Dr. Shazia Khpalwak visits remote areas of Pakistan's Balochistan Province to provide care for mothers and newborns. Her work ...

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Death tolls across ... in storm-related incidents as Pakistan has been hammered by spring downpours, in which rain falls at nearly twice the historical average rate. Afghanistan was parched ...

Pakistan has a neonatal mortality rate of 41 deaths per 1,000 lives, which is one of the highest in the world, and when it comes to the mortality rate of children aged less than five years (<5 ...

Pakistan is the epicenter of a new global wave ... and better adapt to frequent bouts of extreme heat. The rising death rate, 50 per 100,000, is higher than that of nearly all other countries ...

KARACHI (Web Desk) - A 23-year-old man died in Karachi after contracting Naegleria fowleri, the Sindh Health Department said ...

Official flood death counts in Pakistan only account for immediate ... one physician for every 1,000 people—the U.S. has a rate more than three times that—and one nurse or midwife for every ...

Pakistan has considerable control over infectious diseases but now struggles against cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer as causes of early deaths ... curb rising rates of non ...

“Pakistan is drowning. There has been so much damage everywhere.” The natural disaster comes as the government is faced with one of Asia’s fastest inflation rates and is attempting to end a ...

The study found mortality rate for critically ill children (above 1 month) in these hospitals at 1.2%, comparable with the best private hospital in Pakistan. The finding underscores the impact of ...