Tag: World Health Organisation

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has triggered its emergency management system in response to an earthquake in Myanmar and was mobilising its logistics hub in Dubai to prepare trauma injury ...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced that a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza is planned to begin on Sunday, September 1, 2024. According to WHO, Israel’s military and ...

WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has predicted that the number of new cancer cases globally will reach over 35 million in 2050, 77 percent higher than the ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization has hailed Gaza’s medical workers who continue to work under increasingly dire circumstances in the enclave. He noted that the ...

A joint UN humanitarian assessment team has visited Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital "to assess the situation on the ground, conduct a rapid situational analysis, assess medical priorities, and establish logistics options ...

It is said, “Hygiene is two thirds of health.” This saying underscores the essence of hygiene in maintaining good health. Simply put, poor hygiene equals poor health. As such, when ...

The death toll in Libya's flooded city of Derna has soared to 11,300. This marks an alarming increase as health authorities previously put the death toll in Derna at 5,500. ...

Accra, the capital city of Ghana has been named among cities across the globe with high pollution risk, according to an environmental risk report by Verisk Maplecroft, a global risk ...

The International Federation of the Red Cross has;revealed that coronavirus cases have;exploded in Asia in the past two weeks with over 5.9 million new infections. The federation noted that more ...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that the number of new Covid-19 cases globally is approaching the “highest rate of infection” that “we ...