Tag: vaccination
Actor Fawad Khan rejects reports of denying polio vaccine to daughter
Award-winning Pakistani actor, model and singer Fawad Khan, along with five others, on Wednesday was booked for refusing polio vaccination drops for his children, according...
175,000 children missed out on anti-polio campaign, at risk of disability
-CM Murad makes polio vaccine mandatory in all schools, orders action against refusal
-Anti-polio immunity missed by 175,000 out of 7.3m children
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister...
Immunity vaccination can save lives
Written by Aftab Sohail Rana
KARACHI: Pakistan has one of the highest numbers of under-immunised children globally, with only 54 per cent of children fully immunised....
Smartphones help fill vaccine gaps in rural Pakistan
A project giving health workers cheap smartphones to track their progress through rural Pakistan has seen vaccination rates soar, reported UK-based publication, The Telegraph.
According...
Pakistan’s new vaccination drive, ‘final push’ against polio
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani health official says authorities have launched a week-long anti-polio campaign touted as a 'final push' against the crippling disease.
Its aim is...
Immunisation can prevent over 2m deaths in Pakistan
PPA president asks parents not to compromise on immunisation of their children
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Paediatric Association Pakistan (PPA) president Prof Dr Rai Muhammad Asghar has...
Nationwide polio vaccination drive launched
KARACHI: A nationwide polio eradication drive was launched on Monday to try to reach 38.7 million children and eradicate the paralysing and potentially deadly...
Over fifty per cent target achieved in anti-polio drive
RAWALPINDI: The five-day anti-polio campaign that started in the entire district on February 13 has achieved over 50 per cent target while the remaining...
Anti-polio drive continues in full swing in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: Health Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Muhammad Sohail Chaudhry said that the five-day anti-polio campaign, which began in all tehsils and towns of...
Two female anti-polio workers shot dead in Quetta
QUETTA: Two female members of a polio vaccination team in Quetta were shot dead on Thursday.
Police said that unidentified miscreants opened fire on the polio...
Last anti-polio vaccination of the year begins in Karachi
KARACHI: Karachi that reported two cases of polio this year marked its last anti-polio vaccination campaign of 2017 on Wednesday.
Talking to journalists, Sindh Emergency...
Anti-polio campaign launched in Karachi
KARACHI: A six-day anti-polio campaign will be launched in Karachi on Wednesday, December 20. Under the drive, 1.85 million children below five years of age will...
Over 5.7 million children to be administered anti-polio vaccine in KP
PESHAWAR: As many as 5.712 million children below the age of five years will be given oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the upcoming anti-polio...
Experts call for involvement of parents in vaccination of kids against...
KARACHI: Pakistan Pediatrics Association (PPA-Sindh) President and National Institute of Child Health (NICH) Director Professor Jamal Raza has called for active involvement of parents...
Sindh to strengthen hepatitis control programme
KARACHI: The hepatitis control programme in Sindh is further being strengthened to control the rapidly growing disease of hepatitis B and C in the...
Rabies a preventable disease, says NIH chief
ISLAMABAD: National Institute of Health (NIH) Executive Director Brigadier Dr Aamer Ikram said that rabies is a preventable disease which is usually transmitted to humans...
PACP provides hepatitis screening, vaccination to Daanish schools
The Punjab AIDS Control Programme (PACP) is providing free hepatitis B and C screening, testing and hepatitis B vaccination to staff and school children...
