World Breastfeeding Week being observed
ISLAMABAD: World Breastfeeding Week is being observed from August 1 to August 7 across the globe, including Pakistan.
Pakistan: KP yet to enact law to check childhood diseases
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is yet to enact its own exclusive law to promote breastfeeding and apply brakes on avoidable childhood deaths, according to paediatricians and officials.
Pakistan: Government to focus on health of infants, mothers
Legislation in Pakistan is under way for the establishment of the Punjab Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Authority.
Newborn medicine trailblazer to work at Toronto’s Sick Kids
When Bhutta first launched his career, neonatal pediatrics was barely even a concept in his home country. Today, he is credited as a major force in putting the health of mothers and their babies on the development agenda — not just in Pakistan but across the world.
Maternal and child health: Achieving MDGs a distant dream for Pakistan
To reduce under-five mortality rate, there is a need for huge investment in health services for pregnant women and the newborn baby, including the prevention of preterm births and stillbirths and scale-up of effective low-cost interventions, it stated.
Good Health Lies Just Across the Border
Muzaffar Shah, a shopkeeper from Kabul, sits in a hospital waiting room, desperate for news. He has travelled nearly 300 km to get to the capital of northern Pakistan, where his wife is now in intensive care.
Pakistan: 420,000 children under five die annually
The analysis said cause of infant death such as birth asphyxia can be drastically reduced through delivery at a health institution, under the care of medical professionals.
Pakistan is the most dangerous place in Asia to be born: Report
Save the Children Director Health and Nutrition Dr Qudsia Uzma said the 0.9 per cent annual decrease in infant mortality in the country was lower than the global average of 2.1 per cent.
Grand Challenges: Innovative ideas for saving lives get a leg up
Grand Challenges Canada announced $10.9 million in seed money to that will part go to help combat newborn infections and prematurity.
Simple antiseptic can save newborn lives
Chlorhexidine has been around for ages and is often used as an antiseptic, but a number of studies are confirming that this intervention could have a major impact on the high number of newborn deaths in the world and more specifically sub-Saharan Africa.