The Sindh health department in its preliminary report on measles outbreak has revealed that a total of 88 children have died of the disease in Sindh over the past five weeks.
Increasing marine pollution, residents’ inaccessibility to potable water and the poverty have made the people of coastal areas vulnerable to face diseases, especially measles.
BHOPAL: Irrespective of their immunisation status, about one lakh children under age of 10 in Bhopal would be immunized against measles, according to health officials.
Forty-seven children have died of measles and pneumonia in Kohistan area of Upper Dir district since Jan 15, according to district health officer Dr Abdul Wakeel.
The menace of measles continued to haunt Lahorites with an increase as 13 more patients were admitted to different hospitals in the City on Sunday, taking the overall tally till today to 160.
SHIKARPUR, Jan 24: At least 14 more children have died of measles over the past four days in different urban and rural areas of Shikarpur district, taking the measles toll within the past seven day
Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani admitted on the floor of the Senate on Thursday that poor handling of measles’ cases had resulted in the recent outbreak o
The year 2013 bodes ill for Pakistan as far as measles is concerned as the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported 94 measles outbreaks throughout the country in the first three weeks of Janua
