Tetanus vaccines must for expectant mothers, babies on August 18, 2016PESHAWAR: The health of women and their babies is at high risk fromtetanus if they are not administered Tetanus Toxide (TT) vaccines from pregnancy till childbirth, medical experts say. Tetanus is a bacterial disease of the nervous system. Muscles usuallybecome uncontrollable and rigid as a result of the disease. Symptoms of tetanus include fever, difficulty […]
Health Dept taking measures to improve general immunisation of kids on August 5, 2016PESHAWAR: Given emergence of diseases among infants, health authorities have started measures to improve general immunisation of children. Due to more focus on the anti-polio campaign, the general immunisation of children against various childhood diseases has been adversely affected. A health official, requesting anonymity, said that most of the health workers, in addition to social […]
Call to bring down child mortality rate in KP on August 5, 2016PESHAWAR: Kashmala, a 35-year-old woman from suburban area of Peshawar, fans her child at a hospital as the baby screams while they are waiting for their turn to be checked by a doctor. There are several children, with their faces covered by red spots, waiting for their turn of medical check-up in this hot weather. […]
Gunman killed by police after storming German cinema on June 24, 2016VIERNHEIM: A masked gunman barricaded himself in a German multiplex cinema with dozens of people Thursday before being killed by police on high security alert following a string of attacks around Europe, officials said. No one else was injured at the complex in the western town of Viernheim, 75 kilometres (50 miles) south of Frankfurt, […]
Terrorists kill a young govt officer in Peshawar on June 24, 2016PESHAWAR: There is a wave of doom and gloom at a yard accommodating a few charpoys as people pay condolences and pray for the soul of a young provincial government officer who lost his life to terrorists Wednesday night. Two elder brothers of the deceased, Nawab Khan Safi, were consoled by the visitors who arrive […]
The resilience of fearless France on January 15, 2015Last week’s attack on France has sent shockwaves through the nation and the entire world, as terrorists murdered 17 people in coordinated assaults in Paris both in the offices of a satirical magazine and at a Jewish kosher supermarket. Among the dead are some of France’s top cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, which lampoons all religions […]