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| | Task force established in NWFP to combat hepatitis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The NWFP is the first region in Pakistan to launch such a campaign," the provincial health secretary, Dr Ihsan-Ul-Haq, told IRIN from Peshawar, adding that the federal government was working on a similar idea for the whole country. |
 | | All the districts in the NWFP were involved, with the three main components of the campaign intended to raise awareness amongst health workers, to hold public meetings in hospitals and arrange walks to raise awareness, Najibul Haq said, adding that his task force wanted to see the activities continue even after the campaign ended. |
 | | At present 18 percent of all patients admitted to general wards in hospitals in the NWFP suffered from hepatitis in one form or other, the chief of the NWFP government’s Health Sector, Research and Reform Unit, Dr Mohammed Rafiq, told IRIN from Peshawar. |
| www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=35819 (484 words) |
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