Karachi's public healthcare network continues to function inside decades-old structures, where fragile electrical wiring and the absence of organised fire response systems threaten the lives of patients and medical workers.
Dawn reported that hospital data from Karachi and Hyderabad showed 103 deaths from mosquito-borne diseases in Sindh in 2025, including malaria and dengue, higher than official figures of 33 deaths. Hospitals recorded thousands of dengue and malaria cases, with severe infections linked to del
Sindh faces a major dengue outbreak, with hospital data showing over 12,000 cases in six weeks, far exceeding official figures of 819, Dawn reported. Experts blame poor drainage and weak fumigation, while the health minister said anti-dengue campaigns have been intensified across the provinc
Amid an escalating health emergency in Sindh, discrepancies between official dengue data and figures from major hospitals have raised serious questions over Pakistan's handling of disease surveillance, while the provincial health department reported only 819 dengue cases this year, data coll