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S Jafarey

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PubMed1999

Guestworker migration, remittances and the extended family: evidence from Pakistan.

"The paper places migration in the context of the extended family. It models informal loans between migrant and extended family for financing the costs of international labor migration. To show repayments to extended family is important; we trace the effects of such loans on migrant savings and remittance to the immediate family. We employ a standard life-cycle approach, which predicts that the demand for extended family financing rises with migration costs and falls with pre-migration wealth. Remittance to the immediate family and savings retained abroad both fall with the pre-migration loan." These hypotheses are tested using data from a survey of return migrants to Pakistan carried out in 1986.

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PubMed1991

A rare neural tube defect: a report of eight cases in Pakistan.

Iniencephaly is a rare congenital malformation of central nervous system and axial skeleton. Eight cases were seen in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre over a 12 month period constituting 0.1% of all deliveries conducted, the estimated frequency being 1: 850 deliveries. The purpose of this paper is to describe our cases and to report several considerations which might influence the antenatal diagnosis of this rare anomaly.

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PubMed1991

Prevalence of premenstrual syndrome in Pakistani women.

The prevalence of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) was determined in 1600 women belonging to various socioeconomic groups in Karachi. Of the total, 33% had PMS, whose prevalence was high in lower socioeconomic group living in socially deprived areas. A direct association of PMS was noted with parity, being low in low parity group. Major complaints were pain in lower abdomen, cramps and backache with majority taking no treatment for their complaints.

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PubMed1989

Bacteriological study of genital tract infection in puerperium.

Of 185 vaginal and 13 wound swabs obtained from febrile females after delivery and abortions, 140 (75.6%) vaginal and 10 (76.9%) wound swabs were positive for bacteria. Infection caused by a single bacterium was found in 100 (71.4%) and mixed infection in 40 (28.5%). E. coli was mainly isolated followed by Staph. aureus and Klebsiella. Fosfomycin was the most effective antibiotic against E. coli and Gentamycin against Staph. aureus.

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