World Toilet Day on November 19, 2018 As the world celebrates World Toilet Day, sanitation crisis deepens in Sindh’s mineral rich district Sanghar. World Toilet Day is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Worldwide, 4.5 billion people live without “safely managed sanitation” and around 892 million people […]
Voting kicks off in crucial polls in Sanghar amid tight security on July 25, 2018SANGHAR: As part of general elections 2018, voting has started in Sanghar district. There are three National Assembly and six Sindh Assembly seats in the district. As per the Election Commission Pakistan (ECP) plan, polling started at 8 am on Wednesday and will go on till 6 pm. Those who will be inside the premises […]
885 Chikungunya cases reported in last 4 months on March 14, 2017KARACHI: 23 cases of Chikungunya have reported in first eleven days of March in Karachi, after which the total number of cases have became 885 since the first case was reported around four months ago in December 2016, official data reveals. However health experts suggest that the actual number of cases is much higher. “Since […]
Govt response over cancer recommendations remains zero on December 1, 2016KARACHI: Sindh government health department has failed to materialize the recommendations of Task Force on cancer treatment planning in the province. Registry for cancer patients of Sindh: Cancer is extremely deadly diseases affecting thousands of people every year, according to committee. Three months have passed since the recommendations have been provided but the Sindh health […]
25,000 LHWs urge Bilawal to help resolve their hardships on November 22, 2016KARACHI: If one can cast a brief look, it is all open like a landscape and not so complex to realize the financial woes existing in the household of a Lady Health Worker (LHW), who risks her life in harsh environment and stand firm to provide promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to the community. […]
Clifton Sewerage Pumping Station to reduce health hazards on November 19, 2016KARACHI: Clifton Sewerage Pumping Station, built at a cost of Rs590 m, was inaugurated this week, ahead of World Toilet Day today. Each year, on November 19, World Toilet Day is celebrated to raise sanitary awareness and inspire people to act against and tackle the global sanitation crisis – a topic which is often neglected […]
Doctor seeks govts help for brain aneurysm surgery on September 25, 2016KARACHI: A doctor suffering from aneurysm seeks help from federal and provincial governments for treatment from the world’s only spAecialised hospital in United States of America (USA). Dr Sardar Rathore, 39, is an anesthesiologist at Civil Hospital Karachi, and he was diagnosed with a Giant Vertebro-Basilar Junction Aneurysm in August 2015. Since expertise and treatment […]
KMC declares emergency in city on August 22, 2016KARACHI: The authorities of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) have issued Congo emergency in the city and have assigned teams to check the sacrificial animals coming from other districts of Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan for the presence of Congo virus, Daily Times learnt on Sunday. After the death of Bahawalpur’s animal trader due to Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic […]
People with wide waists more prone to getting diabetes on August 20, 2016KARACHI: Health experts have warned people with wider waistlines of having higher risk of health problems, including diabetes, than someone with a narrow waist. Less fat around the waist not only glamorize both men and women but also reduces risk of having diabetes, they opined. International and local diabetic experts expressed these views during a […]
Health alert: Biryani causing diabetes on August 19, 2016 KARACHI: In the sub-continent, rice and especially Biryani is one of the favourite dishes of the people but it was causing diabetes as it was full of carbohydrates with little protein. This was the unanimous opinion of the health experts at an awareness seminar held on Friday at the first session of the three-day […]