WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution met yesterday and designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern and named it Omicron.
After joining the Health, Population and Nutrition Department of the World Bank in 1987, she embarked on her stint with the WHO.
The Minister, along with Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia, was addressing WHO and other field staff, simultaneously connected from over 1000 sites all over the country – from the capital cities to the remotest corners.
The maternal mortality rates in the Region have reduced by 69%, making it the steepest decline in any WHO Region during the MDG era to do so. Countries in the Region have reduced maternal, under-5 and neonatal mortality rates to levels below the SDG targets.
This year, the United Nations gave a call to join the #NotATarget movement and demand that world leaders do everything in their power to protect all civilians and healthcare workers in conflict.
WHO lauds India’s efforts, says modelling study on health impact of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin outlines that accelerated sanitation coverage will have substantial effect on burden of diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition
In the South-East Asia region, where WHO has been promoting breastfeeding as a critical tool for healthy growth of infants, nearly half the infants on an average are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, compared to 38% globally and 18% in industrialised countries.
India has achieved groundbreaking success in reducing maternal mortality, says WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh
