Samia Altaf
Appropriate action can still make a difference.
Published 07 Apr, 2020 06:47am
Facemasks and protective gear, critical to health staff who are most at risk, are in short supply.
Updated 21 Mar, 2020 08:25am
Polio vaccinators are poorly monitored.
Published 02 Dec, 2019 07:06am
Punishing the perpetrator is not enough.
Published 20 Oct, 2019 06:56am
What have Punjab’s child services agencies done?
Published 01 Oct, 2019 07:20am
Unless there is a change in strategy, Pakistan’s polio crisis will spill over into other countries.
Published 23 Sep, 2019 07:05am
Parents are suspicious of a system which they feel is not aligned with the best interests of their child.
Published 25 Aug, 2019 07:02am
If India and Bangladesh can eradicate polio, why can’t Pakistan?
Published 20 Jul, 2019 06:58am
Religion is not the reason Pakistani parents refuse the polio vaccine.
Published 01 Jul, 2019 07:14am
A bureaucratic prescription of cosmetic change by executive fiat is not going to do the trick.
Published 12 Nov, 2018 06:59am
Solutions at the margins in the absence of a robust public health system will not resolve the healthcare crisis.
Published 19 Mar, 2018 07:24am
Why build a parallel health system for the poor?
Published 12 Feb, 2017 01:33am
Who is responsible for the Kasur woman’s death?
Published 29 Jan, 2017 06:36am
Health cards are not the solution.
Published 22 Jan, 2017 06:55am
No one seems to be minding the store.
Published 16 Jul, 2015 01:00am
Hopefully, Ebola will not enter Pakistan. But the fact remains that it can.
Published 26 Oct, 2014 06:38am
For the past two decades vaccination coverage rates for polio have been less than 60pc.
Published 20 Oct, 2014 12:33am
A desperate campaign will not eliminate polio.
Published 30 Sep, 2014 01:27am
