Tag: WHO

Former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has expressed grave concern over the travel restrictions and requested the WHO to...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistan due to the rising number of polio cases in the country. The...

The International Health Regulatory (IHR) Emergency Committee will give its final recommendations to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the next five days regarding...

Air pollution is responsible for one in eight deaths worldwide, says the WHO, and is now regarded as the biggest environmental health risk A new...

ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed his government's commitment to strengthen national efforts to eradicate polio and said the government would...

ISLAMABAD The migration of tribal people affected by the ongoing military operation may result in spreading the polio virus to other parts of the country,...

FDE DG Dr Shahnaz Riaz claims acting FDE DG not accepting her reinstatement orders Acting FDE DG Professor Akhtar Mehmood Malik says he did not...

In an “unprecedented rush”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has “quietly” sanctioned an amount of Rs 27 million to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government as “feeding charges” for 4,500 policemen deployed for protection of volunteers observing duties for health immunisation campaigns but no public announcement has been made in this regard.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that household air pollution (HAP), which is a major contributor to lower respiratory tract infections in children and...

More than a third of women worldwide are affected by physical or sexual violence, many at the hands of an intimate partner, according to...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has appealed to the country's religious scholars for their cooperation and support for a successful operation of polio eradication...

The World Health Organisation has given warning that a new strain of the coronavirus could be passed on between people in close contact. The warning...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) acting head in Pakistan, Dr Nima Saeed Abid on Thursday warned the country against a rising number of measles...

Pakistan is ranked sixth among the 22 high tuberculosis risk countries, contributing 43 percent of the disease towards the Eastern-Mediterranean region of World Health...

Several international health organizations have rejected the government report on the countrywide measles vaccination project the Extended Program on Immunization (EPI). According to sources, few...

World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Polio drive head Dr Bruce Aylward on Friday said it was crucial to push on with the fight to eradicate...

The order by the district coordination officer (DCO) for mandatory vaccination cards as a requirement for admission in schools is proving to be another...