Lahore, October 29, 2024 – WaterAid Pakistan held a pivotal event today in Lahore to commemorate Global Handwashing Day, highlighting the crucial role of hand hygiene in preventing diseases and promoting public health. This year’s theme, “Why Are Clean Hands Still Important?”, underscores the ongoing necessity for effective handwashing practices across homes, schools, communities, and…
KARACHI, October 19 2024: Former First Lady of Pakistan, Begum Samina Alvi, has said that a mass-level awareness campaign at the neighbourhood level should be launched to motivate Pakistani women to regularly self-examine their chests to detect any early symptoms of breast cancer to prevent cancerous diseases in Pakistan having highest incidence rate in Asia….
SHIGAR (GILGIT-BALTISTAN), October 17 2024: Nestlé Pakistan inaugurated the Nestlé for Healthier Kids (N4HK) room at the Government Primary Boys School Shigar, making it the third N4HK room in Gilgit-Baltistan, to foster and promote nutrition awareness in the region. The N4HK program is part of Nestlé’s global nutritional awareness initiative to ensure that children understand…
Karachi, November 28, 2023 : The Aga Khan University, in partnership with the Institute for Global Health and Development at Aga Khan University (IGHD-AKU), Sustainable Solutions Development Network Pakistan (SDSN-PK), and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), hosted an annual conference titled “Climate Change, Health, and Environment: Opportunities for Change”. The event brought together visionaries…
Rawalpindi, October 19, 2023: As many as 20 more dengue cases were reported in Rawalpindi during the last 24 hours, raising the tally of confirmed cases to 2,061 in the district. District Coordinator Epidemics Prevention and Control (DCEPC), Dr Sajjad Mehmood, Thursday said that, among the new cases,14 cases had arrived from Potohar town urban…