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Polio vaccination campaign to resume in northern Gaza: WHO-UNICEF
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The third phase of the polio vaccination campaign is set to begin tomorrow in part of the northern Gaza Strip after being postponed from October 23, 2024 due to the lack of access and assured, comprehensive humanitarian pauses, intense bombardment, and mass evacuation orders. These condit
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Polio vaccination campaign to resume today in northern Gaza
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
A third phase of the polio vaccination campaign is set to begin today in part of the northern Gaza Strip after being postponed from October 23 due to a lack of access and assured, comprehensive humanitarian pauses, intense bombardment, and mass evacuation orders.
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Lahore becomes the most polluted city in the world
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
With Air Quality Index (AQI) touching the mark 708, Lahore yet again, topped the world map in the list of most polluted cities of the world, reported Dawn.
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National Regulatory Authority of India meets WHO international standards f
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), along with the National Regulatory Authority of India (NRA) and affiliated institutions, has been found to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) published indicators for a functional vaccine regulatory system.
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India has eliminated Trachoma as a public health problem: WHO
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
India has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), becoming the third country in the South-East Asia Region to achieve this milestone
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Launching 'UAE stands with Lebanon' campaign, UAE, in cooperation with WHO
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Following the directives of the UAE President to provide an urgent USD 100 million relief package to the people of Lebanon, the UAE, in cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO), dispatched on Friday an aircraft carrying 40 tonnes of urgent medical aid to Lebanon
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"Goal is to raise awareness about importance of patient safety in healthca
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
World Patient Safety Day, marked annually on September 17, was established by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2019, following the adoption of resolution WHA72.6 by the World Health Assembly. The resolution stresses the global importance of patient safety and calls for action to reduce
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WHO Director-General thanks UAE President for major contribution to polio
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday took to his official X (formerly Twitter) account to express his deep gratitude to the United Arab Emirates and President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for the contribution of USD 5 mill
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WHO calls for increased surveillance, sharing of data, vaccines to combat
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
A day after Sweden confirmed the first case of more contagious monkeypox variant outside Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged affected countries to work together to tackle the monkeypox outbreak and called on all nations to address
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WHO declares mpox public health emergency of global concern
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared mpox a public emergency of international concern. This comes amid a rapid surge in spread of the disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and its detection in neighbouring countries as well.
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WHO calls emergency meeting to discuss surge in mpox cases from Congo
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called an emergency meeting to discuss the surge in mpox cases spreading from Congo.
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WHO commends UAE's urgent initiative to evacuate 85 sick, severely injured
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean expressed gratitude to the UAE for announcing an urgent initiative, in partnership with World Health Organisation (WHO), to evacuate 85 sick and severely injured Palestinians, including cancer patients in need of extensive treatment, ac
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