Quetta: A 12 days anti typhoid vaccination campaign has been launched in Quetta, Balochistan. “In the first phase, 856,000 children aged nine to fifteen years will be vaccinated against typhoid in the 39 urban union councils of Quetta”. District Health Officer Quetta Noor Bakhsh Bizenjo said while addressing a consultation. Session organized by PHC Global […]
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Where did all our water go?
Water pollution is causing a major threat to public health. Pakistan is included among the most dangerous countries where people don’t have access to safe water. It ranks at #80 among 122 countries of the world. Most of the people still don’t even have water to drink. People are compelled to buy toxic water from […]
Emergence of World’s First Extensively Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever in Pakistan
An ongoing outbreak of world’s first extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever has been reported in Pakistan which does not respond to most of the available antibiotics. The earlier case of XDR typhoid was reported in Hyderabad in November 2016. Several cases have also been in the United Kingdom and in the United States among the people who […]