Professor Lubna Ansari Baig is the Founding Dean, APPNA Institute of Public Health at Jinnah Sindh Medical University (AIPH-JSMU) and is presently its chairperson. Professor Baig started her career with UNICEF as a field Medical Officer and then got Master of Public Health Degree from University of Oklahoma, USA. On her return to Pakistan, she joined AKU as Instructor. From 1993 to 1999, she worked at Baqai Medical College and Jinnah Medical and Dental College. In 1998, she was requested by the Federal Ministry of Health to join as Consultant for the Community Oriented Medical Education (COME) Project of World Health Organization (WHO). This was the first project in Pakistan for making innovative changes in COME curriculum for four medical colleges in the public sector.
COVID-19: Red Cross urges govt to enforce guidelines
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The Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS), Lagos branch has called on the Federal Government to enforce the guidelines and protocols of COVID-19 to mitigate the spread of the virus.
The branch Chairman, Mrs Adebola Kolawole, made the call at the side-line of the NRCS 53rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday in Lagos.
Kolawole decried the wanton violation of COVID-19 guidelines by the citizenry.
She added that those flaunting the protocols encourage the spread of the virus, particularly health workers and front liners.
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“Government should enforce the rules and guidelines of COVID-19.
Bangladesh reaffirms commitment to nuclear-free world
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Dhaka, Jan 23, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Rabab Fatima has reaffirmed Dhaka’s commitment to a nuclear-free world to the UN at celebration marking the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’ (TPNW).
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been a strong global voice and advocate for nuclear disarmament, and led efforts to be one of the first signatories of the Treaty,” she said while Bangladesh joined the international community to celebrate the treaty at a virtual event simultaneously held in New York, Geneva and Vienna on Friday, according to a press release received here today.
In a third world country like Pakistan, jails are worse than the armpit – they are dingy, grotty, squalid, overcrowded and poorly managed. One gets goosebumps and breaks into a sweat the.
Beyond the bang-bang: Reporting from the front lines of peace. This article is part of our peacebuilding coverage, reporting on how atrocities can be prevented, how societies can be made more resilient, and how peace can be sustainably built.
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At least 100,000 people have fled their homes in Central African Republic as a rebel coalition calling for the resignation of the president launches attacks around the county, throwing into question almost two years of peace efforts.
The capital city, Bangui, has come under fire and major towns are occupied by the coalition of some of CAR’s strongest rebel groups, which formed shortly before December elections won by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra but contested by the opposition.