Health Ministers to nominate next WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia

The 76th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, the annual governing body meeting of the world body at the regional level, will be held from October 30 to November 3, in the national capital. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO South-East Asia Regional Director Poonam Khetrapal will be present.

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Monoclonal antibodies for Nipah treatment to be developed indigenously: Kerala Health Minister

The Kerala government's Institute of Advanced Virology, the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) and the National Institute of Virology in Pune would be involved in the effort.

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Blackstone-owned Health Platform Quality Care to buy KIMS Kerala

Quality Care India Limited (QCIL), a hospital platform owned by Blackstone, has agreed to acquire KIMS Health Management (KHML), Kerala's leading hospital chain, for ₹3,500 crore ($400 million). With this acquisition, QCIL will become the fourth largest hospital group in India, owning close to 3,800 beds.

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Kerala Health Minister denies allegations of corruption in drug procurement

The minister was responding to the allegations by the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly V D Satheesan, who on Tuesday had cited a CAG report and charged that certain medicines were procured without examining their quality and 26 hospitals were given medicines which were past their expiry date.

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UK online pharmacy Rightangled still selling diabetes drug Ozempic despite govt order

In July, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Britain's National Health Service declared a national shortage of Ozempic and all other drugs in a class called "GLP-1 receptor agonists" due to the soaring demand for approved and off-label use.

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WHO, dist health depts differ on filariasis drive coverage

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns over a specific lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination push in Thane and Nagpur, two districts of Maharashtra, after noting lower coverage rates than the field teams had first claimed.

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Zoonotic diseases area of concern: Union health secretary

The limited knowledge and skill to identify zoonotic diseases, coupled with the limited diagnostic facilities at all levels has resulted in the neglect of the infectious diseases due to zoonotic pathogens.

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