Tag: WHO
Minister calls for stronger regional cooperation to fight disease and disability
Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar said on Tuesday that Pakistan Government had launched a major initiative to provide universal health coverage...
WHO and NIH spar over land dispute
A dispute of land has worsened between the National Institute of Health (NIH) and World Health Organization (WHO) as the latter has illegally occupied...
WHO decides to take polio matters in own hands
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed dissatisfaction over the anti polio campaign being launched by Rawalpindi District Health Department and decided to directly...
Six more polio cases confirmed
Four polio cases were reported from FATA and one each from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
Five new polio cases surface, tally mounts to 253
Five news polio cases surfaced across the country on Tuesday, taking the tally of polio patients reported this year to 253.
The National Instituted of...
WHO eyes mass Ebola vaccines by mid-2015
Hundreds of thousands of Ebola vaccine doses could be rolled out to West Africa by mid-2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday,...
Tarar elected WHO Eastern Mediterranean committee vice chair
Minister of State for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar was elected unanimously as Vice Chair of the Regional Committee of World Health Organization...
Fatwas fail to curb polio surge
Polio is on the rise in Pakistan despite two dozen decrees issued by various national and international religious organisations as well as opinions of...
Polio sirens sounded as authorities lost in translation
Sources say govt focused on advertisements in posh low-risk localities with communications strategy incompatible with high-risk suburban areas
With the persistent detection of poliovirus at...
Ebola death toll passes 3, 300: WHO
The death toll in the world's worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,300, with the virus killing almost half of the more than...
Ebola virus has killed more than 3,000 people: WHO
More than 3,000 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as the deadly virus showed...
Ebola cases rising faster than ability to contain them: WHO
West Africa’s Ebola outbreak is running ahead of health authorities’ ability to contain it, particularly in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and...
WHO declares Ebola epidemic a global emergency
The World Health Organisation on Friday declared the Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of west Africa an international health emergency and appealed for global aid...
WHO urges ministry to ban tobacco marketing campaigns
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has strongly urged the ministry of national health services, regulation and coordination to comprehensively ban all tobacco marketing campaigns...
WHO polio recommendations only temporary: Nima
World Health Organization representative in Pakistan Nima Saeed Abid has said that travel recommendations for Pakistan are meant to control international spread of polio...
WHO commends Pakistan’s efforts to curb export of polio virus
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed satisfaction over the initial steps taken by the Pakistan government to stop poliovirus from spreading outside its...
New Delhi has dirtiest air: WHO
An effort by the World Health Organization to measure pollution in cities around the world has found New Delhi admits to having the dirtiest...
