WHO, partners meet to avoid Covid failures on fair medical access for mpox

​The World Health Organisation was due to host an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss ways to ensure fair global access to tests, treatments and vaccines for mpox, a leading official said, as the viral infection spreads in parts of Africa and beyond.

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File FIR within six hours of violence: Government to hospitals

"In the event of any violence against any health care worker while on duty, the Head of Institution shall be responsible for filing an Institutional FIR within a maximum of 6 hours of the incident," the directive, issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Friday.

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WHO calls for increased surveillance, sharing of data, vaccines to combat monkeypox outbreak

​A day after Sweden confirmed the first case of a more contagious monkeypox variant outside Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged affected countries to work together to tackle the monkeypox outbreak and called on all nations to address the current outbreak.

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ICMR, Panacea Biotec begin Phase 3 clinical trial of indigenous dengue vaccine

The tetravalent dengue vaccine strain (TV003/TV005), initially developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA, has demonstrated promising results in global preclinical and clinical trials. In India, Phase 1 and 2 trials of the vaccine formulation were completed in 2018-19 with positive outcomes, according to Union Health Ministry.

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Mpox vaccines likely months away even as WHO, Africa CDC discuss emergency

​Vaccines to help curb an escalating mpox outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries may still not reach the central African country for months even as the World Health Organization considers following Africa's top public health agency in declaring the outbreak an emergency.

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Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: FORDA calls off strike after meeting Union Health Minister Nadda

​FORDA called for the expeditious acceptance of the demands put forth by the residents of RG Kar Medical College, including the resignation of the responsible authorities, such as the Principal, MSVP, Dean, and the Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine.

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Medic's rape-murder: Doctors' strike to continue as meeting with health ministry inconclusive

​The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association on Monday announced the extension of its indefinite strike to protest the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata after their meeting with officials from the Union health ministry here failed to bring out any resolution

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