New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Pakistan’s worsening nutrition crisis and its growing economic cost came under sharp focus at a stakeholder dialogue hosted by the Pakistan Medical Association in Lahore, where experts called for urgent reforms in the country’s dairy sector, expansion of school nutrition programmes, and stronger food safety systems to address rising malnutrition and productivity losses, according to a report in the local media.Speakers argued that despite Pakistan being among the wor…
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Islamabad, May 7 (IANS) As the polio virus continues to pose a major public health threat in Pakistan, five environmental samples collected in Karachi have recently tested positive for the virus, local media reported, citing a senior health department official. Speaking at a consultation held at Sindh on Wednesday, Pakistan’s Emergency Operations Centre Coordinator Sheheryar Memon said that five environmental samples in Karachi recently tested positive for the poliovirus, stressing the urgent ne…
Islamabad, May 6 (IANS) The rapid rise of HIV cases in Pakistan is not a slow-burning public health concern but a system failure unfolding in real time. Children and low-risk individuals are infected with HIV not due to behaviour but through the healthcare system meant to protect them, a report has detailed. Two converging failures are behind this trajectory, an editorial in Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn mentioned.”The first is the collapse of basic infection control across large parts of our he…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The US-Iran conflict has disrupted supplies of life-saving medicines and infant milk formula in Pakistan, exposing gaps in the country’s healthcare preparedness and policy framework, a report has said.According to a report published in Pakistan Observer, the supply shock has led to shortages and rising prices, causing distress among patients, particularly those dependent on critical drugs and imported nutritional products.Mohammad Atif Hanif Baloch, President of the …
Islamabad, March 26 (IANS) More than 669,000 people are affected by Tuberculosis in Pakistan which causes 51,000 deaths in a year, local media in the country reported citing the latest stats revealed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on World Tuberculosis Day. Pakistan holds a 73 per cent share of the TB burden within the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region and is the fifth most affected in the world. Each day, more than 1,800 new cases are reported in Pakistan and 140 people die from tubercul…
Islamabad, Jan 25 (IANS) As many as 3,995 registered HIV-positive children in Pakistan’s Sindh, and more than 100 new cases reported in Karachi in 2025, expose systemic failure of infection control and regulation, a report has stated. Nearly 4,000 children in Sindh living with HIV, many of them not infected at birth or through personal behaviour but in healthcare facilities where patients undergo treatment, making negligence a crime, according to a report in Pakistan’s leading daily, The Express…
Islamabad, Jan 11 (IANS) The United Doctors Forum (UDF) — an umbrella organisation of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and the Young Doctors Association (YDA) in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) — has warned the authorities of launching a protest from January 26 if their “long-pending and legitimate” demands were not agreed to, local media reported. UDF Chairman Dr Wajid Khan and General Secretary Dr Arshad Raja, who are the heads of the PMA and YDA, respectively, made the ann…