The notice was taken by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on a news report published in a section of the media that more than 11,000 ailing children had been brought to six health facilities in Sindh's Mithi district for treatment since the beginning of this year and at least five infants had died due to malnutrition and diseases at the Civil Hospital...
DHO Khan was of the opinion that media is misreporting the number of...
MITHI: Seven more infants died from complications caused by malnutrition over the past three days in government hospitals of Thar, raising the death toll to 137 since January this year, according to sources...
The parents of the ailing children complained about lack of facilities in hospitals and indifferent attitude of doctors and paramedics and alleged that they were being forced by the hospital managements to take their seriously...
MITHI: At least four more infants lost their lives in the drought-hit Thar desert on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 45 in only 12 days, due to the outbreak of waterborne diseases and malnutrition among residents...
Both government and private hospitals across Thar have reported more than 150 children who have been admitted for treatment of various illnesses...
ISLAMABAD: Pilgrims will pay between Rs10,290 and Rs11,190 for infants accompanying them during Haj this year under the government scheme...
According to sources in the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony, parents travelling from the southern region will pay Rs10,290 for each infant and those travelling from the northern region will pay Rs11,190...
BAHAWALPUR: A team probing into deaths of two infants in Jhandi union council of Khairpur Tamewali tehsil found no evidence of anti-polio vaccine administered to the babies being expired and causing the tragic incident on Oct 9...
The team prepared the report after undertaking a two-day visit to the Jhandi UC and submitted it to the Punjab government for forwarding it to the chief minister...
ISLAMABAD: Taking suo motu notice of the death of over 100 infants in drought-hit Thar, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has directed the Sindh chief secretary to submit a report by Feb 3...
“I used to go out with friends at first, but as he is growing up, it is becoming difficult for my wife to handle him...
Two thirds of the world’s neonatal deaths occur in just 10 countries, mostly in Asia, and Pakistan is number three among these countries with an estimated 300,000 neonatal deaths annually...
CUTTACK: Sixty-one infants have died at an Indian children’s hospital in just two weeks, sparking protests and forcing the state government to launch an investigation...
“Infants have died but the chief minister has yet to visit the hospital,” said Samir Mohanty, one of the BJP protesters...
ISLAMABAD: Dr Nazia Zia, who recently arrived from USA, was surprised when an official at a National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) centre asked her to wake her seven-week-old daughter and keep her eyes open for the camera to get a Nicop...
The National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (Nicop) is a registration document issued to a Pakistani citizen...
At least nine more infants died due to malnutrition and outbreak of the various diseases in Thar during that last two days, raising the toll to 476 this year...
The health officials, however, are not sure about more than 690 children who were refered to hospitals in Hyderabad and Karachi that whether they died or survived...
At least five infants lost their lives due to malnutrition and diseases at Civil Hospital Mithi — bringing this year's toll of infant deaths in Sindh's Thar desert to 64...
Talking to Dawn, the district health officer in Mithi informed that more than 11 thousand ailing children were brought to six different health facilities in the district for treatment since the beginning of this year...
LAHORE: Golfers held a competition at a club here on Sunday to raise funds for children born with the congenital heart disease (CHD)...
About 60,000 children in Pakistan – one in 100 infants – are born with CHD every year, sometimes referred to as a hole in the heart...
At least six more infants died in Tharparker over the weekend due to various waterborne diseases and malnutrition, raising the death toll in the desert region to 72 since January this year, a district official told Dawn...
There were 290,393 deaths of infants below the age of one month, she added...
Some of the reasons for such deaths were that 40pc of the children were born prematurely, 21pc died of asphyxia during birth and 18pc died of infections...
At least eight infants reportedly died of malnutrition and water-borne diseases in the desert region of Mithi during the past two days, parents of the deceased children told Dawn...
The infants died at Mithi's Civil Hospital where they were brought from remote villages for treatment...