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| PMA highlights alarming population statistics |
| 2019-01-08 |
| [DAWN] The Pakistain Medical Association (PMA) on Sunday said the country registered birth of 15,000 babies on the first day of the New Year, showing an increase of over five million in a year, which was not a good omen for a country which had miserably limited resources to run itself. It demanded the government to formulate an effective policy to control the alarmingly increasing population. "The PMA has been raising its voice for long to curb the rapid increase of population in Pakistain. The birth of 15,000 babies in Pakistain on the first day of 2019 is an alarming sign," said PMA secretary general SM Qaisar Sajjad in a policy statement of the medical fraternity’s premier body. The PMA official cited a report issued by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... agency for children giving the number of births per day in Pakistain. "It means we have 450,000 births in a month and 5.4 million in a year. This proves that Pakistain is among the countries registering the fastest population growth in the world." The PMA said at present Pakistain was a country with more than 200 million people and in a few years it would be the fourth most populous nation in the world. "The PMA thinks that it is a distressing situation as at the moment 60 per cent of the national population stands below the age of 25 years; 25 million children are not going to school and 90pc population is not being provided with clean drinking water. Malnutrition is another big issue and food scarcity is a grave problem as well. |
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