ISLAMABAD: Yearly some 150,000 new cancer cases occur in men and women of all ages
in Pakistan, and 8% (around 12,000) of those distressed die every year, Saira
Afzal Tarar told the upper house of parliament.
Tarar — minister of state for national
health services, regulations and coordination (NHSRC) — quoted the World Health
Organization while sharing the informations.
She
expressed the Senate during the question hour that the government had
constituted a committee on non-communicable diseases, which includes cancer. A
survey has also been carried out across the country to ascertain the risk
factors of these diseases.
The
minister blamed tobacco use for most cases of non-communicable diseases in
Pakistan. A control unit in the NHSRC is trying to reduce tobacco ingesting
through lawmaking and penalty imposed through police and other departments.
Meanwhile,
Tarar exposed that around 862 million doses of oral polio vaccine were directed
to under-five children across the country through national and subnational
supplementary vaccination activities between 2013 and 2015.
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