Giving birth is a battle for survival in war stricken Afghanistan She was 15 years old, heavily pregnant and had travelled eight days on the back of a donkey to reach hospital. Suffering from seizures and high blood pressure, she died soon after at the Herat Maternity Hospital in western Afghanistan, one of the thousands […]
Dec 13 2011 | Posted in
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WHO warns about Child mortality rates The World Health Organisation warned on Saturday that only a stronger political commitment to child health could prevent a dangerous rise in mortality rates at a time of global economic turmoil. WHO Director General Margaret Chan told the opening of a maternal and child health event in the Uzbek […]
Dec 1 2011 | Posted in
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New type of Antimalarial compounds discovered by scientists A team of scientists led by the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation have uncovered a family of chemical compounds that might lead to a new type of antimalarial drugs that will not only alleviate the symptoms but will also prevent the deadly disease. On November […]
Nov 18 2011 | Posted in
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The World Pneumonia Day is being observed toady to create awareness regarding this deadly disease that is affecting approximately 450 million people per year across the world and causing deaths among all age groups especially in children. In order to spread this day’s importance, Child Pneumonia, an international network of non-governmental and community-based organisation, organised […]
Nov 12 2011 | Posted in
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World Health Organization organizes a workshop on dengue The World Health Organization (WHO) has organized a workshop on dengue in Islamabad aiming to raise awareness especially in school teachers on how to create responsiveness towards dengue fever among their students. The workshop not only provided plenty of information to the teachers but it was also […]
Nov 3 2011 | Posted in
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The Plight of Baluchistan and Baluchi people Baluchistan is the most breathtakingly beautiful but equally bitter province of Pakistan. Bleeding at the hands of ruthless separatists, ethnically targeted killings and with thousands of people gone missing, life in Baluchistan is that of fear, violence and a blatant abuse of human rights. The Province which is […]
Oct 22 2011 | Posted in
Opinion,
Pakistan |
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