The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture designated as World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Bioethics at a special ceremony held at SIUT, Karachi. This is the first such centre in the entire Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) of WHO in which Pakistan is included along with 21 other [...]
A senior level delegation from the World Health Organisation’s EMRO office visited Pakistan to get an overview of the blood transfusion system in the country. The delegation includes Dr. Franciscus Adrianus Konings, Regional Advisor, and Dr. Yetmgeta E. Abdella, Medical Officer, Blood Safety. The itinerary of the Mission included meetings with key stakeholders and visits [...]
To review the status of regional and provincial blood regulatory authorities and evaluate progress, and to develop an action plan for strengthening blood regulatory systems in the country, World Health Organization in collaboration with Safe Blood Transfusion Programme (SBTP), Ministry of National Health Services & Regulations organised a National Consultative Workshop on Blood Regulation at [...]
World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) in collaboration with the Nutrition program of Federal Health Ministry conducted Training Workshop on ‘Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) for countries with emergencies’ at a local hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. The training includes participants from 9 regional countries. Participants from all provinces and areas [...]
The Department of Pediatrics, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) and World Health Organisation (WHO) organized an award distribution ceremony for the undergraduate students on their best performance in the evaluation of Pre Service IMNCI (Integrated Management of Neonatal & Childhood Illnesses) done by WHO-EMRO. Secretary Health, Government of Sindh, Hashim Raza Zaidi [...]
Dr. Ala Alwan will, on February 1, 2012, take up his appointment as the new regional director for the World Health Organisation’s Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO-EMRO) headquartered in Cairo. He will take over from Dr. Hussein Abdel-Razzak Al Gezairy for a five-year term. In a related development, Dr. Margaret Chan has been nominated for a [...]
Since most people living with HIV in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organisation (WHO), of which Pakistan is also a part, do not know that they are infected with the virus, or are not known to the health system, regional treatment coverage is still the lowest globally. This fact has come to [...]
