WHO Country Office in Pakistan

WHO in Pakistan

The World Health Organization has been working with the government of Pakistan since the inception of the Organization with the joint aspiration of realizing the highest attainable standard of health for the people of Pakistan. In this partnership, the Health for All approach has remained the central vision. The main thrust of WHO-Pakistan partnership has focused on national priorities and programme areas that will make a difference.

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Acute malnutrition, another unfolding emergency in PakistanAcute malnutrition, another unfolding emergency in Pakistan

Story and photographs by Maria Anguera de Sojo, Communications Officer, WHO Pakistan 

Maryam tenderly cushions her son Kamal on her lap as she feeds him with a small spoon. The boy looks around from the safety of his mother’s warmth with the curiosity of any toddler, his big eyes wide open and full of life. Maryam brought her two-year old to Jamshoro Hospital in southern Sindh because he had been feverish and refusing to eat for two weeks. “When he arrived he was pale and lethargic” says Dr Quatulain Saeed of the hospital’s stabilization centre for paediatric acute malnutrition. “He could not walk, stand or even sit up. He weighed five kilos, the weight of a six month old baby”.

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WHO Regional Director inspects flood-affected southern Pakistan, visits diarrhoeal treatment centre 

5 September, 2010 ¦ MULTAN – Dr Hussein A. Gezairy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, yesterday visited areas in southern Punjab affected by Pakistan's devastating floods, meeting with senior health officials and assessing one of the health facilities dedicated to treating diarrhoeal disease cases.

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Regional Director's call for donation (Arabic - English)
Pakistan floods (Arabic - English)

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Appeal for extraordinary assistance to provide clean water and sanitary conditions to those at risk of waterborne diseases in flood-affected Pakistan

The international community has already provided huge assistance through bilateral, multilateral and nongovernmental channels to support the people of Pakistan seriously affected by the ongoing floods. Many lives have already been saved through prompt search and rescue action or by evacuating whole villages and towns. But millions remain displaced in the midst of the Pakistan summer—often without sufficient shelter, food or clean water.

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WHO urges increased donor support to fund Pakistan flood crisis health projects
19 August 2010

Islamabad/Cairo/Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) today urged all donor partners to intensify efforts to provide the resources needed to deliver emergency health and humanitarian assistance to Pakistan's flood-affected communities.

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Dr Guido Sabatinelli, Special Representative and Director of Health, UNRWA, WHO Representative in Pakistan

After the retirement of Dr. Khalif Bile as the Representative of WHO in Pakistan, Dr Hussein A. Gezairy, Regional Director EMRO, has Dr Guido Sabatinelli  WHO representative in Pakistan with effect from August 8, 2010 till further notice.  

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President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan signs up as organ donor
 22 July 2010

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan signs up as organ donorIslamabad -- President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan today signals top-level personal support for a new national organ transplantation service by signing an organ donor card to bequeath his organs upon his death. The signing will take place at a ceremony at Bilawal House, Karachi.  

The new service is based on donations from deceased donors. It prohibits commercial transplantation and outlaws the organ trade.  

“Pakistan has taken an important step in passing this new law to regulate organ transplantation, and is setting an excellent example to other countries,” said Dr Hussein A. Gezairy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. “The commercialization of organ transplantation is unethical, inequitable and unhealthy – both for vendors and recipients.”

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Pakistan floods 2010
 

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Health in photos: issue 2, November 2009

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Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report (WMMR)

pdf Week 49
(28 November -04 December 2009)

Pakistan health cluster bulletin

pdf Number 13
(29 September 2009)  

Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) weekly surveillance

pdf Week 35
5 September 2009