https___en.africatopsuccess.com_tag_tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus_.xml
https___shreekhabar.com_2022_10_08_7194__1.xml
1.1 1.2 1.3 2.1 3.1 3.2 3.3 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2 7.3 8.1 9.1 9.2 9.3 10.1 11.1 11.2 11.3 12.1 13.1 13.2 13.3 14.1 15.1 15.2 15.3 16.1 17.1 17.2 17.3 18.1 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4
The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with experts to come up with a new name for monkeypox, its director general , Dr Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, said. It comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising” name for the virus … Read More » COVID-19: Moderna to set up its first vaccine factory in this African country The American vaccine manufacturer Moderna announced on Monday the construction of its first African vaccine factory in Kenya, after signing a preliminary agreement with this country which provides for the production of 500 million doses per year. The company plans to invest $500 million in this factory, which will produce … 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 » 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 » Good news as the world now has a vaccine against malaria The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly African children. The move follows a review of a pilot program rolled out since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than … 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 » Covid-19: Israel persists with third dose, despite WHO call Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) call for a moratorium, the Israeli government on Thursday continued to administer third doses of the anti-covid vaccine to people aged 60 and over. President Isaac Herzog, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Nafatli Bennett’s mother received this third dose, a booster shot … Read More » WHO chief urges Tanzanian leader to tackle Covid-19 The boss of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has sent his congratulations to Samia Suluhu Hassan, the Tanzanian new president, saying he hopes they can work together to tackle coronavirus. “I look forward to working with you to keep people safe from Covid-19, end the pandemic and … Read More » Ghana receives first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine Ghanean authoritiies received the first batch of Covid-19 vaccine doses distributed by the global vaccine sharing initiative, Covax. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef, a plane carrying 600,000 doses of the of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine landed in Accra, the capital on Wednesday. “These 600,000 Covax vaccines are … Read More »
1.1 2.1 3.1 4.1 5.1 6.1 7.1 8.1
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 ।