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The World Health Organization (WHO), has warned African countries leaders against easing restrictions against the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO is concerned as most African countries are rolling back Covid-19 surveillance and quarantine measures. It says this is especially “worrisome in a continent that still has the lowest rates of vaccination … Read More » Cameroon: Death toll rises as cholera continues to wreak havoc The Cameroonian Ministry of Public Health said that as of February 14, 1,242 cases of cholera have been detected in the country, including 35 deaths. “Five of the ten regions in Cameroon are affected by the disease,” the ministry said. It was first detected in January in the South West … Read More » COVID-19: South Africa creates its own Moderna vaccine South African laboratory Afrigen Biologics said on Thursday it had used the publicly available sequence of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to create its own version of the vaccine. According to the Director of the society, Petro Terblanche, the vaccine could be tested in humans before the end of this … Read More » COVID-19: “The pandemic is far from being finished”- WHO boss The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned on Tuesday that the covid-19 pandemic is far from over as the Omicron variant seems to be less dangerous for leaders. Dr Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus said the Covid-19 “is far from over,” and warned against the idea that the Omicron … Read More » WHO urges countries to take ‘rational’ measures against Omicron risk The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, voiced concern on Tuesday that some states are introducing blanket measures aimed at the Omicron coronavirus variant that he said were “not evidence-based or effective on their own”. Dr Tedros said these were penalising southern African countries that reported … Read More » The Gates Foundation to provide $ 4 million for syringe manufacturing in Africa The Gates Foundation will offer $4 million to address the looming shortage of syringes for Covid-19 vaccination in Africa. This comes amid warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the shortage of crucial commodities such as syringes was slowing the rollout of Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the continent. Kenyan … Read More » Covid-19: 5 million people have already died of the disease worldwide The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the death of more than 5 million people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease at the end of 2019. This assessment, which takes into account the deaths recorded by the national health authorities, only represents a part of … Read More » More than 100,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 – WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 100,000 health workers have died since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and that millions are still unvaccinated. WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the situation an indictment of the countries and companies that controlled global supply, and said members of the … Read More » WHO says horrified by sexual abuse of its staff in DRC and apologizes The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is horrified by the findings of an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse by staff working in the Democratic Republic of Congo during an Ebola outbreak, BBC News reports. The allegations came to light a year ago following an investigation by the New … Read More » WHO reveals its plan to deal with Ebola in Ivory Coast The tracing of people who came into contact with Ivory Coast’s first Ebola case in 25 years has been completed, says the World Health Organization (WHO). “The woman travelled across the country for five days on arrival from Guinea before she was confirmed to have contracted Ebola”, BBC quoted the … Read More »
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असोज २२, नवलपरासी विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले चार कफ सिरपको (खोकीको औषधि) प्रयोगमा अन्तराष्ट्रिय चेतावनी जारी गरेको छ । गाम्बिया देशमा भएको ६६ बालबालिकाको मृत्युसगँ उक्त कफ सिरपको प्रयोग सम्बन्धित भएको हुन सक्ने पाईए पछि उक्त चेतावनी जारी गरिएको हो । कफ सिरपको प्रयोगले मृगौलाको समस्या तथा ६६ बालबालिकाको मृत्यु भएको हुन सक्ने अनुमान गरिएको छ । उक्त कफ सिरपहरु भारतीय कम्पनी मेडन फर्मास्युटिकल्सले (Maiden Pharmaceutical) उत्पादन गरेको र उक्त कम्पनीले उक्त औषधिहरुको सुरक्षित प्रयोगको विश्वसनीयता प्रदान गर्न नसकेको विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले जनाएको छ । प्रतिबन्धित औषधिहरु निम्न छन् Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup तथा Magrip N Cold Syrup. विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले आफ्नो वेवसाईटमा प्रकाशित गरेको चेतावनीमा गाम्बियामा उक्त औषधिको प्रयोग भएको पाईएको तथा अन्य देश तथा क्षेत्रमा समेत उक्त औषधिको प्रयोग भएको हुन सक्ने जनाएको छ । उक्त औषधिहरुको प्रयोगले, विशेष गरी बालबालिकामा, गम्भीर स्वास्थ्य समस्या तथा मृत्यु समेत हुन सक्ने चेतावनी दिईएको छ । विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले प्रयोगशाला परीक्षणमा उक्त औषधिहरुमा अस्विकार्य मात्रामा Diethylene glycol तथा Ethylene glycol पदार्थहरुको प्रयोग भएको पाईएको जनाएको छ । उक्त पदार्थहरु विषाक्त प्रकृतिका तथा तिनले पेट दुख्ने, वान्ता हुने, पखाला चल्ने, पिशाब बन्द हुने, टाउको दुख्ने, मृगौलाको समस्या साथै मृत्यु पनि हुन सक्ने विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले जनाएको छ । गाम्बियामा गत महिनामा दर्जनौ बालबालिकाको मृत्यु भएपछि गरिएको अनुसन्धानबाट यी तथ्यहरु पत्ता लागेका हुन् । विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले उक्त विषाक्त पदार्थहरुको प्रयोग उक्त कम्पनीले उत्पादन गर्ने अन्य औषधिमा पनि भएको हुन सक्ने तथा ति औषधिहरु भारत भित्र तथा अन्य देशहरुमा समेत निर्यात भएको हुन सक्ने जनाएको छ । विश्व स्वास्थ्य सङ्गठनले जारी गरेको चेतावनी यो लिङ्कमा Medical Product Alert N°6/2022: Substandard (contaminated) paediatric medicines (who.int) पढ्न सकिन्छ ।