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 …
According to a report compiled by the Disease Surveillance System of the Punjab Information Technology Board and issued on Thursday, the number of measles cases in Punjab has reached 7,794 since January this year. Five districts — Lahore, Gujranwala, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rawalpindi — have been declared high …
Measles outbreak in a nomad family has claimed five lives including a teenage girl and four minor girls in Adda Bhoondi area near Rahim Yar Khan. Six more children are said to have been suffering high fever due to the contagion. The dead are identified as two and half-year-old Rashida, …
Over 6,000 cases of measles were reported in four months in different parts of Punjab, mostly in Lahore, during the current surveillance drive, said Director Health Services for EPI Punjab, Dr Tanveer Ahmed. Sixty to seventy patients of measles are being reported every day in different parts of the province, …
Over 6,000 cases of measles were reported in four months in different parts of Punjab, mostly in Lahore, during the current surveillance drive. This was stated by Director Health Services for EPI Punjab, Dr Tanveer Ahmed while talking to APP here on Sunday. Sixty to 70 patients of measles are …
ALLAHABAD: With the objective of checking infant mortality rate (IMR), state health authorities have come up the Khasra Rakshak Abhiyan, a campaign to control spread of measles, as part of the national routine immunisation programme starting from April 22 in the district. All children aged from 9 months to 10 …
Study Says A Trial On Vitamin Supplementation Among Preschoolers Did Not Substantiate Earlier Claim Of 30% Reduction Two so-called magic bullets of the international health community’s armoury — pre-school vitamin A supplementation, assumed to reduce child mortality by a quarter and intestinal deworming, assumed to improve child nutrition, growth, and …
Measles spread has been reached alarming proportions in and around the city as 12 children including a boy and his sister were admitted to hospital here the other day. Measles which is a viral disease has been spreading in the city mainly due to the ignorance of the District Health …
As of the end of February, 151 cases of Measles had been confirmed in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, with two deaths caused by the highly contagious disease, Yunnan.cn, an official news portal in the province, reported on Tuesday. To contain the spread of the disease, Kunming on Wednesday will …
Justice Ijazul Ahsan of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought a detailed report from the health secretary and the Punjab Drug Regulatory Authority on a petition seeking judicial inquiry into the deaths of children due to measles and to fix responsibility on government functionaries in failing to control the …
Holy Family Hospital (HFH) Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Javed Hayat said on Wednesday that 21 patients suffering from measles had been admitted to the hospital this year. “Thirteen patients have been discharged after recovering from the disease and eight are still under treatment,” said Dr Javed Hayat. He also said …
The Sindh health department in its preliminary report on measles outbreak has revealed that a total of 88 children have died of the disease in Sindh over the past five weeks. The report was submitted to Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed by Dr Ashfaque Memon, former additional health secretary (technical) …
Increasing marine pollution, residents’ inaccessibility to potable water and the poverty have made the people of coastal areas vulnerable to face diseases, especially measles. In a recent research by the activists of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) in Ibrahim Hydri, the largest fishermen locality, it was learned that a large number …
BHOPAL: Irrespective of their immunisation status, about one lakh children under age of 10 in Bhopal would be immunized against measles, according to health officials. A month-long measles vaccination campaign would begin on Friday. According to annual health survey (AHS) 2011, measles vaccine coverage in Bhopal is about 70%. Some …
At least four children have died of measles in Nana Sahb Ziarat and Ustaranabad area of Loralai district. Health Department sources said on Tuesday that four children including a minor girl died of measles because they could not be immunized against the fatal disease that caused their death in Tareenabad …
Forty-seven children have died of measles and pneumonia in Kohistan area of Upper Dir district since Jan 15, according to district health officer Dr Abdul Wakeel. Mr Wakeel told Dawn on Monday that the deaths from measles and pneumonia were reported in Thal, Kumrat and Lamoti areas, which were mostly …
The menace of measles continued to haunt Lahorites with an increase as 13 more patients were admitted to different hospitals in the City on Sunday, taking the overall tally till today to 160. Spokesman of Health Department Punjab has exhorted parents to ensure vaccination of children up to the age …
GUJRANWALA - At least 143 cases of measles have been reported across Gujranwala Division in the new year do far, The Nation has learnt. As per detail, 143 cases of infectious viral disease measles have been reported since the start of 2013 across the division out of which 78 are …
SHIKARPUR, Jan 24: At least 14 more children have died of measles over the past four days in different urban and rural areas of Shikarpur district, taking the measles toll within the past seven days to 26. As many as a dozen children fell prey to measles on Friday and …
Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani admitted on the floor of the Senate on Thursday that poor handling of measles’ cases had resulted in the recent outbreak of the disease and death of 232 children in 11 districts of Sindh. Replying to a call-attention notice from Syed …
More than 100 children have died of measles in Pakistan this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday, calling it “an alarming outbreak”. “Some 103 Pakistani children have died from January 1-19 this year because of the post-measles complications such as pneumonia, post-measles encephalitis and diarrhoea,” WHO spokeswoman Maryam …
