Deadly epidemic measles death toll across the country climbed to 415 as more children died of measles on Wednesday.

Six more children died of measles in different villages of Dadu district on Tuesday as people continued to wait for the health department’s vaccination teams, supposed to be sent to the areas affec

Death toll due to measles epidemic across the country has climbed to 413 as eight more children affected of the disease expired on Tuesday in Kadhkot area of Sindh.

Lives of five more children living in the Kachho belt of Dadu district’s Johi taluka were lost to the measles outbreak on Sunday.

Pakistan Medical Association has warned the government that the measles is turning into an epidemic that may cause huge fatality in Sindh.

At least four more children died of measles here on Thursday. The death toll now has risen to 29 in the city and its surroundings in the last 40 days.

KARACHI – The World Health Organisation has announced that it is starting a large measles vaccination campaign targeting 2.9 million children in eight districts of Sindh as an emergency response to

The district administration of Sukkur released a special fund of Rs3.5 million for providing meals and medicines to about 200 children who contracted measles in the past 35 days.

SUKKUR Measles claimed the lives of five more children in different villages of Sindh on Wednesday.

Measles epidemic continued to take lives of children in interior Sindh, as 11 more children died on Wednesday in Shikarpur and other areas of the province.