HYDERABAD, Jan 6: Participants of a Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) meeting on Sunday urged the government to ensure scientific treatment of wastewater being released into the Sindh waterways by establis
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
KARACHI, Jan 1: Measles cases surged in Pakistan in 2012, and hundreds of children died from the disease, an international health body said on Tuesday.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded 56.4MW Wind Power Project Jhampir will start generating electricity from next month as the implementing company has completed all necessary work in this rega
In an effort to revive the population of vultures that has sharply gone down over the past 10 to 15 years in the country, a sanctuary for the species is being established in Nagarparkar, where the
Pakistan’s recent torrential floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains in different parts of the country, killed at least 412 people and injured 1,172 others besides affecting over 8.2 million more.
Sindh is lagging behind the rest of the country in health indicators, revealed an analysis carried out by the health department for the newly launched Sindh Health Sector Strategy (2012-2020). The health department had carried out an evidence-based situational analysis from September to November 2011 for the eight-year health plan announced.
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf announced on Sunday a special package of Rs2 billion for rain-affected areas of Sindh and directed the finance ministry to immediately release the first instalment
As least forty-six people were killed in separate incidents of electrocution and structure collapse, as late monsoon rains unleashed devastation in Punjab and Sindh provinces.
