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Measles outbreak in Pakistan

Battling disease and distrust in Pakistan By Muhammad Shahid Imran Travelling along Ahmad Nawaz, a rural vaccinator reveals the true difficulties and problems in the way of proper routine vaccination in Pakistan. The majority of Pakistani population consist of rural area which has been totally unaware about the importance of vaccine. There are myths among them that we saw many people survive long life without any vaccination. The rural areas of Pakistan actually witness countless unreported cases of measles and other killer diseases. Ahmad has been informed by health centre about a death of child suffering from measles at hospital from this locality. The child was died because of the complications of measles, pneumonia and diarrheal fever. He was brought to hospital in total unconscious. His parents were responsible for this as they do not go through proper check up they assume it only a fever.   Now as per directions vaccinating team has to vaccinate the whole vill

you can save life!

You can save a life! By Muhammad Shahid Imran Imagine if you have to beg people to donate blood after every two weeks! Only a mother would ever do that for her children. Aysha married her cousin and after the birth of their first child they come to know that they are thallassemia minors. They give birth to a thallassemia major child. Her cousin said that he could not spend his life with parasite that needs blood after every two week so either she killed the baby or he will going to divorce her. She loved her husband so much and has proven this whole year since their marriage. It was a tough exam for her as a mother and as wife; she has to decide the single route to go. There is no mother on earth who could kill her baby with her own hands so was the Aysha. She decided to live without her husband and home. Meanwhile her husband divorced her and blamed her that it was her fault to give birth to such ill child. Aysha believed that there high in the skies live a Kin