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Trump orders US to withdraw from WHO, pause foreign aid
Published on 21/01/2025
» WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.
Cholera flare-up in Thailand 'under control'
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/01/2025
» A minor cholera outbreak in Thailand has been brought under control, with only a small number of Myanmar and Thai patients diagnosed with the disease — characterised by severe diarrhoea — and cured already, public health and local security authorities said on Wednesday.
Carter's wisdom
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/01/2025
» Re: "Jimmy Carter: president, global mediator, Nobel laureate", (World, Dec 30).
Crackdown on Thai clinics' fake docs for migrant workers
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/12/2024
» Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin yesterday called on people to report any medical outlet selling medical certificates to migrant workers without actually running a proper health check on them.
Ministry gives cholera medicine to ailing Myanmar
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 25/12/2024
» The Public Health Ministry has allocated enough medication for 2,400 cholera patients and almost 5,000 cholera vaccine doses to assist Myanmar in combating an outbreak that has spread across major cities, including Yangon, Rakhine and Mandalay.
Thailand sends cholera medicine to Myanmar
Published on 24/12/2024
» The Thai Ministry of Public Health has allocated enough medication for 2,400 cholera patients and almost 5,000 cholera vaccine doses to assist Myanmar in combating an outbreak that has spread across major cities, including Yangon, Mandalay and Rakhine state.
Alert sounds over cholera outbreak in Myanmar
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/12/2024
» Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has ordered surveillance measures to be stepped up along the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak following a cholera outbreak in Myanmar.
Govt tracking cholera cases
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 23/12/2024
» The Ministry of Public Health has set up an emergency operations centre (EOC) to monitor the cholera situation following two suspected cases found at hospitals in Tak province.
Cholera alert in Tak after breakout across Myanmar border
Post Reporters, Published on 22/12/2024
» The Public Health Ministry has opened an emergency operations centre (EOC) in Tak province in a bid to block cholera, which is spreading in the adjacent city of Shwe Kokko in Myanmar. Two cases so far have been recorded in Tak.
Mayotte hospital on life support after cyclone
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» MAMOUDZOU - The haggard faces in the wreckage-and-water-strewn corridors betrayed the nerves and exhaustion of those soldiering on at the main hospital on the French archipelago of Mayotte, ravaged by a deadly cyclone last weekend.