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Report: 10 ways to protect against a global health catastrophe

The Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola has made 10 recommendations for changes, based on lessons learned from the West African Ebola outbreak and aimed at protecting against future devastating health emergencies.The panel, convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the changes it …

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Henk Bekedam is the new World Health Organisation representative to India

UPDATE Senior public health specialist Henk Bekedam has taken charge as the World Health Organization representative to India.. He is  a Dutch national and a medical doctor by training. He has served as a WHO representative in China and Egypt and Director of Health Sector Development in the WHO Western Pacific Region Office in Manila …

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16 people suffered partial vision loss after undergoing cataract surgery

UPDATE A charitable society ‘Sarv Kalyan Sewarth Samithi’ conducted a medical camp on eye cataract surgeries for patients on November 24. At least 16 people suffered partial vision loss after undergoing surgery .Haryana Health Minister, Anil Vij has ordered a departmental probe into the incident. According to the Senior Medical Officer in the area, the …

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World AIDS day was on December 1 -The government promises more funding for HIV treatment in India

Despite major advances, HIV/AIDS remains one of the world’s most significant public health challenges. World AIDS Day (December 1) is used to unite people in the fight against HIV and to show their support for people living with HIV and commemorate those who have died.The member countries of the United Nations agreed last September to …

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India is now rolling out the introduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine in its routine immunisation programme; New polio case detected in New Delhi

With its last reported case of a wild polio infection dating back to January 2011, India completed the three-year mandatory period that a country needs to stay free of fresh polio infections in 2014, allowing it to be endorsed as a polio-free country. India is now introducing injectable polio vaccine (IPV) in its universal immunisation …

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Cause for alarm:Delhi’s air pollution will qualify as a public health emergency

Health Issues India has been covering stories on air pollution in Delhi, as it is a cause for alarm for all its citizens. A cause for alarm is putting it mildly. On November 27th, one of the US Embassy’s pollution-monitoring stations in New Delhi recorded a chart-breaking reading of 999 on its custom-developed Air Quality …

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India unable to meet the MDG target on infant mortality; Pneumonia is the biggest cause

India has failed to meet the MDG of reducing infant mortality to 52 per 1,000 for 2015. Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) district secretary P S N Murthy said that WHO target could not be achieved and the biggest culprit for it was pneumonia. World Pneumonia Day is annually held on November 12 to raise …

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