WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is preparing for the worst case scenario in an Ebola outbreak in a remote area of Congo, including spread to a major town, WHO Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response Peter Salama said on Friday. A medical staff holds a package of …
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has published the long-awaited Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill. The publishing paves the way for much stricter tobacco laws that will for the first time bring e-cigarettes into the regulatory fold. The bill was approved by Cabinet in April and published in …
The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture decided to ban agricultural imports from South Africa over the outbreak of deadly listeria bacteria in South African agricultural products, official MENA news agency reported Thursday. The Egyptian ministry's Central Administration for Agricultural Quarantine also banned issuing any import permits related to agricultural products from …
The Federal Ministry of Health has declared the Lassa fever outbreak ravaging the country over. This is coming after four and half months of the country combating the disease in 22 states. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, in Abuja on Thursday said the announcement follows the epidemiological review by …
A hospital director says there are five new suspected cases of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo's northwestern town of Bikoro, where an outbreak of the often deadly hemorrhagic fever was declared this week. Dr Serge Ngalebato, Bikoro Hospital director, tells The Associated Press that two nurses who were in …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in an area of Congo facing an Ebola epidemic as long ago as December and the first deaths were reported in January, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, as four new suspected cases surfaced. A health worker sprays a colleague …
HOIMA- The Government, with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is conducting a campaign to vaccinate more than 360,000 people against cholera in six hotspot areas of Hoima district. The immunisation drive is part of efforts to control an ongoing cholera outbreak which has affected both refugees from the …
The National Nutrition Mission, with all its hype, is confined very much to fixing targets, and its focus does not seem to consist in addressing the causes for the high prevalence of malnutrition, stunting or wasting among children. By T.K. RAJALAKSHMI ON March 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the …
An audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India comes down heavily on the Haryana government for its lax implementation of the Beti Bachao scheme. By T.K. RAJALAKSHMI NOTWITHSTANDING the tall claims made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, a report of the Comptroller …
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is propagated by irrational use of antibiotics by healthcare practitioners and the uninformed public. This study assessed a select cohort of 504 urban Indians for their knowledge, awareness and practice of antibiotic use and AMR. Forty seven per cent were unaware of the differences between over-the-counter drugs …
In a unique initiative, SMS Medical college with TATA trusts brought Rajasthan Royals to spread awareness for cancer screening. The aim was to motivate people for screening so that cancer can be detected at early stage. It is important because, in more than 80% cases, cancer has been detected at …
Doctors emphasise need for protocol for newborn intensive care As many as 13,541 children under the age of five died in the State in a span of 11 months, a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed. A study of 11,532 deaths between April 2017 and February 2018 by the …
Nine godowns sealed during joint raids in Gudivada and Machilipatnam In a joint operation, officials of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Vigilance and Enforcement and the municipal authorities, conducted raids on fruit godowns at different places in Krishna district on Wednesday. They seized huge quantity of …
According to the proposed draft of Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2018, the packaged food companies will have to declare nutritional information such as calories (energy), total sugar and salt, total fat and trans-fat, per serving on the front of the pack. The food labels will also …
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are essential for sustainable development because of their links to gender equality and women’s wellbeing, their impact on maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and their roles in shaping future economic development and environmental sustainability. Yet progress towards fulfilling SRHR for all has …
Though the government is spending a fortune on propagating the use of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for children suffering from diarrhoea, doctors at government dispensaries in Punjab and Haryana are giving antibiotics, instead of ORS. “Drug prescription behaviour: A cross-sectional study in public health facilities in Punjab and Haryana” conducted …
Surat: The provisions in the food safety law are not enough in themselves to contain the sources of water-borne diseases in the Diamond City. Penalties are very few after samples are taken for testing by health officials of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and adulteration is found. During the last …
AHMEDABAD: For providing medical facilities on islands along the Gujarat coast, the Gujarat high court has said that these places can be considered as “difficult areas” and norms for providing primary health centres (PHCs) can be modified for people living in harsh conditions. In April, the high court had suggested …
This is also an alarm bell as about half of the surveyed population was young (between the ages of 25 to 44 years only) Nearly half of a group of healthy individuals living in a Delhi slum were found to be overweight, while 17.2 per cent were obese, according to …
These immunisation programmes have various degrees of community engagement. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data for 2015-16 shows that 62 per cent of Indian children aged 12-23 months are fully immunised. Although the coverage has increased by 18.5 percentage points in the past decade, India has a long …
