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Nepal - a country of 28 million people has seven medical professionals for every 10,000 people according to WHO

Situation under control, ministry claims

Most adults in Africa have at least one risk factor

The aim of the launch is to reiterate the government’s commitment towards achieving the health goals

Directs EDOs to personally monitor immunisation drive

There are more than 2,500 such permanent teams working in high-risk areas

Removing the international emergency designation will put Zika in a class with other diseases, such as dengue

In January 2016, at least 19 people died of flu

Doctors of WHO took samples from the sewage last month

43 visually impaired individuals have been given jobs in six months

Gaps in reporting, coverage and funding remain, warns WHO

Patients complain authorities have failed to implement  card system

Before vaccination became widespread around the globe, measles killed about 2.6 million people per year

The director general is the WHO’s chief technical and administrative officer, and oversees international health work

Commit to backing poliovirus eradication efforts in the country

Pakistani companies would be able to get membership of Pharmaceuticals Inspection Cooperation Scheme

Decision will resolve administrative woes, improve cleanliness 

Most Islamabad residents unaware of anti-smoking regulations

Centre, provinces, development partners pledge to meet targets

Comprises officials from district govts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, CDA and the CADD

He was addressing a seminar in Bahawalpur

Officials said the health secretary lauded the performance of DHOs in July’s polio drive

District admin will take action to vacate residential area

Asked to hire more drug inspectors; not a single lab prequalified by WHO in Pakistan, NA committee told

Relevant laws are just paper tigers, require stringent implementation

Islamabad among high risk districts as major public hospitals lack testing facilities

Car could help in reducing significant amount of air pollution in city

Dr Ala Alwan suggests holding workshop on non-communicable diseases

The unnamed 49-year-old from Buridah city developed symptoms on June 9 and was admitted to hospital

In Pakistan, the global HIV/AIDS epidemic brought to centrestage the significance of safe blood transfusions

The country went from 100,000 HIV cases in 1990 to more than a million three years later, fuelled by huge sex trade

WHO sent teams of senior scientists to Brazil to assess the level of risk to athletes and spectators, says official

Mega event is scheduled to begin on August 5 and will end on September 18 later this year

Countries told to include polio certification as part of visa process

Say coal is not only more expensive, but also affects environment, health

WHO representative in Pakistan Dr Michel Thieren has stated that polio could be eliminated in Pakistan within months

WHO official says about 11 cases were noticed in Pakistan and five in Afghanistan this year

Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, WHO says

According to the study, tobacco is a major cause of cancer

Common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression are increasing worldwide

Experts seek better data recording and handling at grassroots level

"An estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980" UN health agency

Money for education and health, if well spent, will also increase the confidence of the donor community

The UN's health agency said it needed $25 million to fund its own response plan

Brazil is at the center of the Zika outbreak that has spread to more than 30 countries

Chan calls for February 1 meeting to determine if the outbreak qualifies as international public health emergency

One of the most feared diseases in the world, Ebola killed more than 11,000 people across west Africa

The last known case in Guinea was a three-month-old named Nubia, who was born with the disease but recovered

Nineteen trucks pre-loaded with medical supplies in Aden and Sanaa are due to begin distribution later in the day

Dwellers of DI Khan, Lakki Marwat, Tank and Karak would be facilitated with water filtration plants in first phase