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Childhood obesity levels are “still much higher” than health leaders “would like” despite having “plateaued” in recent years, Public Health Jersey has said
Despite having the country’s largest budget for the biggest public healthcare network, 62 out of every 1,000 babies born alive in Punjab die before reaching their first birthday
Abuja – Every month at the Primary Health Care Centre in Ugbor, Oredo Local Government Area, Edo State, in southern Nigeria, mothers gather with their babies for routine immunization and growth monitoring services. Among them is Mrs Shegu Ritawaits who arrived one morning with her eight-month-old child expecting a routine clinic visit
Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country’s capital
In a country where a meagre 0.8% of the federal budget is allocated to health, expecting the sector to function even at a bare minimum is an ambitious assumption
Fourteen newborns were killed before dawn on Wednesday when fire tore through the nursery of the Mother and Child Health (MCH) ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad’s largest public hospital. The blaze broke out on the third floor in the early morning, reports vary on the exact minute, with the health…
During the Millennium Development Summit in 2000 the international community pledged to eliminate poverty and create a climate for sustainable development. Facilitating the attainment of this objective, eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were formulated; offering specific and measureable targets according to which policy makers appraise their development programmes. Within the context of the MDGs, maternal…
ISLAMABAD– Members of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination said on Thursday that the fire at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), which claimed the lives of 14 infants, may have been caused by a “technical fault”
Addis Ababa—Every day, governments make decisions that affect the health and well-being of millions of people, from responding to disease outbreaks and improving maternal and child health services to planning the health workforce and investing in stronger health systems. Yet these decisions are often made using information scattered across multiple systems, making it difficult to…
At around 4:30 pm, almost 10 hours after the fire that killed 14 infants, the entrance to the gynaecology ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (Pims) remained crowded. Eyewitnesses and relatives of victims had been hushed away hours ago, and the families left when the bodies were handed over. But there was an…