Tag: malnutrition
Govt committed to lowering malnutrition: Khawaja Imran Nazir
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Health (P&SH) Khawaja Imran Nazir said on Wednesday that the provincial government was committed to drastically lowering the...
At least six infants die due to infections, malnutrition in Thar
THARPARKAR: As many as six infants lost their lives over the last 24 hours in Sindh's Tharparker district owing to the viral infections and...
Seven infants die in Tharparkar due to infections, malnutrition
THARPARKAR: As many as seven children died in Tharparkar district on Saturday due to malnutrition and various viral infections, sources in Mithi Civil Hospital...
Efforts should be accelerated to address malnutrition: experts
FAISALABAD: Nutrition experts on Sunday called for accelerating efforts to address the issue of malnutrition in the country.
They were addressing at the launching of...
6 per cent children are malnourished in Pakistan: report
ISLAMABAD: The Global Nutrition Report 2017 showed that 6 per cent children in Pakistan are stunted and facing obesity due to the consumption of...
Six more children die of malnutrition in Tharparkar
THARPARKAR: Six more children died of malnutrition in Tharparkar within 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 516 during the current year.
According to details,...
Infant dies of malnutrition in Mithi, pushes toll to 24
MITHI: A child died at the Civil Hospital in Mithi on Saturday, pushing the death toll of children from malnutrition this month in Sindh’s desert...
In Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, children die of hunger
Hamouria: One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under the translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege...
WFP signs programme to prevent stunting among children in Pishin
QUETTA: The World Food Program (WFP) has signed a programme with the planning and development department of Balochistan government to prevent stunting among children in...
Sindh fails to control children’s chronic malnutrition: WB report
Province allocated less than 10 per cent of total health budget to be spent on nutrition
LAHORE: More than 60 per cent of children in...
Nutrition is key to achieving SDGs; govt striving for healthy Pakistan:...
Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, while talking to the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator Gerda Verburg here Monday, said that the...
Waterborne diseases, malnutrition claim six more lives in Thar
THARPARKER: At least six more infants died in Tharparker over the weekend due to various waterborne diseases and malnutrition, raising the death toll in...
Effective steps are needed to redress the malnutrition issue
It is necessary for the concerned government departments to make coordinated efforts at all levels to redress malnutrition issue for the protection of the...
Nine more infants die of malnutrition in Thar
At least nine more children died of malnutrition and outbreak of various diseases in Tharparkar district of Sindh province during the past two days,...
