World health Organisation (WHO) recognised Nepal for public health achiement.
Ministers of Health of six member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region have been felicitated today for public health achievements like measles elimination, hepatitis B control, and elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis, in recent months, according to a press note issued by the WHO. "Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Thailand are recognised for becoming the first four countries from the region to control Hepatitis B; Sri Lanka is recognised for eliminating measles and Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis."
Presenting citations to the ministers for their public health achievements at a side event during the 72nd session of WHO Regional Committee of South-East Asia in New Delhi, the regional director Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said that disease eliminations have always been high on the WHO agenda. “When I talk about sustain, accelerate and innovate, ‘accelerate’ is to step up efforts to eliminate diseases like the neglected tropical diseases,” she said.
The minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine of Sri Lanka Dr RajithaSenaratne was presented the citation for measles elimination as Sri Lanka is the fifth country in the Region to eliminate measles, a flagship priority program of WHO in South-East Asia since 2014.
The citations for Hepatitis B control were presented to deputy prime minister and health minister Upendra Yadav, Bhutan’s minister of Health DechenWangmo; Thailand’s deputy minister of Public Health Sathit Pitutecha, and additional secretary of Health Services Division of Bangladesh Md Saidur Rahman. Controlling hepatitis B by reducing disease prevalence to less than one per cent among five-year-old significantly reduces chronic infections and cases of liver cancer and cirrhosis in adulthood.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the public health achievements awards were presented to member countries on the sidelines of the Regional Committee Session. With focused and concerted efforts, member countries are making substantial progress around the priority health issues, the press note reads.
Ministers of Health of six member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region have been felicitated today for public health achievements like measles elimination, hepatitis B control, and elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis, in recent months, according to a press note issued by the WHO. "Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Thailand are recognised for becoming the first four countries from the region to control Hepatitis B; Sri Lanka is recognised for eliminating measles and Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis."
Presenting citations to the ministers for their public health achievements at a side event during the 72nd session of WHO Regional Committee of South-East Asia in New Delhi, the regional director Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said that disease eliminations have always been high on the WHO agenda. “When I talk about sustain, accelerate and innovate, ‘accelerate’ is to step up efforts to eliminate diseases like the neglected tropical diseases,” she said.
The minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine of Sri Lanka Dr RajithaSenaratne was presented the citation for measles elimination as Sri Lanka is the fifth country in the Region to eliminate measles, a flagship priority program of WHO in South-East Asia since 2014.
The citations for Hepatitis B control were presented to deputy prime minister and health minister Upendra Yadav, Bhutan’s minister of Health DechenWangmo; Thailand’s deputy minister of Public Health Sathit Pitutecha, and additional secretary of Health Services Division of Bangladesh Md Saidur Rahman. Controlling hepatitis B by reducing disease prevalence to less than one per cent among five-year-old significantly reduces chronic infections and cases of liver cancer and cirrhosis in adulthood.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the public health achievements awards were presented to member countries on the sidelines of the Regional Committee Session. With focused and concerted efforts, member countries are making substantial progress around the priority health issues, the press note reads.
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