Tag: Malaria

risks, building resilience and accelerating research, there is every reason to dream of a malaria-free future”. Lifesaving bednets   In 2020, more insecticide treated bednets (ITNs) – the primary defense in most malaria-endemic countries – were distributed than in any year on record.   And distributions in 2021 were strong overall, ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's health ministry on Tuesday approved the purchase of over 6 million mosquito nets from India, as the country scrambles to contain the spread of malaria and other vector-borne diseases due to the unprecedented floods, according to a media report on Tuesday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday warned of 2.7 million malaria cases in flood-hit Pakistan in 32 districts by January 2023. The organization urged international community "do a lot more" for flood-hit Pakistan. Cholera, measles and dengue outbreaks are among other diseases, reported Geo News. ...

ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday warned of 2.7 million malaria cases in flood-hit Pakistan in 32 districts by January 2023. The organization urged international community "do a lot more" for flood-hit Pakistan. Cholera, measles and dengue outbreaks are among other diseases, reported Geo News. Declaring Pakistan ...

KARACHI: The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people she had met during visits to flood-hit areas this week would "not make it" if more aid did not arrive. ...

Pakistan desperately needs help after more people died of water-borne diseases due to catastrophic floods that had submerged a third of the South Asian country. "We need help. We need food for children and medicines," Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General ...

Floodwaters spread over hundreds of kilometres have started to recede. But it may take six months, as diseases like malaria, dengue fever, skin and eye infections, and acute diarrhoea proliferate. Source link

KARACHI — Pakistani health officials are warning of a looming health crisis in the country after devastating recent floods.Thirty-three million people have been affected by the flooding, which has left nearly 1,500 dead since the middle of June.As rescue and evacuation efforts continue in parts of the country, health ...

Waheed Arian spent the first five years of his life hiding in cellars from rockets and bombs. Arian, an emergency doctor with the UK's National Health Service, was born in Kabul in the 1980s in the midst of the Soviet-Afghan war. Life wasn't easy: His family did not have enough food ...

A Union Health Ministry statement pegged the total number of dengue cases at 116,991 across the country. (File/PTI)The Union Health Ministry has rushed high-level expert teams to nine states and Union Territories with a high dengue caseload, the government announced today. The expert teams will assist the state and ...