Slow rate
July 8, 2021
Pakistan’s Covid-19 vaccination rate is one of the lowest in the world. The country received its first batch of vaccine in February and since then it has only been able to fully vaccinate around 3.5 million people (Pakistan has the total population of close to 220 million). Medical experts have said that vaccine hesitancy is one of the major factors that have resulted in the slow vaccination rate. People are hesitant to use vaccines because of conspiracy theories, religious beliefs, fear of side effects, and a lack of awareness. Also, many influential people were able to jump the line and receive the vaccine doses even before they were eligible to get one. Some months ago, a video went viral on social media which showed how a minister’s family and friends were getting vaccinated at the minister’s home.
The relaunch of PIA’s Sadpara Air Safari is a great initiative that will attract a large number of international and domestic visitors. This flight will offer spectacular views of the.
Child mortality
May 1, 2021
In Pakistan, the neonatal mortality rate is at least 45 percent per 1,000 births. On the other hand, the under-five mortality rate is 67 percent per 1,000 children. Pakistan is also one of the two countries that are still trapped in the polio epidemic. Also, 14 percent of children, in our country, die from pneumonia and 25 percent die from measles, tetanus, and other vaccine-preventable diseases. A lot of these deaths could have been avoided, had the relevant authorities carried out proper vaccination programmes. A vaccine helps a child’s immune system to fight against preventable diseases. There are certain state-backed vaccination programmes that provide free vaccine doses. For example, the Expanded Program on Immunization, which was launched in the late 1970s, provides vaccines against at least eight vaccine-preventable diseases to children below 23 months of age. But since we’re living in a society where socio-cultural taboos dominate, these va