In 2019, Bhutan's Ministry of Health introduced a set of interventions associated with the World Health Organization's Package of Essential Noncommunicable Disease Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Income Settings called PEN HEARTS. This initiative encompassed six components: healthy lifestyle...
under which Bhutan would receive an annual subsidy in exchange for ceding land to British India. Ugyen WANGCHUCK -- who had served as the de facto ruler of an increasingly unified Bhutan and had improved relations with the British toward the end of the 19th century -- was named...
Malaria cases from 2006–2014 were obtained from the Vector-borne Disease Control Program under the Ministry of Health, Bhutan. A Zero-Inflated Poisson multivariable regression model with a conditional autoregressive (CAR) prior structure was developed. Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) ...
The present study had the approval of both the Research Ethical Board of the Bhutan Ministry of Health and the IARC Ethics Committee. Results General female population Of the 2,525 participants who provided cervical cell samples, 2,505 had valid HPV results and were included in the following an...
Out of this, 300 of them are currently used on a daily basis at the Manjong Sorig Pharmaceuticals under the Ministry of Health in Bhutan for preparing multi-ingredient formulations [1]. Today, the preservation of biodiversity hotspot and rich culture and traditions including BTM forms basis of...
These activities not only provide livelihood opportunities for communities but also contribute to the overall health and vitality of the forest ecosystem. Furthermore, forest management interventions such as silvicultural thinning and mosaic fuel-reduction burning have considerable potential for mitigating ...
In this case, the victim had received post-exposure prophylaxis with purified vero cell rabies vaccine by intra-dermal route at the Primary Health Care centre as recommended by National Rabies Management Protocol 2014 [9]. Upon investigation by the Ministry of Health, there were no issues with ...
Methods: Nationwide data on diarrhoea were obtained for 2003 to 2013 from the Health Information and Management System (HIMS), Ministry of Health, Bhutan. Climatic variables were obtained from the Department of Hydro Met Services, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bhutan. Seasonal trend decomposition was...
According to the Health Ministry of Bhutan, the patient was touring India from Feb. 21 to March 1. He started his travel from Washington D.C. on Feb. 18. The Patient was travelling with his partner, who is aged 59, and there were 10 passengers on board at the time he arrived in Bh...
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