LAHORE:Caretaker Provincial Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Prof Dr Javed Akram has emphasised to take preventive measures in the educational institutions of Punjab to.
To provide survivor-centered care, health workers in Pakistan learn to ask about gender-based violence with empathy
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Early in her career, Dr Rukhsana Bashir, a clinician in Pakistan, was used to seeing women in her clinic with symptoms of pain, headaches, insomnia and depression. She would listen and treat each symptom, but the underlying causes went unnoticed.
She did not know that some of those women were experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) – a pervasive health challenge throughout the country and world, and one she personally had experienced.
Approximately, 34% of ever married women in Pakistan have experienced spousal violence, either physical, sexual or emotional, in their lifetime, with rates increasing as high as 52% in Khyber Paktunkhwa Province.
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Dr Yasmin calls for local family planning strategies
Lahore
March 3, 2021
LAHORE:Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid urged stakeholders to work in synergy to achieve Mother and Child health and family planning targets in a meeting with World Health Organisation and Unicef delegation at the Committee Room of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department here on Tuesday.
Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Usman Younis, Secretary Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department Barrister Nabeel Awan, Secretary Population Welfare Ali Bahadur Qazi, CFO Unicef Punjab Wilbroadd Ngambi, Dr Akhtar Rashid, Dr Yahya Gulzar, Dr Ghulam Nabi Qazi, Dr Khalid Mehmood, Dr Faraz Khalid, Dr Naveed and others were present in the meeting. The minister discussed with the delegation the measures taken in the province to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, family planning and mother and child health indicators. She shared with the delegation the special measures on fami