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WHO reports high lethal level of alcohol consumption

Published on: June 27, 2024
01:00

Geneva, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that in 2019, 2.6 million deaths were attributed to alcohol consumption, which accounts for 4.7 percent of all deaths.

UN steps up efforts to response to cholera fresh outbreak in Nigeria

Published on: June 22, 2024
09:43

United Nations, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Several United Nations agencies are currently collaborating to strengthen their response to the cholera fresh outbreak reported in Nigeria, where over 300 cholera cases have been confirmed in Lagos state alone.

WHO describes health, humanitarian situation in Gaza as critical

Published on: June 22, 2024
07:47

Geneva, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Director-General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, described the health and humanitarian situation in Gaza as critical, which he considered a devastated dead zone.

WHO calls for evacuation of wounded, sick people from Gaza

Published on: June 22, 2024
05:52

Ramallah, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that more than 10,000 Palestinians are waiting to leave Gaza in order to be treated abroad.

WHO urges to not dismissing humanitarian crisis in Sudan

Published on: June 12, 2024
15:04

Geneva, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) called Wednesday on the world not to dismiss the situation in Sudan, which has become the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world after 14 months of civil war.

UN alarmed after attack on hospital in Sudan

Published on: June 10, 2024
13:09

United Nations, 10 Jun (Prensa Latina) The increase in violence and attacks on medical facilities in Sudan is alarming, the UN warned today after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a major hospital in Darfur.

World Day of Transplant Patients is celebrated

Published on: June 6, 2024
14:38

Washington, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) is celebrating the World Day of Transplant Patients, due to the need of millions of patients with chronic or terminal diseases for this practice in order to continue living.

WHO chief reports catastrophic health crisis in Gaza

Published on: June 4, 2024
17:19

Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) A catastrophic health crisis is presently developing in Gaza, while aid levels to save lives are highly unsufficient, WHO's Regional Director for the Middle East, Hanan Balkhy said.

WHA rejects Taiwan-related proposal again

Published on: May 28, 2024
14:33

Beijing, 28 May (Prensa Latina) The 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) refused to include in its agenda a proposal on Taiwan's participation in the annual assembly as an observer, the eighth year in a row that the WHA has rejected the so-called proposal concerning Taiwan.

Cuba denounces US blockade and aggression against Gaza at WHO

Published on: May 28, 2024
10:59

Geneva, May 28 (Prensa Latina) Cuba denounced before the World Health Organization (WHO) the impact on this sector of the U.S. blockade on the island and the consequences of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip in the health sector.

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