Tag: World Health Organization

By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's surprise decision to ban wheat exports has raised concerns about potential curbs on rice exports as well, prompting rice traders to step up purchases and place atypical orders for longer-dated deliveries. Government ...

Last week, I talked to Jarno Habicht, the WHO’s Ukraine representative, as he was receiving health supplies for a warehouse in Lviv. He spoke about the high cost the Russian invasion is having on the Ukrainian people, the damage caused to hospitals, and the mental and physical impact the ...

A look at the top headlines of the day:No-confidence motion against Imran Khan rejected, Pakistan president dissolves National Assembly: Earlier in the day, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri dismissed a no-confidence motion against Khan. Suri said that the motion had contravened Article 5 of the country’s Constitution, which ...

Investigations show infection is linked to a strain circulating in Pakistan’s Sindh province as WHO sends assistance.Malawi has declared an outbreak of polio after a young child in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, developed the disease in the first case of the wild polio virus in Africa in more than ...

Geneva: Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the Covid-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, threatening human health and the environment, a World Health Organization report said on Tuesday (February 1, 2022). The material, a portion of ...

#Pakistan News Poorer countries that have the highest number of people with cardiovascular diseases are still struggling to reduce the intake of trans fat present in food while richer countries are making progress in eliminating the harmful dietary fat, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. Trans fat is ...

KABUL: Afghanistan's economy has crashed since the Taliban's take over of Kabul in mid-August, plunging the country into one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, said a media report. Writing in New York Times, Christina Goldbaum said that "three months into the Taliban's rule, Afghanistan's economy has all but ...

#Pakistan News The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday, the first nationwide campaign to fight the disease in three years. Naikwali Shah Momim, WHO's Emergency Operations Coordinator for the polio program, told Reuters the campaign had started in various ...

The annual Nobel Peace Prize shines the brightest of lights on the person or group thought to have done most to promote peace. But guessing who it will be is just a stab in the dark. That's because the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee never drops ...

ISLAMABAD, PakistanThe UN's Central Emergency Response Fund on Wednesday released $45 million in life-saving support to help prevent Afghanistan’s health-care system from collapse.The announcement was made by Martin Griffiths, the under-secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. In a statement, he warned that in Afghanistan medicines, medical supplies ...