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President ratifies Public Health Bill
President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik on Monday ratified the Public Health Bill, which was passed by the Parliament on the 26th sitting of its third session on November 28.
December 18, 2012 -
No epidemic in Maldives yet: CCHDC
Centre for Community Health and Disease Control (CCHDC) yesterday insisted that flooding in several islands caused by the heavy rains in Maldives had not led to an epidemic thus far.
November 05, 2012 -
Authorities on alert for a potential epidemic
Due to overflowing sewage systems caused by heavy rain and flooding in some islands, concerned government authorities are on alert with the high risk of an epidemic.
November 01, 2012 -
CCHDC warns of a potential epidemic
Center for Community Health and Disease Control (CCHDC) has warned of a potential risk of an epidemic as a result of the heavy rain and flooding in large parts of the Maldives
October 31, 2012 -
On patrol with Mumbai's spit inspector
At a bus stop in south Mumbai, a man hawks loudly before expelling a mouthful of brown saliva into the road without a second thought -- but unfortunately for him, the spit inspector is watching.
October 09, 2012 -
Disease alert post Philippine floods
Emergency relief officials and doctors have been deployed to flood devastated communities in the Philippines to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85.
August 12, 2012 -
Health alert in India's riot-hit northeast
Authorities in a remote Indian state on Thursday said they were working hard to prevent the eruption of epidemics in crowded camps sheltering some 400,000 people after weeks of deadly ethnic violence.
August 10, 2012 -
Unknown disease kills 60 children in Cambodia
An unidentified disease has killed 60 young children in Cambodia in three months, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as it raced to identify the cause.
July 07, 2012 -
Measles kills 12 children in Pakistan
A measles outbreak has killed 12 children in one of Pakistan's lawless tribal districts and is spreading as fighting, power cuts and curfews cause a vaccine shortage, doctors said Monday.
May 15, 2012 -
Preventable diseases mowing down children
Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children younger than five in 2010, a paper in The Lancet medical journal said Friday.
May 14, 2012
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