Tag: Testing
Rights Watch | 18th June 2020
Child Labour: Government has decided to criminalise child domestic labor. Cabinet has approved MoHR's summary to amend the 1991 Child Employment Act. Shireen Mazari also said that Section 4 of the Act ...
DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR: Millions in Pakistan continue to toil
Jun 12, 2020: Child labour is a social ill still rampant in Pakistan despite several laws outlawing the practice. Pakistan’s first set of laws prohibiting child labour were not passed until early 1990 after push from activists – the most important of which ...
Sindh’s private hospitals run out of COVID-19 beds
Jun 11, 2020: The surge in Sindh’s coronavirus cases has put citizens in peril as private hospitals across the province run out of dedicated COVID-19 beds. Healthcare experts in Sindh have termed the pandemic situation alarming, citing incidents where patients ..
Why Are Pakistan’s COVID-19 Fatalities So Low?
Jun 2, 2020: South Asian countries have had a long-standing image in the international community as being hubs of diseases and pestilence, coupled with a crippled healthcare system that is unable to address the healthcare needs of its ...
Sudden Drop In Covid Testing In Some KP Areas
A major chunk of people from Malakand and Hazara, with symptoms similar to coronavirus, has been avoiding visiting hospitals for COVID-19 testing out of fear, despite there being a rise in cases of the deadly virus in the region. Since after ...
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Pakistan’s COVID-19 Testing Capacity
On April 7, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Zafar Mirza tweeted that Pakistan’s daily testing capacity will be raised to 20,000 “in the coming days”. Fast forward to May 16 and Pakistan has conducted only ...
