KATHMANDU, March 7: In a significant move to enhance early detection and management of critical health conditions in newborns, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched implementation guidance for universal screening in the South-East Asia Region on Tuesday. The initiative focuses on screening newborns for hearing impairment, eye abnormalities and neonatal jaundice to prevent disabilities resulting from these conditions.

Together we must fight

March 2, 2020 09:12 am

The approach of the WHO South-East Asia Region to health security is guided by a simple yet powerful logic: When we work together we are protected together. Never has this been more important. The outbreak of COVID-19 is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and provides significant challenges to countries in the Region. We must stand together and work as one to face the outbreak down.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: World Health Organization has urged its member states in the South-East Asia region to accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer by 2030.