Around one-third of children in the country die of malnutrition which can be prevented easily by creating awareness about breastfeeding, said the speakers at the national launching of One Million Campaign, a global web-based initiative to support women to breastfeed, in the city yesterday.

The campaign was launched with the slogan 'No more milk scandals like the one with melamine'.

More than 5,500 tsunami affected orphaned children still remain in shelters around the country, the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) revealed yesterday adding that it would launch a programme to seek guardians for these children.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mehmood has said that substandard drugs at the camps of internally displaced persons (IDPs) may add to the sufferings of ailing individuals, and urged the authorities to intensify inspection of drugs being distributed at these camps.

Speakers at a roundtable on Thursday urged all to work from their respective positions to save the children from the adverse impact of global climate change.

They said necessary initiatives should be taken to tackle the threat of global climate change to safeguard our environment. Otherwise, the country would face many difficulties including health problems.

Water Aid here at the Ministry Thursday.

After a year of obfuscation, the authorities on Thursday released the first official tally of student deaths from the earthquake last May, saying that 5,335 children either were dead or remained missing. An additional 546 were left disabled, they said.

China on Thursday put the official number of dead and missing schoolchildren from last year's devastating Sichuan earthquake at 5,335, far lower than the number compiled from news reports at the time.

The number was announced by Tu Wentao, the province's education department head, at a news conference in the provincial capital Chengdu, the official Xinhua news agency said.

President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Excessive use of pesticides on farmlands in two villages of Dhamrai upazila caused death of at least three children last month.

It also killed a number of calves, dogs and fowls.

Besides, 13 more children, all aged below seven, were hospitalised, while some farmers fell sick during the same period.

The Sindh government plans to open 1,000 private schools in the first phase of a project it claims is designed to provide quality education to children in marginalised parts of the province.