WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
The WHO office in Sri Lanka has published a scientific research journal on chronic kidney disease in the North Central Province and suburbs in Sri Lanka. The journal is based on research conducted during the last 15 years, a Health Ministry spokesman said. According to the spokesman, WHO has made …
China is the world’s worst polluter but largest investor in green energy. Its rise will have as big an impact on the environment as on the world economy or politics. All industrial nations one day hit an environmental turning-point, an event that dramatises to the population the ecological consequences of …
China is the world’s worst polluter but largest investor in green energy. Its rise will have as big an impact on the environment as on the world economy or politics. All industrial nations one day hit an environmental turning-point, an event that dramatises to the population the ecological consequences of …
The inspection of water samples received from community based rural water supply schemes in the North Central Province has proved that in most cases the ground water being provided is not suitable for consumption. There are around 300 such schemes in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts. The main possible reason …
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will utilize all available resources to maintain the polio free status of Islamabad and will try to achieve 100 per cent coverage during the up-coming Polio campaign. This was stated by Chairman CDA, Nadeem Hassan Asif, while chairing a meeting of Islamabad Polio Eradication Committee …
THE death of one person in every thirty seconds from hepatitis in Asia is quite alarming. This worrying figure was disclosed on the eve of World Hepatitis Day which was observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere across the world recently. According to noted hepatologist and president of Hepatology Society, liver diseases …
Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Monday released Rs08 million to the Deputy Commissioners of each eight affected districts of Balochistan. Talking to APP, Director General, PDMA Khalid Baloch on Monday said relief activities in the flood-battered areas are being carried out on war footings. "Rs08 million has been released …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday said the death of 23 children at Chapra in Bihar after eating school meal contaminated with monocrotophos was an important reminder to speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from markets in the developing countries. Monocrotophos is an organophosphorus …
The Ministry of National Food Security and Research is gearing up to launch an awareness campaign to make farmers understand the risks of toxic substances. The move came after the FAO urged developing countries to withdraw highly hazardous pesticides from their markets. FAO says that the entire distribution and disposal …
Air pollution in China’s largest cities, as measured by the concentration of fine particulates that pose the greatest health risk, was three-times worse in the first half of the year than levels advised by the World Health Organization. The average concentration of PM2.5 particulates in 74 cities monitored by China’s …
Developing countries should speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from their markets following the death of 23 children from contaminated food in India, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. The children in the Indian state of Bihar died earlier this month after eating a …
‘Nutrition has been identified as one of the factors impacting treatment outcomes’. Health activists have suggested linking the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) with the food security programme to be launched shortly for better treatment outcomes. Good nutrition has a broader positive impact on health and the RNTCP should …
The campaign slogans of the volunteer group raising its voice against noise pollution in Gurgaon are impatient and exclamatory - "Do not honk!" "For God's sake stop honking." It's almost as though the aimless honkers of a busy road were being shouted down. But is there any other way approach …
Sri Lanka will see a possible drastic increase in smoking related deaths in the next two decades if preventive measures are not taken, WHO officials said. Smoking related deaths could reach 40,000 per year in Sri Lanka in the next two decades, Health Services Director General Dr. Palitha Mahipala said. …
For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world. Chile, one of the …
A programme will be launched to provide treated water for villagers in kidney disease prone areas in the North Central Province. The water supply will be confined to drinking and cooking. The National Water Supply and Drainage Board will implement the project under the instructions of Minister Dinesh Gunawardane. NWSDB …
LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Environment Col (R) Shuja Khanzada on Thursday announced a committee to sort out environmental issues being faced by the industry. The provincial minister was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry. LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar gave a detailed briefing to the minister on …
The Health Ministry yesterday said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had extended its fullest support for Sri Lanka’s battle against tobacco and smoking. The spokesman for the Health Ministry, Dharma Wanninayake, said that two WHO representatives namely, Programme Manager of WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative, Dr. Armando Peruga, and Senior …
KARACHI: World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging governments, in connection with World Hepatitis Day on July 28, to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can cause severe liver infections and lead to 1.4 million deaths every year. Some of these hepatitis viruses, most notably types B and C, can …
BANGALORE: Bangalore is thirsting for water. But the growing need appears to have few solutions. In the next few years, the per capita availability of water in the city will be 73 litres of water per day (LPCD), much less than what the World Health Organization prescribes. Nine million Bangaloreans …
