Mumbai, July 17 (IANS) Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora on Friday endorsed the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) intensified enforcement campaign against food safety and public health violations, while calling for greater transparency through a public digital dashboard to track hygiene and compliance standards.Citing World Health Organisation (WHO) data, Deora noted that foodborne diseases and public health failures lead to 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths globally every year…
Latest WHO News & Updates
Kinshasa, July 16 (IANS) Humanitarian workers involved in the response to the Ebola outbreak were evacuated early Thursday after violence erupted overnight at an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).According to local security and civil society sources, the violence broke out following the death of a pregnant woman at Nyakunde General Hospital, which serves as an Ebola treatment centre in Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak.Angered members of the loc…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Incorporating standardised health terminologies will ensure Ayush interventions become an integral part of broader digital health ecosystems, matching modern health informatics standards, according to Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush.The Ayush Ministry has launched a five-day workshop on WHO-ICHI Framework for Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani systems, which marks an important step towards positioning India’s traditional medicine systems within the global di…
Addis Ababa, July 11 (IANS) Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director-General Jean Kaseya and World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are set to visit the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) next week, as part of a joint mission aimed at accelerating outbreak response.This came after a meeting between heads of the two organisations in Geneva, Switzerland, where discussions focu…
Mumbai, July 8 (IANS) Shares of Cupid Limited plunged 11 per cent on Wednesday after hitting a record high of Rs 226 earlier in the session, marking the stock’s biggest one-day decline in six months. Heavy profit booking erased early gains, with the stock falling as much as 20 per cent intra-day before recovering some losses to close at Rs 197 per share.The sharp decline marked one of the stock’s steepest single-day falls in 2026 and its biggest intra-day crash since January 2, when it had also …
Gandhinagar, July 5 (IANS) Gujarat has moved closer to developing its first region-specific anti-snake venom after the state’s Snake Research Institute (SRI) at Dharampur in Valsad district handed over freeze-dried venom from four venomous snake species found in the state to a licensed manufacturer, a step aimed at improving treatment outcomes for snakebite victims. The venom was supplied last week by the Snake Research Institute, which functions under the Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation (G…
Kinshasa, July 5 (IANS) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported 1,528 confirmed Ebola cases, including 492 deaths, as the country’s latest outbreak continues to expand.According to a situation report released Saturday by the DRC public health authorities, a total of 239 patients have recovered, while 628 confirmed patients are currently in isolation or hospitalisation. Authorities have also identified 185 suspected cases, Xinhua news agency reported.The report said weekly confirm…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) NITI Aayog, in collaboration with PwC, has released a report titled Strategic Roadmap for Making Ayurveda Global that sets out a phased plan to transform Ayurveda from a largely India-centric traditional system into a globally recognised healthcare framework by 2047.The report observes that Ayurveda today enjoys formal recognition in nearly 30 countries, with varying degrees of licensing and integration into national health policies.India has a robust ecosystem with over…
Nairobi, June 30 (IANS) India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Adarsh Swaika, on Tuesday led the country’s delegation at the Informal Heads of Delegations (HODs) meeting in Nairobi ahead of the next session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop the instrument on plastic pollution.“He underlined several key principles on behalf of Indian delegation while conveying India’s readiness to engage constructively towards a balanced …
Jaipur, June 28 (IANS) What began as a series of unexplained maternal deaths in Rajasthan has now snowballed into a nationwide drug safety investigation. Seven women, who had recently given birth, lost their lives over a span of less than two months, prompting the Union Health Ministry to cancel the manufacturing licence of the company producing the Oxytocin injection suspected to be linked to the cases.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also stepped in, seeking a detailed report from the I…