Geneva, April 10: The fatality rate of COVID-19 is estimated to be 10 times higher than influenza, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Speaking at a Mission briefing on COVID-19 from Geneva on Thursday, the WHO chief said that so far, more than 1.3 million people have[Read More…]
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UN chief defends WHO after Trump threat
Trump on Tuesday criticized the WHO’s response to COVID-19 and threatened to freeze US funding for it
WHO Health Alert on WhatsApp to debunk COVID-19 myths
This will also serve government decision-makers by providing the latest numbers and situation reports
Coronavirus: WHO advices to avoid taking ibuprofen if symptomatic
hus, the World Health Organization has recommended the people to people who have COVID–19 symptoms to avoid taking ibuprofen, after French health official warned about it on his social media account.
Pollution killed 6,00,000 children in a year in India: WHO Report
The latest report by the World Health Organization(WHO) has come up with some heartbreaking revelations. According to the report, titled, ‘Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air,’ 93%(1.3 billion) of the children under the age of 15 years breath polluted air which puts their health and development at an[Read More…]
With over 1 lakh contaminated vaccines, India’s ‘polio-free’ status at risk
The Union Health Ministry on Monday claimed it had identified hundreds of children who received contaminated polio vaccine in states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana. As per the local media reports, police arrested the managing director of Bio-Med after routine testing which revealed it had made and shipped some 150,000[Read More…]
Indians drinking more: Alcohol intake doubles in a decade
Indians have started drinking more as compared to 2005. The alcohol consumption in India has more than doubled. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the per capita alcohol consumption has increased from 2.4 litres in 2005 to 5.7 litres in 2016. The report suggests 4.2 litres is being consumed[Read More…]
TB continue to be world’s deadliest infectious disease: WHO
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease although global efforts have averted an estimated 54 million tuberculosis (TB) deaths since 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday. WHO, in its latest 2018 Global TB Report, says countries are still not doing enough to end TB by 2030[Read More…]
Swachh Bharat Mission can avert up to 3 lakh deaths: World Health Organization
New Delhi: Lauding India’s effort towards safe sanitation services, World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said that Swachh Bharat Mission can avert up to 3 lakh deaths due to diarrhoea and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) by October 2019. As the initial results of a WHO modelling study on the health impact[Read More…]
Alarming: One in 10 medicines fake; diseases becoming untreatable, says WHO
According to WHO, these medicines not only fail to treat or prevent diseases but can also cause serious illness or even death. “Substandard and falsified medicines particularly affect the most vulnerable communities,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General. The report highlighted that since 2013, the WHO has received 1,500[Read More…]
Over 15,000 new cases of TB detected: Health Minister
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Thursday said that under the government’s initiative, over 15,000 more tuberculosis (TB) cases have been detected. “We have already completed two campaigns covering 257 districts and screened over 30 million vulnerable persons and detected over 15,000 fresh TB cases. We are planning the next[Read More…]
Zika Virus in India: WHO confirms 3 cases in Ahmedabad
Threatening the health of many, the Zika virus disease has reached India. Notably, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed its first three cases in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. Laboratory tests conducted in India, authorised by the WHO, said that all the 3 cases, including that of a pregnant woman, were reported from[Read More…]
Mental Illness – A Call to Action!
With words like “depressed”, we casually make references to mental health in daily conversation. However, we don’t realise how prevalent mental illness is in our lives. Per a 2016 survey (NIMHANS) 10.6% of India’s population, or a staggering 13 crore people have a diagnosable mental health condition. Take a close[Read More…]
More than 1 in 4 child deaths a year attributed to unhealthy environment: WHO
Environmental pollutants cost an estimated 1.7 million lives among children under 5 every year, according to World Health Organization reports. The report attributed the death of more than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years to unhealthy environments such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe[Read More…]
History: India taken off polio-endemic list
Gujarat ignores WHO warning, Polio virus detected in sewerage in Ahmedabad
Despite the WHO warning about the return of Vaccine-Derived Type 2 Polio Virus (VDPV2), some of the blood samples collected on August 30 in Ahmedabad city tested positive for Sabin-like type 2 polio virus. Earlier, World Health Organization had warned Gujarat and Telangana about the return of the polio virus.[Read More…]
Gwalior, Raipur more polluted than New Delhi, claims WHO data
It seems Chhattisgarh’s Raipur is more polluted than the national capital, a World Health Organisation report released on Friday said. Similarly, Gwalior has also been included in the list of city more polluted than Delhi. The organization has examined air pollution level in around 1600 cities across the world, which[Read More…]
India may allow HIV self-testing in privacy of one’s home
For the first time, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended HIV self-testing in the privacy of one’s home using HIV kit. This shift can bring about a major breakthrough in HIV treatment by improving access to diagnosis. Although India does not permit HIV self-test currently, the UN agency’s guidance[Read More…]
Fears of ageing may cause premature death, says UN report
Being afraid of growing old may shorten your life, the UN health agency said on Thursday, as new data highlighted the widespread prevalence of ageist attitudes worldwide. In a first-of-its-kind survey released by the World Health Organization, 60 percent of respondents said they believed older people “were not respected.” Attitudes[Read More…]
Alarming: 75% of casualties due to air pollution in India, says WHO
Majority of deaths in India is not caused by diseases but due to air pollution. Air pollution is killing nearly 8,00,000 people annually in the South East Asian Region with India alone accounting for over 75% of the casualties caused by cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer, according to a new[Read More…]