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MANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz parliamentary leader in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Sardar Mohammad Yousuf has said the government is...

By Dr. Laksiri Fernando US decision or Joe Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan was correct in terms of ‘original sin’ and the socio-political, and cultural contradictions, created during the ‘colonial occupation’ since 2001. However the way they are withdrawing creates the impression that the US and other Western allies are in a terrible mess. Without […]

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The first case of the Delta variant of the new coronavirus, originally detected in India, has been confirmed in the city of São Paulo. According to the city government, a 45-year-old man tested positive for the variant and is under monitoring. The city management said three other people in the family (wife, stepson, and son) are being followed up by the Basic Health Unit (BHU) of the region, which was not informed. "Since April, in partnership with the state government...

Students of a state-run primary school in Lesva village pose with school bags carrying stationery gifted by a team of health practitioners from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. — Dawn MUZAFFARABAD: A seven-member team of leading health practitioners from neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, assisted by 10 medics, participated in a free medical camp in Neelum valley on Sunday and examined around 1,000 patients from different age groups. The camp was established in the Basic Health Unit (BHU) of Bata village, u...

MANSEHRA: Two persons, including a woman, were killed and three others sustained injuries when lightning hit two houses in Torghar district, officials said on Saturday.“A woman and a boy were...

The new unit in the Park of Tribes: mobilization against abandonment / Neto Ramos/Coaib Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the pandemic. The crisis has dramatically affected the inhabitants of Park of Tribes, located in the urban zone of Manaus, and, without the support of public authorities, they decided to seek their own solu...

DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two people were killed and two others suffered injuries in an attack in the Bhand area of Suhbatpur district, Nasirabad division, on Wednesday. Police officials said a group of members of Shar community opened fire on people belonging to Domki community, resulting in the death of two people on the spot and injuries to two others. Police shifted the injured and the bodies to the Basic Health Unit in Suhbatpur. The deceased were identified as Ghulam Hussain and Allah Bukhsh. P...

Teachers and health workers strike amid back-to-school campaign in Brazil Teacher being tested for coronavirus in São Paulo state school. (Governo do Estado de São Paulo) The pandemic has resulted in a total of 242,178 recorded deaths and 10 million cases in Brazil, surpassed only by the United States. More than 300,000 new cases were recorded last week along with 7,520 deaths, the second highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a week since the start of the pandemic. Health care workers are conf...

UNHCR Operational Report - Roraima (October/December 2020) [EN/PT] Format Pricumã shelter arose from the need to improve structures for people with disabilities (PwD) or who have a serious illness. Its location is strategic because it is close to UBS (Basic Health Unit) and APC (Protection and Care Area). The shelter has structures to guarantee the mobility and autonomy of sheltered people with disabilities, such as an access ramp for the RHUs (Housing Units for Refugees) and common areas, suc...

6 ‘Ehsaas’ ‘Nashonuma’ Centres to be opened in Balochistan National January 18, 2021 Islamabad: Sitting under the umbrella initiative of ‘Ehsaas’, six ‘Nashonuma’ Centres are opening in Kalat and Zhob districts of Balochistan in the first phase of ‘Ehsaas’ ‘Nashonuma’ programme. The aim is to tackle stunting and improve the nutrition of poorest children through a combination of cash stipends, nutritional food, medical examination and training. The above information was...