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Excessive polio vaccination batters immune system Resistance in children against poliomyelitis virus has been diminishing, observed a senior paediatrician when asked to comment on an alarming number of polio cases, reports Nadeem Saeed
Also see Polio eradication target unlikely to be achieved
Pateints prefer private health facilities Eighty per cent patients prefer private sector health facilities in the Punjab, says a provincial health department survey, Nadeem Saeed reports
Also see Health care: Govt spends Rs 4.21 annually per capita
Procedural snags hindering drugs' purchase 70 per cent of the funds are yet to be utilized Owing to procedural flaws while the current fiscal year is near to its end, writes Nadeem Saeed
Also see 'Irregularities' in purchase of drugs
Fiasco feared in new women health project Health department is all set to launch a women health project at a cost of Rs1.51 billion in the next fiscal amid apprehensions of it being yet another fiasco, Nadeem Saeed writes
Too many non-professionals on hospital BoGs Govt inducts retired army officials, ruling party office-bearers and 'influential' people in the board of governors (BOGs) for three autonomous hospitals of the south Punjab, writes Nadeem Saeed
Born with an exposed heart Aleena, aged 3, is a lively little girl who is as joyful as any child of her age can be. But, she is living with the rare congenital anomaly of cleft sternum, writes Nadeem Saeed
Also see Aleena offered free treatrment at NICVD
Child with rare ailment awaits help Muhammad Tayyab alias Bablu has barely two feet (62.5cm) height with 5kg weight at the age of ten. Doctors fear he is suffering from one of the rarest known diseases, the Russell Silver Syndrome, Nadeem Saeed reports
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