Colombo, July 13 (IANS) The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health’s secretary, Anil Jasinghe, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an Indian grant to supply state-of-the-art medical equipment to Base Hospital, Deniyaya.”Partnering for climate-resilient healthcare in India and Sri Lanka. Glad to sign an MoU with the Secretary, Ministry of Health Dr Anil Jasinghe today for a SLR 600M Indian grant to supply state-of-the-art m…
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Shimla, July 9 (IANS) Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J.P. Nadda will lay the foundation stone of the ICMR Centre for High Altitude Medicine and Public Health Research in Keylong in Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh on July 11, government officials said on Thursday. The centre, being set up by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, will upgrade ICMR’s existing field station in Keylong into a full-fledged, multidisciplin…
Kampala, July 6 (IANS) Uganda has contained the spread of Ebola nearly two months after the outbreak was declared following the importation of cases from the neighbouring Congo, a senior health official said.Diana Atwine, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health, said on Sunday in a post on social media platform X that the outbreak had been contained through the treatment of all imported confirmed cases and those they infected, the tracing and quarantine of contacts, and the provision of th…
Rome, June 29 (IANS) The number of ‘red alert’ cities in Italy continues to increase due to extreme heat. On Monday, 22 cities were put on maximum alert and on Tuesday, the number would rise to 25, Italian news agency Adnkronos reported.Record heat is not letting go of Italy for now, nor Europe. Even if forecasts speak of thunderstorms and falling temperatures starting from Wednesday, July 1, the heat continues to hit the country,According to the latest update of the Ministry of Health’s heatwav…
Juba, June 26 (IANS) South Sudan on Friday urged foreign governments to lift Ebola-related travel and visa restrictions imposed on its citizens, saying the measures are affecting those who need to travel abroad for medical treatment and education.”There is no Ebola here. No one is dying here. But people are now dying because they are unable to travel abroad for medical treatment,” Francis Oromo, undersecretary in the Ministry of Health, told a joint press conference with the World Health Organis…
Kinshasa, June 6 (IANS) The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 452, including 82 deaths, according to the latest situation report released by the country’s health ministry.According to the report, health authorities reported 71 new confirmed cases on June 4, including 21 deaths, in Ituri and North Kivu provinces, a sign of rapid and continuing community transmission amid the outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.A total of 2…
Kampala, June 5 (IANS) Uganda has confirmed three new Ebola cases, bringing the cumulative number of infections to 19 since the outbreak was declared on May 15, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.In an update posted on social media platform X, the ministry said the three new cases were contacts of previously confirmed patients and had been under institutional quarantine.The ministry also reported one new death involving a Congolese national, Xinhua news agency.According to the ministry, of th…
Kampala, June 2 (IANS) Uganda has confirmed six new cases of Ebola, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the ongoing outbreak to 15, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.According to the ministry’s latest Ebola update, the six new cases were identified among contacts of previously confirmed patients.The ministry said 12 Ebola patients are currently admitted to treatment facilities, while two patients have been discharged after recovery, Xinhua news agency reported.The East Afri…
Rome, June 1 (IANS) Italy’s Ministry of Health has said that in a suspected case of Ebola in Cagliari, investigations are underway on a patient who returned from Congo and is now in the Sardinian capital, local media reported.The patient, symptomatic, has undergone the Ebola test, which will be analysed by Spallanzani in Rome on Sunday evening.The patient is currently in isolation at a hospital facility. The Ministry of Health stated in a note, is in contact with the local health authorities of …
Phnom Penh, May 30 (IANS) Cambodia achieved its 95-95-95 HIV treatment targets last year, and is on track to eliminate AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, the country’s Minister of Health Chheang Ra has said.The targets mean 95 per cent of the people who are living with HIV know their HIV status, 95 per cent of the people who know that they are living with HIV are on life-saving antiretroviral treatment, and 95 per cent of people who are on treatment are virally suppressed.HIV is the virus t…