
Kathmandu. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has stated that the world is still not adequately prepared for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and resp...

World Patient Safety Day was celebrated on 17th September 2026 with the theme “Safe care for noncommunicable diseases”, accompanied by the slogan "Safe care for life”. The most important responsibi...

Kathmandu, Sept 17: Regional Director of the World Health Organisation’s Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Hanan Balkhi, has expressed belief that she would get Nepal’s support to her candid...

Saima Wazed steps down after being placed on unpaid leave amid fraud and forgery allegations, which she denies. Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia head and daughter of ous...
GENEVA, Aug 15: The World Health Organization said Friday that more than 10,000 attacks on healthcare had been recorded since 2018 -- but nobody has ever been brought to justice.

Kathmandu. World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region Regional Director Dr. Hanan H. Balkhy held a courtesy meeting with Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal. The courtesy meeting took...

Kathmandu, Sept 17: Regional Director of the World Health Organisation's Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Hanan Balkhi, has expressed belief that she would get Nepal's support to her candid...

Kathmandu, Sept 8: The Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) has been awarded the ‘WHO South-East Asia Regional Public Health Champion Award 2026’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), South-East Asia R...

Epidemiology and Disease Control Division asks WHO for urgent doses. Gayatri Pandey, a resident of Nala in Kavrepalanchok district travelled to Kathmandu on Wednesday for a rabies shot after healt...
GENEVA, July 9: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed 600 lives, figures published by the World Health Organization showed Thursday -- only three days after the fig...

Is it only having clean hospital reports, normal blood pressure, controlled sugar, and a disease-free body that constitutes health? If not having illness were the only definition of health, why wo...

Kathmandu, Sept 8: The Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia has recognised Nepal's success in sustaining the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) ...

French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Saturday warned that the latest Ebola outbreak - the 17th since 1976 - was spreading at an unprecedented pace. The World Health Organisation chi...
KINSHASA, July 4: The Democratic Republic of the Congo reported 1,502 confirmed Ebola cases, including 473 deaths, as the World Health Organization said the outbreak remains serious.

Kathmandu. Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina's daughter Saima Wazed has resigned from the post of World Health Organization (WHO) Southeast Asia Regional Director. She submitted her...

Kathmandu, Sept 8: The Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) has been awarded the 'WHO South-East Asia Regional Public Health Champion Award 2026' by the World Health Organization (WHO), South-East Asia R...
KATHMANDU, June 25: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Government of Sri Lanka, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), the World Health Organization Regional Offic...

Kathmandu. A new global cooperation center for Tuberculosis (TB) research and innovation of the World Health Organization (WHO) has been established in China on Friday. It aims to provide Chinese e...

Kathmandu, Aug 26: The World Health Organization (WHO) is going to send necessary medicines and health equipment for those affected by the flood that hit the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa this morning.
BERLIN, June 12: More than 200,000 lives have been lost to the "silent killer" of heat in Europe since 2022, the World Health Organization said Thursday, after a heatwave saw some countries record ...

Kampala. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Uganda Ebola-free. This declaration was made after completing 42 days without any new infections. However, the infection is still spreading...

Kathmandu, Aug 8: The World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office is set to confer the WHO South-East Asia Regional ‘Public Health Champion’ Award 2026 in the public health cate...

Kathmandu. Only four out of ten healthcare service institutions worldwide meet the basic sanitation standards required for patients and healthcare workers. According to a report released by the Uni...

New York. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the new Ebola infection spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo is heading towards becoming the deadliest in history. Speaking t...

Kathmandu. The World Health Organization (WHO) Southeast Asia Regional Office is to present the Nepal Netrajyoti Sangh with the 'Southeast Asia Regional 'Public Health Champion' Award in the public...

Kathmandu. The World Health Organization has been stating that 10 percent of the total budget should be allocated to the health sector. In contrast, the Nepali government has not even been able to ...

World Breastfeeding Week has begun today. Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year in the first week of August with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Childre...

Kathmandu. World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated every year in the first week of August with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), health m...

Washington DC. The US President Donald Trump administration has decided to stop US government funds provided through the global vaccine alliance Gavi to the World Health Organization (WHO). Americ...

France. As the G7 summit is starting in France, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have issued a joint...

Congo. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a comprehensive regional plan of 518 million US dollars to strengthen Ebola outbreak control and preparedness capacity in the Democratic Repu...

Kathmandu. Due to contaminated food, approximately 86.6 million people worldwide fall ill every year and 1.5 million people die, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated. According to the new...

Kathmandu. Statistics have been released that approximately 600 million people worldwide fall ill every year due to contaminated food items. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about ...

Kathmandu. Tuberculosis, a major public health problem, is causing the death of 53 out of every one lakh people. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 67,000 new tuberculosis pat...

Kathmandu. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged some countries to reconsider travel bans and border closures imposed due to the Ebola outbreak sprea...