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Gaza: WHO calls on all parties to respect and protect health facilities, personnel and patients
Al Wafa, the only medical rehabilitation hospital in Gaza, was evacuated after repeated air strikes and 14 inpatients, all with disabilities, were sent to other hospitals.Jerusalem/Cairo, 22 July 2014-- The World Health Organization and its health partners are gravely concerned about the increasing attacks on health facilities, ambulances,...
Urgent funds required to prevent the collapse of health services in occupied Palestinian territory
Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem10 July 2014, Jerusalem – The recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip raises concern about the ability of the Government and the Ministry of Health of the occupied Palestinian territory to cope with the increased burden of medical emergencies on the health system, given the high levels of...
WHO responds to deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq
WHO is providing inter-agency health kits containing medicines and medical supplies for 200 000 people as part of its response to the ongoing crisis in Iraq. Photo credit: Saad Al-Dahwi/WHOErbil, 16 June, 2014 – WHO is working with local and international partners in Iraq to meet the urgent health needs of populations affected by the ongoing...
“Give blood for those who give life”: World Blood Donor Day 2014
11 June 2014 | Cairo, Egypt – This year’s World Blood Donor Day highlights the fact that safe blood saves the lives of mothers. It is a call to save the lives of the thousands of women worldwide who die every year due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. The slogan of this year’s World Blood Donor Day campaign is “give blood for...
WHO concludes a MERS-CoV risk assessment mission in the United Arab Emirates
WHO/R. Sidani6 June 2014 | Cairo, Egypt – A team from the WHO has concluded a 5-day mission in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to assess the risk posed by the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the country. Health authorities in UAE had invited WHO to review the current situation after an upsurge of cases in April. The team had...
Raise taxes on tobacco: A sound policy with a powerful impact on health and the economy
28 May 2014 | Cairo, Egypt – On World No Tobacco Day, 31 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on countries to raise tobacco taxes. Higher taxes on tobacco raise more revenue for governments and health programmes, reduce tobacco use and lead to healthier communities and healthier economies. Tobacco taxation works Taxation is one of the...
First round of health journalism training successfully coming to an end
Participant journalists from Libya during the first round of training held in TunisiaCairo, 22 May 2014 – The first round of a joint WHO/Agence France-Presse/Thomson Reuters Foundation training programme on mainstreaming health in the media is successfully coming to an end. For 15 weeks, 18 Libyan journalists, representing different media outlets,...
HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein chairs nursing and midwifery forum
HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan, WHO Patron for Nursing and Midwifery in the Eastern Mediterranean Region20 May 2014 – The Sixth Global Forum for Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers successfully concluded in Geneva on 15 May, in the presence of Her Royal Highness (HRH) Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan, WHO Patron for Nursing...
WHO reaffirms exclusively humanitarian purpose of public health programmes
Cairo, 12 May 2014 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is deeply concerned by the circulation of an incorrect statement that was made during a press conference convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan on Thursday 8 May 2014, which wrongly and erroneously alleged the involvement of United Nations agencies in the “fake vaccination...
WHO concludes MERS-CoV mission in Saudi Arabia
WHO is seeking to better understand the transmission patterns of the virus and control measures. Since mid-March 2014, over 100 people have tested positive for MERS in the Jeddah area and 31 of them have died. Photo: WHO/T. JasarevicCairo, Egypt 7 May, 2014 – A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) completed a 5-day mission to...
