PM orders synergising routine immunisation, anti-polio campaigns
- 03-Dec-2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered to synergise the routine immunisation and anti-polio campaigns in the country, ARY News reported on Friday. PM Imran Khan chaired a high-level meeting to review arrangements for the upcoming polio eradication campaign. During a briefing, the premier was apprised regarding the most vulnerable areas in terms of the […]
WHO urges polio vaccine dose cut amid global shortage
- 28-Apr-2017
GENEVA: Faced with a shortage of polio vaccine, the World Health Organisation urged countries on Friday to resort to smaller, fractional doses to ward off outbreaks of the crippling disease. “We do have a problem with the vaccine in the sense of not having enough of it,” Alejandro Cravioto, head of WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group […]
ECNEC approves various projects worth Rs52 billion
- 26-Jan-2017
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has on Wednesday approved several projects worth about 52 billion rupees in climate change, energy, health and higher education sectors. The meeting chaired by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar approved the PhD Scholarship Programme proposed by the Higher Education Commission at the cost of 18,810.916 million […]
Music therapy may help kids cope with immunization shots
- 27-Sep-2016
When little kids need to get a painful injection, music therapy can help them get through the procedure, a new study suggests.
Pakistan closer to eliminating polio: officials
- 31-May-2016
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is moving closer to eradicating polio, officials said Tuesday, with no fresh traces of the crippling childhood disease found in sewage samples taken from 40 high-risk sites across the country over April.
Health officials suspended for wasting vaccines worth $3.7 mn
- 03-Mar-2015
ISLAMABAD: Two health officials were suspended over wasting $3.7 million worth of vaccines donated by UNICEF to protect children from deadly diseases.