“WHO and partners managed to access (Al) Shifa (hospital) in the north and deliver fuel, some lifesaving supplies for 150 patients and treatment of 50 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition and also bring it vaccines,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, UN World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. For the first time…
The latest grave assessment from the World Health Organization (WHO) came after UN teams reached Al Ahli Arab hospital and Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, amid reports of intensifying ground operations by Israeli Defense Forces and continuing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, in response to Hamas’s 7 October terror attacks on southern Israel. “Patients were…
Volker Türk’s appeal came as UN humanitarians continued to issue dire warnings about the full scale of the humanitarian crisis in the enclave. ‘Crumbs’ of aid The head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), said that the “few (aid) trucks” which have come in from Egypt since 21 October are “nothing more than…
Latest news reports said the bodies of at least 79 men, women and children had been recovered, with hundreds more potentially dead or missing. The UN migration agency (IOM) estimated that at least 400 had been on board, adding that 104 survivors had been brought to shore by the middle of the day, local time….
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are highlighting the issue ahead of World Food Safety Day, observed annually on 7 June. This year, focus is on the role of established food safety practices and standards which ensure that what we eat, is safe to consume. Ending ‘preventable deaths’ Food…
In Germany, a cardiologist has been arrested on suspicion of murdering patients who died from an overdose of sedatives. According to the police, the doctor is suspected of deliberately overdosing two critically ill patients. Both patients died of sedative overdose. The 55-year-old doctor, who worked at a local hospital in Berlin, was suspended in August…
File photo As US President Joe Biden announced his campaign for a second term on Tuesday, rival and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley predicted his death, saying that Joe Biden will die in the next 5 years. According to foreign media reports, Nikki Haley, the rival Republican presidential candidate, gave an interview to a private…
Lucknow: In a major development in the death of 4 children at a shelter home in India, the inquiry committee held the staff responsible and recommended the dismissal of the doctor. According to the details, after the death of 4 children in a government shelter home in the city of Lucknow in the Indian state…
