Tag: Public Health

Clean Environment Top Priority, Says SPA MD Imran Shams

Zafar Chishti
Sanitation workers cleaning a road in Faisalabad as part of city cleanliness operations.

Clean Environment Top Priority, Says MD SPA Imran Shams By Zafar Chishti, Bureau Chief Punjab Pakistan FAISALABAD: Managing Director of the Suthra Punjab Agency (SPA), Faisalabad, Imran Shams has said that providing citizens with a clean, healthy and pleasant environment is the agency’s foremost responsibility. He said practical measures were being taken to improve the sanitation system and maintain cleanliness standards throughout the city. Sanitation Operations Continue Across Faisalabad Imran Shams said the agency’s sanitation staff remained active in the field daily, carrying out cleaning operations on roads, streets, highways,…

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Dengue and the Cost of Waiting: Pakistan Needs Better Prevention

Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal
Dengue prevention efforts and mosquito breeding control in a Pakistani urban area

Dengue and the Cost of Waiting By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal There is a familiar weakness in the human character; we are often more comfortable responding to danger than preparing for it. We wait for the storm before repairing the roof, for the illness before changing our habits, and for the crisis before asking why we were not prepared. Nations, however, cannot afford to live by such habits. The measure of a responsible society is not how vigorously it responds to a disaster, but how wisely it prepares to prevent one.…

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Lahore’s Toxic Air, Billions Spent on Smog Theatre and the Government’s Blindfold

Mian Iftikhar Ahmad

By Iftikhar Ahmad Lahore’s air is poisoned, and this poison is descending into the lungs of the city’s 13 million residents with every breath. At 9:30 AM on a September 2026 morning, Lahore’s Air Quality Index reached 194, which is classified as extremely unhealthy, and at that moment the city rose to the number one position on the list of the world’s most polluted cities. This is not an accidental occurrence but the logical outcome of a continuously deteriorating situation. In 2025, Lahore’s average PM2.5 concentration was recorded at 88.9…

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Netherlands Reports First West Nile Virus Death

Nadeem Ali

AMSTERDAM: A person has died in a Dutch hospital after catching West Nile virus in the Netherlands, the country’s public health institute RIVM said on Wednesday. The death comes days after health officials reported the first West Nile virus infection caught inside the Netherlands since 2020. RIVM said last week that three people had likely caught the virus inside the country. Officials have not confirmed whether the person who died was one of those three patients. The health agency has not released further details about the death. West Nile Virus…

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