Ever since the emergence of COVID-19, it has caused the ripples of research in biomedical sciences, pathology, virology, genetics, pharmacology and drug designing.
Doctors say climate change, urbanisation and migration patterns, as well as inadequate sanitation, are driving the spread of the sandfly-borne parasitic skin ailment.
In the United States alone, medical errors are responsible for an estimated 250,000 deaths per year. In a country like Pakistan, where no such data is available, one can estimate the harm it poses.
