Tag: Organization

The Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan has been elected as Chair of the Executive Board of World Health Organization for the year 2020-21 at the 147th session of the Executive Board, in a meeting that was virtually held.................

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval for 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) to be formed in five years period from 2019-20 to 2023-24 to ensure economies of scale for farmers.................

The World Health Organization's Executive Board has unanimously endorsed Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, who was earlier also unanimously nominated by 11 Member countries of the Region for another five years

Besides approving India’s membership to the Executive Board of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for 2020 and 2021, the Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO) Council gave green signal to India’s proposal to observe an International Year of Millets in 2023..................

Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia in her World Hepatitis Day message called for an urgent action to find, test and treat the missing millions suffering viral hepatitis and achieve the time-bound targets of regional action plan...…………….

The World Health Organization has taken cognizance of studies suggesting the deteriorating of physical or psychological health due to enormous time spent in playing games rather than any physical activity................

The WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia has called for expanding national malaria programmes’ reach to disadvantaged or neglected communities, including tribal, migrant or mobile populations..............

Calling upon the industry members to approach the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) for any complaint or resolving of issues, the Drug Controller General of India, Dr S Eswara Reddy has informed that a special cell has been created to take care of it..............

The Executive Director of Apollo Hospitals, Ms Sangita Reddy stressed on the need for accelerating health research by utilizing new methodologies while speaking at the Sixth Healthcare Access Summit organized by the OPPI at Delhi.....