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World Blood Donor Day: WHO urges blood donors to 'Join the effort' to save
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 13 (ANI): To mark World Blood Donor Day, WHO has urged potential blood donors in the South-East Asia Region and across the world to "join the effort" to save lives, improve health and advance health equity by making regular, voluntary, unpaid blood donations.
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WHO hopes Jamnagar traditional medicine facility boosts global wellbeing
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): As India is set to establish WHO Global Centre for traditional medicine in Gujarat's Jamnagar, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, on Tuesday said that it will be a hub of excellence which will help deliver safe, effect
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Global Centre for traditional medicine in India could be game-changer: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): With India set to establish WHO Global Centre for traditional medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region has called it a "game-changer."
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iPiD launches in India with Asit Oberoi appointed as the South Asian Regio
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 6 (ANI/BusinessWire India): The ground-breaking fintech of International Payments- iPiD, today announced its launch in the Indian market. iPiD is a technological innovative initiative for financial transactions cutting across the political borders of natio
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No google office in Pakistan amid accelerating digitalization
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 26 (ANI): With the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistanis' consumption of online media has increased and that by extension have increased the need for localizing the offices of digital giants like google however Pakistan still do not have any google office in the country.
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UNICEF says gathering over USD 440mn to provide aid for Ukrainian people
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Paris [France], March 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced the start of a fundraising campaign to provide aid to the Ukrainian people, assessing the urgent needs at the level of 400 million euros (over $441 million), Deputy Regional Director UNICEF Regional Office f
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Mansukh Mandaviya chairs meeting with Tamil Nadu health officials, discuss
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday chaired a meeting with the Regional Director of Directorate General of Health Services and other health officials in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and discussed the COVID-19 situation.
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Emergence of variants reminder that pandemic far from over: WHO Regional D
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, South-East Asia Region Director, World Health Organisation (WHO), on Friday said that the risk of COVID-19 remains high globally, adding that the emergence of variants is a reminder that the pandemic is far from over.
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Can't dismiss as 'mild', Omicron spreading faster than other Covid-19 vari
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Amid concerns arising out of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region on Thursday said that Omicron appears to be spreading faster than any other previous variant and added that one should
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South-East Asia Region should strengthen COVID-19 response measures to cur
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] December 3 (ANI): As India confirmed two cases of Omicron, the World Health Organization on Friday said that countries in South-East Asia Region should further strengthen COVID-19 response measures to curtail the spread of the virus and its variants.
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Omicron cases found in South-East Asia region 'not unexpected' in view of
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] December 2 (ANI): As the Union Health Ministry confirmed two COVID-19 cases of Omicron (B.1.1.529) in Karnataka on Thursday, World Health Organization (WHO) said that it was 'not unexpected' in South-East Asia Region while emphasising the need for all countries to step u
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WHO says rising pace of Covid-19 transmission in Europe of 'grave concern'
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 4 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge on Thursday raised "grave concern" about the rising pace of Covid transmission in Europe.
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