A state with a per capita income well below the national average has, over the years, surprised demographers and public health researchers with faster-than-expected gains on child mortality, institutional births, and school enrolment.
India’s healthcare system has yet to match the country’s claimed growth in economy and living standards.
The World Health Organization’s decision to classify the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as an international public health emergency is not merely a medical alert.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that it is monitoring and supporting a public health incident aboard a cruise vessel sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, where a hantavirus outbreak has been confirmed, resulting in three deaths and multiple suspected infections.
The risk of transmission of Nipah virus remains low, and there is no need for any travel or trade restrictions, said the World Health Organisation, noting that it is closely monitoring the deadly virus cases in India.
India is set to host the prestigious WHO–International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH) workshop from August 6 to 8 at Ghaziabad.
Current clinical guidelines for managing SCD in pregnancy have been largely based on protocols from high-income countries, the WHO noted.
On May 22, the world celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity, at a time when the disappearance of species is at the highest rate in human history.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation on Mann Ki Baat, stated that an MoU was signed in the presence of WHO Director General and his “friend Tulsi Bhai” (Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus).
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday officially declared India free of trachoma — a leading infectious cause of blindness — at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA-78) held in Geneva.
