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The Health Ministry stresses that to date, no confirmed cases of serious adverse events following immunization have been detected in Fiji despite 256,018 individuals being given one dose and 17990 individuals having had two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. It...
The fraudulent hospitals deal was conceived, negotiated and awarded under Muscat's stewardship. The lucrative contract went to Vitals Global Healthcare - a company that had no prior experience in healthcare and which theNational Audit Officesubsequently concluded should have never been allowe...
Responding to a question on whether it has come to the notice of the government that Covaxin used in India as Covid vaccine is not recognised by many countries, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Ms Pawar in a written reply said, “The Government of India is aware that Covaxin at...
The first director general of WHO was Canadian physicianBrock Chisholm, who served from 1948 to 1953. Later directors general of WHO included physician and formerprime ministerofNorwayGro Harlem Brundtland(1998–2003), South Korean epidemiologist and public health expertLee Jong-Wook (2003–06), and...
And Terawan Agus Putranto, Indonesia’s health minister, said their successful response to the pandemic had been built around “coordination, risk communication and community empowerment.” He also acknowledged that the country needs to improve on its enforcement of “lockdown restrictions and empowerin...
iran's deputy health minister iraj harirchi said at a press conference. who said it has a team of officials who will arrive in iran on tuesday. it is possible the coronavirus could stick around for the long term, similar to the flu, ryan said. "the virus may settle down into endem...
Drozdov Georgiy Tikhonovich (ДроздовГеоргийТихонович) in 1959 - Deputy Head of the Department of Administrative and Trade-Financial Bodies of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR; he could have been the head of the health personnel sector...
Tedros Adhanom (born March 3, 1965, Asmara, Ethiopia [now in Eritrea]) is an Ethiopian biologist and public health official who was the first African to serve as director general (2017– ) of the World Health Organization (WHO). During his tenure with WHO, he worked to accelerate progress...
Council members told the Associated Press late Tuesday that six of seven members with voting powers had selected Conille for the prime minister role. Laurent St. Cyr, the seventh member, is not in Haiti currently and as a result did not vote. ...