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World Immunisation Week celebrated at RMU
Islamabad
Rawalpindi : World Immunisation Week was celebrated at Rawalpindi Medical University (RMU), says a press release.
Every year this week is celebrated in the last week of April. Pakistan Pediatric Association, Federal Branch and Rawalpindi Medical University jointly conducted various activities for the awareness of immunisation in children. Various webinars and sessions with students, parents and their children along-with doctors and paramedical staff were conducted.
Dr. Rai Asghar, who is Professor of Pediatrics and also President PPA Federal Branch, said that we can save lives of millions of children by doing in time immunisation. He said that in EPI programme vaccination is being given against 12 diseases including tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, Hib, pneumonia, rotavirus, typhoid and measles. Vaccination against rubella has also been approved. EPI vaccines are safe and very effective. Cold ch
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Sun 10th January 2021 | 06:30 PM
KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Jan, 2021 ) :The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for polio in Sindh will launch a province-wide polio campaign fromJanuary 11 to 17, as a part of the national immunization days, to give oralPolio drops to around nine million children of under 5-year across the province.
This will be the first campaign of 2021 in which anti-polio drops will be given to approximately nine million children under five years of age across the 29 districts of Sindh, said a spokesperson of the EOC Sindh on Sunday.
Out of these nine million children, more than two million children from 6 to 59 months of age reside in Karachi will also be provided vitamin A drops to further boost immunity.
Three Karachi doctors die of COVID-19
More than 11,000 health workers affected in Pakistan SAMAA | Health - Posted: Dec 11, 2020 | Last Updated: 4 months ago SAMAA | Health Posted: Dec 11, 2020 | Last Updated: 4 months ago
From left to right: Dr Waseem ud Din, Dr Tahir Ameen Choudry and Dr Abdul Sattar Korai. Photo: SAMAA Digital
Three senior doctors in Karachi have died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, it was reported on Friday. The number of doctors in the province who succumbed to the virus has reached 45.
One of the doctors was Dr Tahir Amin Chaudhry, a retired chief anaesthetist at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital, confirmed JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali.