Nurses treat an injured child at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 16 2013 (IPS) – Ajab Gul is haunted by bloody scenes. He hears women crying and children screaming. “I can’t sleep,” says the 25-year-old health worker at a well-known Pakistani hospital in the frontier city that tends to terror victims.
He works at Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) in Peshawar which is said to receive 98 percent of all terror attack cases in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
And Gul’s job is particularly difficult. Posted at the hospital’s accident and emergency department – one of the largest in Pakistan he…
Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer Programme is implemented by the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health and has been operating since 2003. As of December 2014, it reached 150,000 households and there are concrete plans to scale it up nation-wide in the near future. Photo: FAO
ROME, Jan 14 2017 (IPS) – Not at all. Or at least not necessarily. The fact is that cash transfer programmes –regular money payments to poor households—are meant to reduce poverty, promote sustainable livelihoods and increase production in the developing world. One in four countries on Earth are applying them. But are they effective?
That depends. In some countries, lik…
In Iran, which has seen some of the highest COVID-19 infection and death rates in the world, a number of reporters are now facing jail after being detained earlier this month for challenging official statistics about the outbreak of the disease in the country. People in Rasht, Gilan Province, Iran, taking precautions to prevent infection by wearing masks in public.
BRATISLAVA, Mar 20 2020 (IPS) – Growing intimidation and repression of journalists reporting on the coronavirus is threatening public health in some countries, press freedom monitors have warned.
Repressive regimes desperate to control the narrative around the disease’s spread ha…
The UN will be commemorating World Water Day on Monday March 22.
In northern Ghana some 50% of people lack access to safe drinking water. Credit: UNDP Ghana
EAST SUSSEX, UK, Mar 20 2021 (IPS) – In the midst of a global pandemic, when the presence of water in our lives has never seemed more important, its future availability has also never been more uncertain.
Water scarcity is now such a threat that it is even possible to trade in ‘water futures’ joining commodities like gold and oil on Wall Street, with traders .
So, while farmers and pastoralists struggle to know when the next rainfall will come, and women and children walk for hours to collect wate…