Results from a randomised controlled trial spanning over 3,300 households in rural and urban areas of Sindh have highlighted the usefulness of SMS and voice campaigns, targeted at parents and caregivers of infants, in increasing vaccine coverage in underserved areas. Sindh has one of the lowest rates of routine immunisation in Pakistan with seven out…
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Voices from the Field: Unheard Stories from Women in Pakistan — University of Central Asia org
As part of the University of Central Asia’s cooperative education programme, UCA undergraduate students, Aqila Hassanzada and Khizer Zakir, worked as Research Interns at the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) in Pakistan in July 2018. On a field visit to Sindh (Pakistan) they conducted interviews to better understand the role of RSPN in the lives…
Pakistan: Uncontrolled high blood pressure a growing threat in rural Sindh, AKU study finds —By Zulfiqar Kunbhar on Daily Times com
* Six of 10 people over 40 years of age surveyed for the study were suffering from hypertension that had yet to be diagnosed KARACHI: A new study exploring the risk posed by high blood pressure in rural areas of Sindh has found alarmingly low levels of awareness, and numerous cases of uncontrolled blood pressure…
Sindh govt to launch major m-health initiative | Based on Teeko app of AKU to Tibbi for Smartphone-based health application
The Sindh health department has announced plans to put a smartphone-based health application, Tibbi, in every public health facility in the province. The initiative will replace prevailing paper-based systems and will see health workers collect real-time data about the use of health services and the performance of all health delivery points. Staff working on a…
‘Bringing healthcare to underserved areas’ — Story of Aga Khan University Alumni Dr.Mohsin Ali Mustafa and his newly created ‘Clinic5’
As he heard more and more stories around how healthcare services were falling short of expectations, Mohsin began to think about setting up a different kind of low-cost primary facility, an enterprise that could provide quality healthcare at a price any family could afford, in a location close to them. Clinic5 was born and joined…
The European Union (EU). Govt launch programme aimed at rural uplift in Sindh — The News com Pakistan
Karachi The European Union (EU) delegation to Pakistan, the government of Sindh and the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) launched the European Union funded six-year Sindh Union Council and Community Economic Strengthening Support (SUCCESS) programme in Karachi on Wednesday. According to a statement, the objective of the SUCCESS programme is to reduce poverty through undertaking…
Aga Khan University to train Health Department officials — AKU, Pakistan
April 13, 2015 The Sindh Health Department’s district and provincial managers will for the first time be able to enroll in a graduate-level health policy and management programme while continuing to work, as part of an initiative to build capacity to improve the health delivery system in the province. Under an agreement signed today by…
High child mortality rate in Thar no new phenomenon, say experts — Dawn com Pakistan
KARACHI: Medical experts based in Tharparkar and Karachi rejected on Sunday what the media had been describing as a continuing humanitarian crisis in Thar due to increasing number of children’s deaths and said the desert region had had the highest under five years mortality rate in Pakistan for the past three decades and there had…
Steps to provide relief to Thar people in winter reviewed — Dawn com Pakistan
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah.— INP/File KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the provincial disaster management authority to distribute 50,000 blankets in Tharparkar before the onset of winter. Besides, 1,100 hand-pumps should also be installed at the earliest in the drought-affected areas of Dadu, Jamshoro and Thatta districts…
Cries for Thar: MPAs tell govt to come out of its ‘state of denial’ — Tribune com Pakistan
MQM members protest during the Sindh Assembly session in Karachi on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. PHOTO: ONLINE KARACHI: It matters not how much the Sindh government and its cabinet ministers claim they are serious about dealing with the Thar crisis. Members of the Sindh Assembly want accountability for the crisis in Thar. Through a unanimous…
Sindh Government and Aga Khan University Support Students to Enter Nursing
One hundred and twenty-seven prospective nursing students, from Hyderabad, Matiari and Tando Muhammad Khan districts, were awarded certificates today, for completing a course that would improve their chances of entering a university programme. This opportunity was through Youth Development Programme – An Opportunity for Entering the Nursing Profession, a public-private initiative between the Aga Khan…
Pakistan: Sind Government to construct modern and earthquake-proof hospitals on the patron of Aga Khan Hospital in all district headquarters of Sindh province
Sindh CM to inaugurate earthquake-proof hospital this week – Pakistan Today ***** BADIN – Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah will inaugurate earthquake-proof Civil Hospital in Badin this week. The hospital, which is being constructed with a cost of Rs460 million on the patron of Aga Khan Hospital, will take six more months for completion. However, the…
‘Malnourishment major obstacle to polio eradication’ – The News com Pakistan
Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Monday identified decreasing routine immunization and growing malnourishment among children under five as some of the major impediments to the eradication of polio from the province. “When we look at the polio-positive cases of 2011 in the province, in most of the cases, children had either zero doses…
[Pictorial] Lok Mela brings cultural beauty of Pakistan to Islamabad (via PAMIR TIMES)
Lok Virsa has arranged a festival to celebrate the Pakistani regional cultures. Artists and performers from Balochistan, Gilgit – Baltistan, Kashmir, Khyber – Pakthunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh are attending the festival. The festival is going to continue till June 12, 2011. Federal Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan visited the GB stall and women artisans presented her…
