Tag: World Health Organization
Number of patients with type A influenza in Thailand likely to rise: WHO
BANGKOK, 14 December 2015 (NNT) – Public Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsattayatorn said the World Health Organization (WHO)’s report in November 2015 indicated that the number [Read More…]
Thailand ranks the world’s No 18 for high incidence of TB infection
The World Health Organisation has put Thailand the world’s No 18 ranking for high incidence of tuberculosis infection from the previous No 22 ranking, Dr [Read More…]
Thailand on alert for rodent-linked disease
BANGKOK, Sept 10 – Thai health officials are on alert for an outbreak of hantavirus—a rodent-borne illness—after a global warning to travellers by the World [Read More…]
WHO raises alarm on resistance to malaria drug
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling on nations in the Mekong region to take urgent action to combat growing resistance to artemisinin – the [Read More…]
Thais urged not to panic over mysterious skin disease in Vietnam
BANGKOK, 24 April 2012 (NNT) – The Public Health Ministry has urged Thai people not to panic about the discovery of a severe skin disease [Read More…]
Health care in Thailand to become more accessible
The National Health Security Office of Thailand (NHSO) is set to promote primary medical care across the country while insisting that patients still benefit greatly [Read More…]
ASIA: Isolation, poverty loom for an aging population
BANGKOK, 14 February 2012 (IRIN) – With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia has one of the largest concentrations globally of aging persons, creating [Read More…]
Analysis: When aid meets arsenic in Nepal
PARASI, 27 January 2012 (IRIN) – After the discovery of unsafe levels of arsenic in Nepal’s groundwater more than a decade ago, government officials and [Read More…]
