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Dengue: symptoms, prevention and treatment
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The WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, Saima Wazed, assumed office on 1 February 2024. Within 100 days, Ms Wazed has rolled out a defining vision...
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Regional Director Saima Wazed highlights collaboration, inaugurates multiple projects on her maiden visit to Timor-Leste
Saima Wazed, Regional Director, WHO SEARO, visited Timor-Leste from August 21st to 24th, where she met health leaders and officials and inaugurated multiple projects. This was her first visit to the country after assuming office on 1 February this year.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Cirilo Danis
Regional Director, Saima Wazed, met with the Hon’ble President José Ramos-Horta, and assured WHO’s commitment as a partner in Timor-Leste’s health journey.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Cirilo Danis
On August 22, Regional Director, Saima Wazed, visited 10 Decembro School, where the school-based Primary Health Care Package has been aligned with the Integrated School Health Program. She observed health screenings, HPV vaccinations, and more.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Emilia Moniz
One-Stop mobile diagnostic van, a TB laboratory on wheels, supported by WHO and the Global Fund, was handed over to the Ministry of Health this month. On August 22, Regional Director, Saima Wazed, observed its demonstration in the Comoro community.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Emilia Moniz
Highlighting the health milestones achieved since the country's independence two decades ago, Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Health presented its collaborative efforts with WHO, in a meeting with Saima Wazed, Regional Director.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Cirilo Danis
Regional Director, Saima Wazed, inaugurated projects at the National Institute of Public Health of Timor-Leste. She also handed over 300 medical and nursing education books to its library.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Emilia Moniz
The Regional Director, along with other dignitaries, performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the Field Epidemiology Training Center.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Emilia Moniz
On August 23, Saima Wazed, Regional Director, inaugurated Timor-Leste’s first PSA Oxygen plant. This facility, utilizing smart technology to convert air into pure oxygen, will significantly improve access to this life-saving resource.
WHO Timor-Leste
To help enhance prehospital preparedness, Saima Wazed, Regional Director, handed over ventilators, monitors, other life-saving equipment and Medical Camp Kits.
WHO Timor-Leste
Regional Director Saima Wazed handed over an advanced care ambulance equipped with Automated External Defibrillators to the Ministry of Health.
WHO Timor-Leste
Saima Wazed, Regional Director, met Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste. They discussed strengthening collaboration in maternal and child health, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and global warming.
WHO Timor-Leste/ Cirilo Danis
Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (the APO) is a collaborative partnership of interested governments, international agencies, foundations, and researchers that promotes evidence-informed health systems policy regionally and in all countries in the Asia Pacific region.
Global Leprosy Programme
The Global Leprosy Programme (GLP) of the World Health Organization is housed in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (and not in the Organization’s headquarters in Geneva). It is the Organization’s designated programme for addressing leprosy worldwide. Being classified as one of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the unit works in close collaboration with the Department of Control of NTDs in HQ, designated focal points in all regions, national leprosy programmes and partners.
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Polio-free certification of the WHO South-East Asia Region
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