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In this file photo, a health worker gives a hepatitis vaccination to a flood affected boy at a makeshift school on higher ground in southern Sindh. AFP
KARACHI: Health experts and medical scientists have warned that the hepatitis B and C viral infections are a “pandemic within a pandemic”, which are claiming three to four times more lives in Pakistan than Covid-19. They called for immediate measures for the prevention, screening and treatment of the disease.
They were speaking at an awareness session held on Tuesday at the Karachi Press Club in collaboration with Pakistan GI and Liver Diseases Society (PGLDS) in connection with World Hepatitis Day 2021, to highlight the global burden of viral hepatitis and to call for its elimination from the world by 2030. They stressed the need to have equal focus on hepatitis B and C.
Karachi
March 2, 2021
In addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is also facing a pandemic of obesity, which has been taking more lives as compared to the coronavirus.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), over four million people are dying annually as result of being overweight or obese, top gastroenterologists said on Sunday.
“Covid-19 and obesity are two pandemics being faced by the world simultaneously, and, unfortunately, obesity is killing more people in the world as compared to the viral infectious disease,” said Prof Wasim Jafri in his state-of-the-art lecture on “Covid-19 GI and Liver Manifestation” at the 3rd Annual Virtual Conference of Pak GI and Liver Disease Society (PGLDS).