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More than 100 children have died of measles in Pakistan this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, calling it "an alarming outbreak." "Some 103 Pakistani children have died from Jan 1 to Jan 19 this year because of the post-measles complications such as pneumonia, post-measles encephalitis and diarrhoea," …
The year 2013 bodes ill for Pakistan as far as measles is concerned as the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported 94 measles outbreaks throughout the country in the first three weeks of January alone. The WHO report has described the situation in Pakistan as alarming due to a steady …
Four children died and scores of others were hospitalised on Tuesday due to outbreak of measles in South Waziristan tribal region. Dr Ali Mohammad at Miramshah hospital confirmed that four children had died of measles, adding about 10 affected children were being brought to hospital every day from far flung …
Chief Minister’s Special Assistant on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique said on Monday seven children had died of measles while 1,476 cases of the disease had surfaced so far in the province in January. Talking to the media after a meeting held to review the measles situation in the province, he …
The measles death toll has reached over 460 in the province, as four more children died in Kamber-Shahdadkot and Jacobabad districts within 24 hours. According to reports, two sisters’ 71-year old Humera and Sumera (3) daughter of Ali Gohar Lohar died due to measles, while Kainat resident of Jan Mohammed …
Around 13,00 cases of measles have been reported in different parts of Punjab, mostly in Lahore, during the current surveillance drive. However, Director Health Services for EPI Punjab Dr Tanveer Ahmad said that “only” three deaths were reported due to measles – one in Gujranwala and two in Rajanpur. On …
Two more children died of measles at Tangwani near here on Sunday. The deceased were identified as two years old Shahid and five years old Jameel. Citizens have expressed serious concern on continued measles deaths and demanded of the government to control the epidemic. Poisonous meal faints 50 workers: At …
Nine children died of measles in Jacobabad, Ghotki and Kandhkot-Kashmore districts during the last 24 hours, reports received here on Sunday evening said. The death of four-year-old Fida Hussain Bhatti and two-year-old Faiza Bhatti was reported from Baloch Colony; three-year-old Amna Lashari and two-year-old Ahmed Ali Lashari died in Darya …
With no effective check on measles outbreak in sight, Sindh saw deaths of nine more children in Dadu, Jacobabad and Shaheed Benazirabad districts on Friday. Five of the fresh deaths were reported from two villages of Mahar taluka, bringing the measles toll in Dadu district within the last 30 days …
Families say four children have died of measles in Basti Pachaar of Union Council Bait Wasawa Shumali. They say 20 other children of the village are also suffering from measles. The deadly epidemic has claimed more than 300 children’s lives in Sindh. The measles victims of Layyah are three-year-old Khizar …
Deadly epidemic measles death toll across the country climbed to 415 as more children died of measles on Wednesday. According to details, two children hailing from Shikarpur and Khanpur affected of measles including seven-year-old girl, Khairan and a two-year-old boy, Jaffar, expired. The death toll in Shikarpur and adjoining areas …
Death toll due to measles epidemic across the country has climbed to 413 as eight more children affected of the disease expired on Tuesday in Kadhkot area of Sindh. According to details, despite tall claims of the provincial and health authorities, measles which broke out from different districts of Sindh …
Six more children died of measles in different villages of Dadu district on Tuesday as people continued to wait for the health department’s vaccination teams, supposed to be sent to the areas affected by the outbreak, for a couple of months. The new victims have been identified as three-year-old Munir …
Lives of five more children living in the Kachho belt of Dadu district’s Johi taluka were lost to the measles outbreak on Sunday. Over the past week, 14 children died from measles in across Dadu district. Seven children died in Simm village, two in Meer Mohammad village, two in Heero …
At least four more children died of measles here on Thursday. The death toll now has risen to 29 in the city and its surroundings in the last 40 days. In Madaiji area, two children, Zaheer Ahmed and Abdul Rehman, died of the disease. Two minor girls, Shumaila, 03, and …
Pakistan Medical Association has warned the government that the measles is turning into an epidemic that may cause huge fatality in Sindh. A preventable disease like measles has taken hundreds of lives of innocent children. The disease that has devoured more than 200 children in the interior is moving towards …
KARACHI – The World Health Organisation has announced that it is starting a large measles vaccination campaign targeting 2.9 million children in eight districts of Sindh as an emergency response to the outbreak in the province. Figures collected from various official sources and surveys provide evidence of the current outbreak …
The district administration of Sukkur released a special fund of Rs3.5 million for providing meals and medicines to about 200 children who contracted measles in the past 35 days. The children are under treatment at the Civil Hospital Sukkur, Red Crescent Hospital Sukkur and Sukkur Hospital. Speaking to journalists on …
Measles epidemic continued to take lives of children in interior Sindh, as 11 more children died on Wednesday in Shikarpur and other areas of the province. According to details, authorities of Sindh Health Department have failed to control the epidemic and as a result, 210 children have died up till …
SUKKUR Measles claimed the lives of five more children in different villages of Sindh on Wednesday. According to sources, four-year-old boy Junaid died of measles in Banho Khushak village near Mirpur Mathelo and two-year-old girl Shani Shar in Hayat Mohammad Shar village near Daharki in Ghotki district. In Sukkur district, …
