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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…
Malnutrition, not inflation or debt, poses greatest long-term threat to economic growth
When Pakistan’s interior minister recently declared that, whether the country admitted it or not, “this system has collapsed”, he was talking primarily about governance. But anyone looking for the most painful evidence of that collapse need not examine parliament, the civil service or the police. He could walk into an ordinary health facility