He informed that his organisation worked under the auspices of National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Health Care. He said the "Mother and Child week" would be started from December 3, by focusing on Internally Displaced Persons at their makeshift camps including Jalozai and Togh Sarai.
The organisation's Health and Nutrition Manager Dr Nosheen informed that its population reaching at 70,000 consisting of 13,300 under-five children and 2,800 pregnant women. She added that the aim of observing the week was to immunise every child of two years of age and de-worming every child of 2-5 years and ladies, while all pregnant women would be vaccinated against tetanus toxoid.
Dr Nosheen also said that every year Pakistan witnessed deaths of about 432,000 children under five years and 20,000 mothers during pregnancy and child birth preventable complication. Only in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 75 out of 1,000 children die before their fifth birth day while majority of the deaths were due to preventable diseases like diarrhoea, pneumonia and other vaccine, she remarked. She maintained that Pakistan was a signatory of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce under-five to 52 per 1,000 births and under-one death to 40 per 1,000 by 2015.