This annual report of WHO’s work between July 2019 and June 2020, was finalized four months after the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in the WHO African Region. Over the past year, WHO country offices, emergency hubs, inter country support teams and the Regional Office for Africa, with the support of …
KARACHI, Jan 1: Measles cases surged in Pakistan in 2012, and hundreds of children died from the disease, an international health body said on Tuesday. In recent days, government officials said they has launched an immunisation campaign to reach children in the worst-hit areas. But the country still struggles with …
At least 30 children have died due to measles outbreak only in Larkana but Secretary Health Aftab Ahmed Khatri could not confirm the details about the death toll in Sindh. Seven hundred and thirty-one to 2,000 children have been identified as suffering from measles and other deadly diseases only in …
More than 300 children died of measles last year as a result of three consecutive years of flooding, officials said on Tuesday. The United Nations’ World Health Organisation (WHO) stated, 306 children died of the highly infectious disease last year, 210 of them in Sindh, where the worst floods occurred …
The flood affected districts, where total deaths of children attributed to the suspected measles are 210 since January 2012.The World Health Organisation on Tuesday confirmed 210 deaths of children reported due to measles in Sindh this year, where most of the affected children died due to post measles complications such …
Months after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called malnourishment among children a national shame, the Union Ministry of Women & Child Development (WCD) has now written to the Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories asking them to get “serious about fighting malnourishment especially among the children and women”. WCD …
Seminar for health care providers today The UNICEF in association with the Amala Institute of Medical Science will implement a model community action programme at Adattu panchayat in the district to improve child health. Millions of children die from preventable causes before reaching their fifth birthday, many of them during …
For reducing morbidity, mortality and disabilities from the six serious but preventable diseases—that is, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis and measles—the government of India initiated Expanded Programme on Immunisation by making free vaccination services easily available to all eligible children. Despite considerable gains in immunisation coverage, a large chunk of …
A measles outbreak has killed eight children and afflicting over a dozen in different areas of Bajaur Agency over the last few days. Locals told Dawn on Thursday that children in far-flung villages of Utmankhel and Barang tehsils were the worst hit by measles. Hazrat Gul, a Uthmankhel resident, said …
NEW DELHI: India will for the first time introduce a vaccine against Rubella - a viral disease that infects pregnant women and leads to babies being born with cardiac, cerebral, ophthalmic and auditory defects. The Union health ministry so far believed that the disease, also called German Measles, did not …
RAYAGADA: Eight children have died in the last 10 days and as many as 30 are suffering from measles in the remote and inaccessible Silapas and Rayalghat villages under Jogipaitunga panchayat of Kashipur block. While one child died on Friday, another death was reported on Sunday. Kashipur PHC in-charge Rajendra …
New Delhi: The country’s first integrated vaccine centre (IVC) — a single site that will produce six important vaccines administered to Indian children — has crossed the final hurdle. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the Union health ministry’s Rs 594-crore park proposal. Spread over 100 …
“Delayed implementation of accelerated disease control in India” has led the country to account for “47 per cent of estimated measles mortality in 2010” stated a paper published today (April 24) in The Lancet . At 36 per cent, even the World Health Organisation (WHO) African region accounted for lesser …
With 65,500 Casualties In 2010, India’s Record Is Poorer Than Africa’s, Says WHO-Spearheaded Study. Nearly half of all deaths due to measles globally occurred in India in 2010. While mortality due to measles dipped from 5.35 lakh in 2000 to 1.39 lakh globally in 2010, India recorded 47% of those …
“Nearly 9.7 million children in the South-East Asian region still do not get the most basic of vaccines like the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine. Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Growing opportunities through new funding as well as research and development initiatives should not go …
As both a doctor and a public health professional, I am transfixed by one compelling question: Why are public health issues and debates so often limited to just doctors and those with abbreviations like MBBS, MD, MS or MPH added to their names? Does the ambit of health not extend …
The success of smallpox eradication in the mid-1970s drew attention to the immunization programme in India. The Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), developed for immunizing children during the first year of life was launched in 1978 mainly in the urban areas. Through the subsequent years, more vaccines were included in …
THE 1993 World Development Report (WDR) was subtitled ‘Investing in Health’ and advanced the argument that better health outcomes facilitate economic development.1 Even if one contests the direction of causation, correlation between better health outcomes and higher levels of economic development is not in doubt.
After registering a zero-polio period in the last one year, India will now be aiming at eradicating measles, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Sunday. "India still accounts for two-thirds of measles deaths across the world. We have to address all concerns associated with the measles now," Azad …
Dibrugarh: District Media expert Rituraj Borthakur said that a measles catch-up programme will soon be started in Dibrugarh district by March. Children from 9 months to 10 years of age will be administrated the doses of measles vaccine as a special drive. While addressing at the campaign on Health and …
Bhopal : In ongoing round of measles immunization in six districts of Ujjain Division which started on December 12, 2011, more then five lakh children have been vaccinated till date. Target is to reach out to 18 lakh children in the division. This is a three week campaign which targets …
