Education and Information

By Kiran Mubeen

Have you ever asked your children to shut up when they asked you questions regarding physical differences between male and female or about the process of child birth? Have your child ever reported that they have been   embarrassed in front of their peers due to lack of information about pubertal changes? Do you ever find yourself helpless when your child asks you questions regarding sexuality? These questions reflect that our adolescents have dire need to receive reproductive health education. But here the question arises that how does parents respond to them? Unfortunately, in our society parents unintentionally reject their children’s concerns. As a consequence, the child’s curiosity to know the answers does not suppress. Rather, it gives birth to thousands of questions in their immature minds. Because, we as parents communicate to our children that asking such questions from parents is absolutely inappropriate but it may be appropriate to look for other sources for their answers. Read the rest of this entry »

By Rumaila Rajwani for Hunzatimes

Women role has significantly changed over the past all over the world. They are now equally educated as men, in fact they are contributing financially in their families. Although this role has exposed women to many challenges but women are motivated to cross these hurdles. This role became most difficult when it comes to motherhood especially with mothers of our society as they are never encouraged to continue their jobs after they had their first baby. They are usually suggested to stay home if they don’t want their children to be ignored, and we women consider it as true and never think beyond. I have seen many cases in my surrounding which make me think that I am a women too and intended to be working in future what will happen to me? This thaught influence me to write about this important issue. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sabra Haffez for Hunzatimes
In our life most of the times we remain focus on what others are doing. We usually try to follow the people we are impressed by and this is natural. But if we see in our surrounding, and understand, we would be able to know that here everyone is trying to compete other. For instance, if neighbors’ are eating pizza, I should also have an approach to this food or the dress my friend was wearing in cousin marriage, I should have the same; children of my sister are getting education in convent school, why my children should go to a government school? These are the behaviors which are making our life very difficult and unhappy. Read the rest of this entry »

By Rozina Barkat Ali ( Student AKU) for Hunzatimes
Human life in today’s world is like a machine. People are working day and night in order to earn money and live a luxurious life. Longer working hours have become a norm in our society although the number and pattern of hours which people are required to work has a pervasive influence not only on their working lives but also on their home and leisure time. World has become so competitive today that every individual is pressurized to work for long hours.

I belong to a medical profession. This is a profession, where people need to work for long hours. Whenever, there is a crises situation either it are in the form of shortage of staff or heavy influx of patients, management increases our working hours from eight hours a day to twelve hours a day. When I experienced the same situation for a month, I realized that my social life was completely ruined and I was staying sick most of the days.

According to International Labor Organization recommendation number 178, “Normal hours of work not exceed 8 in any 24 hour periods; avoid overtime and no overtime in occupations involving special hazards or heavy physical or mental strain; no consecutive full-time shifts; at least 11 hour of break between shifts.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Rozina Khawaja

Do you know that nurses have multiple roles in their professional life? One of the role is a school health nurse; unfortunately hardly you see any school health nurse in Pakistan, because our schools do not see any role of a nurse in their setting. They think that the need of nurses is limited to hospital or health care setting. Mostly the teachers are responsible for taking care of student’s health, which sometimes may risky because teaching staff is not trained for this job and also pre occupied and overburden with other tasks. Read the rest of this entry »

By  Anita Amin Mohammad ( Hunzatimes)

After nine eleven the world is facing inflation so do we Pakistani. A poor or a middle class group is suffering the most from these increasing prices. A family requires basic needs like food, shelter, clothing and transportation. Inflation has targeted these basic needs. According to a recent updated data from Asia news network (2010) “Pakistan’s annual inflation rate hit a record high of 24.3 per cent in July 2007. Its fastest pace in 30 years, from 21.5 per cent in June 2007. Inflation was at 6.37 per cent a year ago.” Thus, statistics reveal that Pakistan ranked top third in rising inflation among south Asia with an inflation rate of 11.17 per cent in 2009 as cited in trading economics. If this situation prevails longer than poorer would become more and more poor and richer will be more rich. There are few simple ways to combat inflation and these are saving, budgeting and taking care of the hidden costs. Read the rest of this entry »

By Hina Rajan ( AKU) for Hunzatimes

I belong to a nursing profession and during my mental health clinical rotation I encountered many patients suffering from mental illness and core reason behind their illness was their antisocial personality that led them to mental disorders. Therefore, I thought to make people aware about this important issue which they are ignoring due to their busy life schedule .In this article, I would be discussing, socialization its importance and its impact on society?

Socialization is of life the process by which humans learn from others. We begin learning from others during the early days; and most people continue their social learning throughout life. Or socialization is the process that prepares humans to function in social life. Socialization is important for the development of individuals to participate and function well within their society, as well as it is important that a society’s cultural features will be carried to their new generations. Socialization is strongly forced by family, school, and peer. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Afsar Jan (Instructor Shifa College of Nursing for Hunzatimes)

World thalassemia day is celebrated on 8th of May world wide. Thalassa is Greek word meaning to sea; and Haema) means blood. This name is referred after when it was found much prevalent among Mediterranean people. It is an inherited (passed from parents to childred) autosomal recessive blood disease. This is a genetic defect which results from reduced synthesis of globin chain that makes hemoglobin and this reduced hemoglobin causes to anemia. Normally, hemoglobin is composed of two chains each of α and β globin. In thalassemia either there is deficiency of α or β globin. β globin chains are encoded by a single gene on chromosome 11 while α globin chains are encoded by two closely linked genes on chromosome 16. For the autosomal recessive forms of the disease both parents must be carriers in order for a child to be affected. If both parents carry a hemoglobinopathy trait, there is a 25% chance with each pregnancy for an affected child. The symptoms may include paleness, headache, fatigue and shortness of breath. Read the rest of this entry »