A 30-year-old woman was gang-raped and threatened in the parking space of Baba Saheb Ambedkar (BSA) Hospital in outer Delhi’s Rohini, allegedly by a security guard and two former bouncers of the hospital early Friday morning, the police said. The two bouncers were arrested early while the security guard was caught Monday. All three had […]
Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood on Monday clarified that schools and educational institutions across Pakistan are not closing despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country. “Rumours again afloat regarding school closures. It is again clarified that educational institutions are NOT being closed,” he announced via a tweet. He stated that the government […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged masses to take precautionary measures and declared the next two months critical, as the second wave of the novel coronavirus hits the country. Addressing the Insaaf Doctors Forum convention in Lahore on Wednesday, he lauded the services of doctors and paramedics who are at the forefront in the country’s […]
The World Health Organization WHO has called for united efforts to eliminate Poliomyelitis (polio) from the surface of the earth. Addressing a seminar on ‘One Day, One Focus: Endling Polio’ at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Friday; WHO National Surveillance Coordinator for Polio Eradication Initiative Dr Shafiqur Rehman said 79 cases of polio […]
ISLAMABAD: In continuation with a series of escalating warnings, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has sounded the alarm over the average positivity ratio registering 40% higher over the last four days than what was being recorded earlier. During a morning session on Friday, officials from the NCOC — the apex body tasked with […]
Leveraging their existing expertise in telemedicine solutions. It comprises e-health clinics in low-income communities and a mobile application for the masses. Sehat Kahani has now introduced Tele-ICU technology to its platform. Together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); the Health Services Academy, and the Ministry of Health; Sehat […]
ISLAMABAD: The government is hopeful Nawaz Sharif will be back in Pakistan soon to answer for the corruption charges against him. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Shahzad Akbar said on Wednesday that the government was working with the British authorities to finalize modalities for Nawaz’s return, while Minister for Science and […]
ISLAMABAD: Warning that Pakistan is fast approaching a point where there will be “no choice” left but to impose another lockdown, the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) said that there is an urgent and immediate need to ensure the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for coronavirus prevention. The regulatory body noted that there […]
Nearly 13 percent of children between the ages of two and five years; suffered from some form of functional disability. The study revealed the National Nutrition Survey 2018 launched on Tuesday. It further pointed out that one in every eight adolescent girls and one in every five adolescent boys were underweight. Over half of the […]
Puberty may reboot the brain and behaviors and can reshape responses to stress in children who faced trauma early in life. A preschooler slips stickers under some of the colored cups on a lazy Susan tray, then gives the tray a whirl. When the spinning stops, the child must find the hidden stickers. Most kids […]
