Zulfiqar Kunbhar

KARACHI: The Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) Sindh has decided to include Rotavirus in the routine immunisation by the end of this year. With the induction of Rotavirus in EPI routine immunization, the number of diseases in the list will rise to ten. “Sindh would be the second province to introduce rotavirus after Punjab,” said […]

KARACHI: With the onset of early summer this year, bacterial conjunctivitis eye infection cases in Karachi have risen sharply during last few weeks due to lack of garbage management, air pollution and supply of contaminated water in port city, eye specialists told Daily Times. According to eye specialists the dusty envoroment is also resposble for […]

KARACHI: Shahid Hussain Narejo, a youngman from Sindh’s Khairpur district wanted to be an engineer but ended up as tailor master because of Tuberculosis (TB). The disease has not allowed him to fulfill his parents’ dreams. Now he works as tailor master in Karachi’s Gulstan-e-Johar Blaock 12. Hailing from a small village near Gambat in […]

KARACHI: Poverty, substance abuse and a lack of education were the main reasons in South Asia including Pakistan, to increase the likelihood of men being violent against women, new regional study reveilles. Violence against women is being “extremely common” with abuse being a result of jealousy, suspicion or men being offence to a woman and […]

KARACHI: As the nations were busy celebrating World Water Day on Wednesday, 12,000 public schools in Sindh were suffering from either no water or from contaminated water, as per official data released on Wednesday. This was not the only miserable condition of schools as around 21,000 schools were found without toilets facilities, one of the […]

KARACHI: Edhi Foundation on Tuesday, went for testing flight of its only aircraft in its air-ambulance service – a move to resume air ambulance service after the gap of three years time. The air ambulance service is being resumed after installing new engine in its Piper Seneca aircraft. “The test flight was conducted after gap […]

KARACHI: The authorities of National Institute for Child Health (NICH) Karachi, forcibly discharged a minor child from Ghotki district, diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) cancer, Daily Times learnt on Friday. Kamran Channa, four-year old, a cancer patient has been battling for life because since six months of ‘late referral health system’. Sarcomas are cancers that develop […]

KARACHI: Faisal Edhi, son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and in charge of Edhi Foundation has appealed federal and Sindh governments to exempt duty on newly imported ambulances to be inducted in fleet. Keeping in view of recent past wave of terrorism in the country, Edhi Foundation, has decided to increase the number of […]

KARACHI: A minor child, suffering with Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) cancer has been battling for life because since the last six months of late referral health system. Kamran Ali Channa, a five year old boy from Ghotki’s Qadirpur Gas Field area developed some mass near his right ear some six months back. With the poor public health […]

KARACHI: Five state-of-the-art mobile breast cancer screening units donated by Scotland are getting affected with rust lying under an open sky in outskirts of the city as the Sindh government is unable to make them functional, Daily Times learnt on Tuesday. Every year 40,000 women, one in every nine women, die in Pakistan due to […]