thousands of acres of land in Khairpur Gambho at the tail-end of Naseer Canal. A meeting of the chamber chaired by Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah demanded supply of water to tail-end growers and regretted that the sugar mill owners had withheld tens of millions of rupees they owed to growers.
The attack of white fly in the surrounding areas of Multan is in full swing and the farmers are facing a lot of problems because of having no guidelines from the field staff of the agriculture department. Farmers, Ijaz Ahmad, Muhammad Tariq, and Zahid told Business Recorder that farmers had done a lot of sprays on the crops due to non-availability of guidance from the agriculture department after which the growth process in the plants has stopped.
For a complete eradication of foot and mouth disease in milk giving animals, the provincial ministry for livestock has proposed a global strategy, while it holds the free movement of animals in the region particularly from India and Afghanistan into Pakistan responsible for the disease. This disease to a greater extent has been controlled and affected animals have also been healed; however the herds from other neighbouring countries into Pakistan refresh its speared. Seven different diseases are common in Sindh of the same family.
The problems of fertiliser shortages have not been overcome, with small growers not being provided enough fertiliser. Small growers say that if Urea is not given to their crops, their rice, chillies, sugarcane and cotton crops would be destroyed, causing financial havoc for the growers.
