GENEVA: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has stated on Friday (28th March, 2025) that the Organisation was pondering over shrinking its budget by 21% due to the withdrawal of USA, its biggest donor. WHO will have to reduce its reach and make cutbacks due to USA’s decision to freeze all such contributions and foreign aids. […]
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GAZA: Margaret Harris, Spokesperson of WHO, while commenting on the reports apropos Kamal Adwan Hospital being evacuated by Israeli Military has said Friday (27th Dec, 2024) that they were witnessing the targeting of civilians and health system here. Calling it a punishment for the population Margaret Harris held: “What Gaza’s hospitals are exposed to is […]
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KARACHI: World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) is being observed on Tuesday (10th November, 2024) all over the globe. Endorsed by WHO the WSPD was established in 2003 International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). In order to augment awareness apropos the significance of assuaging stigma and initiate dialogues to contain the incidences of suicide, the triennial […]
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GENEVA: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, DG of WHO, talking to the journalists at a Presser held here on Wednesday (12th June, 2024) has informed that more than eight thousand children aged under five had been treated for acute malnutrition in Gaza since the Hamas-Israel war commenced. According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus twenty-eight of those 8000 kids […]
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RIYADH: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has termed the global inequity in health sector as the first and foremost problem and called upon bridging the widening gap between the Global South and the Global North. RIYADH: Expressing his views in a session of the World Economic Forum regarding global health, PM Shehbaz Sharif said the Covid-19 […]
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GENEVA: Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals, the head of the WHO said Saturday (30th March, 2024). “With only 10 hospitals minimally functional across the whole of Gaza, thousands of patients continue to be deprived of health […]
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