WHO Director General Dr Chan and Regional Director Dr Gezairy arrived in Pakistan to support early recovery, rehabilitation as well as to boost Polio eradication efforts
28 October, 2010: Islamabad/Cairo/Geneva – World Health Organization Director-General Dr Margaret Chan is currently in Pakistan reviewing the progress of health relief and recovery efforts in flood-affected parts of the country. Dr Chan is also promoting polio eradication efforts in the country
Ministry of Health, WHO and FAO to upscale prevention to avoid Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and Dengue
15 October, 2010 ¦ Islamabad – Pakistan's National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed that cases of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) and Dengue fever have been recorded in the country.
WHO supports malaria epidemic prevention and control in Pakistan
12 October 2010 ¦ Islamabad - Almost 300,000 suspected malaria cases, including confirmed cases of the severe falciparum-malaria, have been recorded in flood-affected areas of Pakistan since 29 July 2010, an overall number which is slightly above the average annual malaria seasonal levels. The World Health Organization is supporting Pakistan's Ministry of Health Malaria Control Programme, as well as Health Cluster partners, to prevent and control a malaria epidemic in the country.
WHO, WFP and UNICEF unite to target Pakistan's most at-risk communities
1 October, 2010 ¦ GENEVA -- The humanitarian community has entered a new phase to intensify assistance to the most vulnerable people in flood-affected Pakistan. A joint plan pools activities and resources in nutrition, water and sanitation and health to deliver emergency life-saving care and restore vital services in communities where people have begun to return.
The United Nations outlines combined strategy to ensure the survival of millions of flood affected people in Pakistan
24 September 2010 | Islamabad – The emergency situation caused by the floods in Pakistan is far
from being over and is worsening for the most vulnerable people. Three UN agencies today warned of the
urgent need to quickly scale up the response in the most recently flooded areas in the south while not
losing sight of working towards an early recovery in the centre and the north of the country.
Health sector treats almost 6 million in flood-affected Pakistan, but great challenges persist
23 September 2010 | Islamabad | Cairo | Geneva -- In a massive health relief effort underway in the flood-affected parts of Pakistan, nearly six million people have been treated for health conditions since the floods began in late July; but there are urgent needs to prevent further health crises or food insecurity caused by large-scale damage to crops and agricultural land.
Health Clinics on the Move to Save Lives Across the Country
6 September 2010 -- WHO, Pakistani authorities and health partners are operating almost 1200 mobile health teams across flood-affected areas of the country, delivering urgently needed services, including primary health care, to millions of people in need.
WHO's regional director inspects flood-affected southern Pakistan, visits diarrhoea treatment centre
5 September 2010 ¦ Multan -- The World Health Organization's top official for the
Eastern Mediterranean region visited areas in southern Punjab today affected by
Pakistan's devastating floods, meeting with senior health officials and assessing one of
the health facilities dedicated to treating diarrhoeal disease cases.
WHO's regional director arrives in Pakistan to support flood health relief effort
4 September 2010 ¦ Islamabad -- The World Health Organization's top official for
the Eastern Mediterranean region arrives today in Islamabad on a mission to assess the
health impact of Pakistan's floods, take stock of the health sector response and commit
WHO's continuing support to immediate and longer-term health relief and recovery
efforts.
Diarrhoeal treatment capacity increasing in Pakistan, but sustained support needed
30 August 2010 ¦ Islamabad -- The World Health Organization is establishing diarrhoeal
treatment centres throughout flood-ravaged Pakistan, a key intervention by the humanitarian
health sector as it strives to protect people against epidemic-prone acute water-borne diseases,
reduce excess deaths and restore routine health care services.
WHO urges increased donor support to fund Pakistan flood crisis health projects
19 August 2010--Peshawar/Cairo/Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged all donor partners to intensify efforts to provide the resources needed to deliver emergency health and humanitarian assistance to Pakistan's flood-affected communities.
Surveying the damage caused in flood-affected areas of Peshawar, Dr Abdallah Assaedi, Deputy Regional Director of WHO's Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean said: “We must accelerate our efforts as have not yet seen the full extent and magnitude of this disaster affecting the people of Pakistan.”
3 August 2010 | Islamabad | Cairo | Geneva -- The worst floods on record in Pakistan are placing the health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, with a high threat of waterborne disease outbreaks and immense damage to health facilities. WHO is coordinating the response of health partners and supporting Pakistani authorities by sending medicines and related health supplies capable of treating more than 200 000 people to the affected areas in the northwestern region of the country.
Dire health and humanitarian contitions of IDPs in the Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. Interview with Dr Khalif Bile Mohamud, WHO Representative, Pakistan.
WHO steps up emergency response to Pakistan crisis
11 July 2009 ¦ Islamabad - The World Health Organization is ramping up its health response to the Pakistan's humanitarian crisis by buying ambulances and millions of courses of additional medicines, plus building new warehouses, to improve health care for the approximately 2 million internally displaced people and the many more hosting them in northwest Pakistan.
2 July 2009 ¦ Islamabad/New York - “The everyday people of Pakistan are the real heroes of this current crisis in Pakistan,” said Martin Mogwanja, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Pakistan. “They are opening the doors of their often modest homes, sharing what they have, no matter how little, no matter how it strains their often modest budgets. True humanitarians, they set an inspiring example of extraordinary generosity for the whole world,” he added, speaking at a press conference in Islamabad today. He noted that he hoped this example is followed by the governments of this world, whose continued urgent support is desperately needed.
Step up health care delivery in IDP hosting communities
27 June 2009 -- The total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) by ongoing fighting in northwest Pakistan rose from 209,136 in January 2009 to reportedly more than 2 million in June , ninety percent of which are living in host communities where life-saving health care services that are either already limited or have now reached a breaking point.
WHO: Immediate funding required to protect health of 3 million people displaced in Pakistan
3 June 2009 | ISLAMABAD -- Immediate funding is needed for national and international health providers in Pakistan so they can provide life-saving health care to the more than 3 million internally displaced people now residing in temporary camps and in host communities in the country's northwest.
20 000 displaced by Pakistan earthquake, WHO warns of health risks
29 October 2008 | Islamabad/Geneva -- Accessibility to health services, exposure to cold weather and access to safe food and water are major health concerns facing the at least 20 000 people displaced by today's magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan province.
Pakistan: displacement puts thousands at risk of diseases
10 Septemeber 2008 | Peshawar -- Thousands of Pakistan's most vulnerable people are on the move in the country's northwest, seeking health and other humanitarian aid after being displaced by armed conflict and heavy flooding. WHO and its partners are supporting Pakistani authorities to help the 423 000 displaced people in need.
Health response launched for the displaced in Pakistan
9 September 2008 | Geneva -- Some 423 000 people in Pakistan need urgent health care after being affected by recent conflict and flooding. WHO and partners are requesting US$ 9.76 million to undertake life-saving health responses to this humanitarian crisis.
World Health Organization sends aid to help victims of South Asia earthquake
13 october 2005 -- To fight the spread of health care-associated infections, which take a high toll in human lives and affect hundreds of millions of patients worldwide each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners are launching the Global Patient Safety Challenge with the theme, "Clean Care is Safer Care". As part of the launch, an advanced draft of the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care is being made available, to encourage simple measures to prevent the spread of these infections.
UN-Briefing: WHO intensifies harsh winter emergency supplies in Afghanistan
21 December 2001 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified harsh winter emergency supplies inside Afghanistan. Ms. Fadela Chaib, official of the World Health Ortanization said in the UN briefing here Friday that WHO has intensified its emergency supplies for Afghanistan because harsh winter has already come. She said that WHO has already provided 60 Emergency Medical Kits to hospitals and health facilities inside Afghanistan either through WHO sub-offices or NGOs.
