KHOST: Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specialising in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women – her death or her child's. She lay dazed, surrounded by the unfamiliar
NEW YORK: A new Covid vaccine is due out next month, but health experts and analysts say it is likely to be coolly received even as hospitalisations from "Eris", a variant of the Omicron form of the coronavirus, rise around the country. Some public health experts
NEW DELHI: India has suspended a drugmaker's manufacturing licence after the World Health Organization flagged contamination in its cough syrups found in the Mashall Islands and Micronesia in April, the government told the parliament on Wednesday. Indian regulators are inspecting drugmakers after cough syrups made in
United Nations: The World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a “global health emergency”. At a news conference in Geneva, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he made the announcement with “great hope”. The shift in status “does
United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of children to miss out on routine vaccines and countries must act now to restore essential immunization coverage to a least 2019 levels, the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, has said. Under the banner of ‘The
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has contradicted the findings and observations of the committee formed by the Indian government to probe the deaths of 70 children in the Gambia which were linked to syrups made by an Indian firm, Maiden Pharmaceuticals. On January 24,
New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an alert warning against the use of two Indian cough syrups blamed for the deaths of at least 20 children in Uzbekistan. The WHO said the products, manufactured by India's Marion Biotech, were "substandard" and that the
Geneva: The World Health Organization recommended not using two cough syrups made by an Indian pharmaceutical firm after the company’s product was linked with deaths in Uzbekistan. On December 27, Uzbekistan’s health ministry had said that 18 children died after consuming Dok 1 Max syrup manufactured
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) said it hoped that Covid-19 would no longer be a public health emergency in 2023, as it urged China to share information that could pinpoint how the pandemic started.
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) announced to provide anti-diphtheria serum as dozens of children died following a surge in the deadly infectious disease.