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As COVID-19 cases rise, WHO asks countries to strengthen surveillanceThe World Health Organization (WHO) has called upon countries in the South-East Asia region to enhance surveillance efforts due to the risi...- Mansukh Mandaviya meets WHO chief, discusses promoting Ayurveda to further global wellnessGhebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) is in India for the ground breaking ceremony of the WHO Global Centre for Tr...
- GCTM aims to improve quality of traditional medicinal practices: WHO regional directorThe objective is also to develop a mechanism that allows access to such traditional medicinal practices and protects such knowledge, Dr Poo...
- Risk persists even though COVID-19 cases starting to plateau in parts of India, says WHOResponding to a question that coronavirus cases have started plateauing in India, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-E...
- 'Not against boosters for high-risk people'Several countries including India are planning to start booster vaccination for high-risk populations such as people above 60 years of age ...
- AIIMS made enormous contributions during COVID crisis: Harsh VardhanFormulating a new vision for AIIMS by looking at the undaunting spirit of its founder, he said, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur reached out to foreign...
- WHO welcomes India's COVID-19 vaccine approvalAccording to Khetrapal, the use of vaccine in "priortised population" as well as implementation of other public health measures will be imp...
- Vaccine allocation key as supplies will run low for some years: Poonam Khetrapal Singh"WHO is working on an allocation policy for Covid-19 vaccines and has proposed that the goal of vaccination should be to minimise the socie...
- Fighting Covid: WHO calls for society to play stronger role, says health workers need to be protectedDr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said at this stage everyone needs to contribute to minimize the impact.
- Deal with outdoor air pollution: WHO urges SE Asian regionNoting that outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cancer, WHO today urged governments of Southeast Asian region to tackle the issue w...
- Food contamination kills 175,000 people in south east Asia each yearThe report has found that three in 10 children, under the age of five years, suffer from diarrhoea which is a major death among kids in the...
- 'Private sector support lacking in public health schemes'"To achieve this goal, a major re-engineering of existing skills and system was undertaken. Thus, the genesis of Department of Research," R...
- P.vivax strain of malaria poses new lethal threat to India, says WHOExperts say, P.vivax is proving to be an extremely difficult parasite as it does not readily respond to the existing control measures
- International Day of Yoga brings spotlight on physical exercise: WHOPoonam Khetrapal Singh said yoga fits in well with the healthy lifestyle that WHO has been strongly advocating for.
- 60% deaths in India last year due to non-communicable diseasesWHO regional director for South-East Asia region Poonam Khetrapal Singh said that most of the premature NCD deaths are preventable.
- World Health Organisation stresses on improving indoor air qualityOver 60 per cent of homes in WHO South-East Asia Region still use solid fuel for cooking. In India, this amounts to some 700 million people.
- Huge success in fight against HIV, but more needs to be done: WHO officialIn the WHO South-East Asia region, as of 2013, there were around 3.4 million people living with HIV and 1.1 million of them are currently o...
- World Health Organisation calls for greater investment to check malariaEven though the number of confirmed malaria cases in the region decreased from 2.9 million in 2000 to 2 million in 2012, malaria remains a ...
- No reports of suspected swine flu in India: WHOIndia has not reported any suspected case of deadly swine flu so far and the country has "tremendous capacity" to deal with the situation i...
- India to see increase in vector, water borne diseasesPredicting a plethora of health problems as a result of climate change, the WHO said countries like India would see an increase in vector a...
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