Category: 8. Health

Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. — Reuters ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast health authorities on Tuesday reported 28 cases of mpox, with one person dying from the virus that has killed hundreds in Democratic Republic of Congo. The total has risen from six declared cases on August…

Health workers walk at the Mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma on August 17, 2024. — AFP GENEVA: The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it. While more research is needed…

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari visits the latest cyber knife facility S-7 FIM at the Jinnah Hospital, Karachi on August 19, 2024. — Geo News/Screengrab Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday inaugurated two different departments of over one hundred beds each and the latest cancer fighting technology CyberKnife S7-FIM at……

Pakistani airport staff walks through the Islamabad International Airport on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 26, 2018. — AFP KARACHI: The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) on Sunday directed the authorities concerned to implement precautionary measures against monkeypox at airports after a case of the infectious viral disease was reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Since…

A delivery boy rides past the building of National Institute of Health (NIH), a Pakistani research institute mainly responsible for biomedical and health related research, in Islamabad, August 16, 2024. – AFP  ISLAMABAD: After confirmation of first Monekypox (mpox) case in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday ordered to enhance the effectiveness of screening…

In response to the recent monkeypox (monkey pox) cases reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Lahore Airport has been placed on high alert. The Border Health Management convened an emergency meeting with airport managers, leading to the implementation of stricter protocols to prevent the virus’s spread. Enhanced measures include the installation of thermal scanners at Lahore Airport…

A representational image of patients in a hospital ward. — AFP/File KARACHI: An infection control alert has been issued in hospitals across the metropolis following the emergence of monkeypox virus in the country. The directives for both private and government-run hospitals follow the Federal Health Ministry’s confirmation that mpox was diagnosed in at least one patient…

A doctor examines lesions on the hands of a person, who is suffering from monkeypox, in Yakusu, Tshopo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 2, 2022. — Reuters PESHAWAR: Pakistan has detected the first positive patient with the monkeypox virus, Director General Health and Services of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr Salim Khan confirmed to The News…

A woman shows the rash marks on her son who recovered from Mpox outside their shelter at the Muja displaced persons camp, in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 18, 2024. — Reuters Health authorities on Friday confirmed that three people have been diagnosed with the monkeypox…

Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. — Reuters Pakistan on Thursday detected the first case of monkeypox of 2024 among a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) citizen who flew back home from Saudi Arabia — just a day after the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) issued an…