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India reports first Mpox strain case that led WHO to declare public health emergency: Sources
New Delhi: India has reported the first case of the Mpox strain, which led to the WHO declaring it a public health emergency last month, in a patient from Kerala who had…
- World
Climate change a challenge for our global food systems: WHO
New Delhi: Climate change is a challenge for the global food system, said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, at the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday. In a video message to…
- India
India among top 3 countries with highest road deaths in SE Asia: WHO
New Delhi: India, Indonesia, and Myanmar are the top 3 countries with the highest road deaths in South-East Asia, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report on road safety launched on…
- Middle East
Gaza launches polio vaccination campaign for children amid ongoing conflict
Geneva: A large-scale vaccination campaign to fight a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip is set to begin on September 1, announced the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative for the occupied Palestinian…
- India
Outbreak of Chandipura virus in India largest in 20 years: WHO
New Delhi: The WHO has recently said the current outbreak of the Chandipura virus in India is the largest in 20 years. According to the global health body, between early June and…
- Health
Sudan officially declares cholera outbreak
Khartoum: Sudan’s Health Minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim on Saturday officially declared a cholera outbreak in the country. “The lab test of watery diarrhea at the Public Health Laboratory proves it to be…
- India
Risk of surge in Mpox cases very low in India at present: Official
New Delhi: The risk for an upsurge of Mpox, once known as monkeypox, infection is very low in India at the moment and there is no need to panic, sources in the…
- World
WHO declares global health emergency over Mpox outbreak
United Nations: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared a global health emergency as Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, spreads rapidly across 13 African countries, including Congo, where 14,000 cases and…
- Middle East
WHO commends UAE for evacuating 85 Palestinian patients from Gaza
The WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean expressed gratitude to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for announcing an urgent initiative to evacuate sick and severely injured Palestinians, including cancer patients, for…
- News
WHO calls for accelerated action against hepatitis
New Delhi: The World Health Organization on Saturday called on countries in Southeast Asia to urgently scale up efforts for providing universal access to prevention, vaccination, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis…
- World
UNICEF, WHO call for step-up in child vaccinations stalled after Covid pandemic
United Nations: Two UN agencies have called for a catch-up in child immunisation, warning global vaccinations of children stalled last year, leaving 2.7 million unvaccinated or with insufficient inoculations. The latest World…
- News
1.6 million sickened by unsafe food worldwide, says WHO
Hyderabad: A whooping 1.6 million people worldwide, including 40 percent of children under 5, fall ill due to the consumption of unsafe food, said WHO Regional Director Saima Wazed. According to reports,…
- India
WHO chief refers to Global Traditional Medicine Centre in India
United Nations: World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday referred to the Global Traditional Medicine Centre set up in India and the first global summit on traditional medicine hosted by…
- World
Covid pandemic reversed progress of last 10 years in global life expectancy: WHO
Geneva: The recent deadly Covid-19 pandemic reversed the last 10 years’ steady gain seen in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE) worldwide, according to a new report…
- Middle East
Aid distribution suspended in Gaza, WHO head urges Israel to lift restrictions
Tel Aviv: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) temporarily suspended food distribution in Rafah, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has asked Israel to lift…
