The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned against “increasing number of attacks” on health facilities and workers in Libya, Anadolu Agency reports. In 41 attacks targeting healthcare facilities since 2018, six...

At least 29 children and newborns are reported to have died in a teeming camp in northeastern Syria over the past 8 weeks, mainly due to hypothermia, the World...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that 24.4 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, 80 per cent of the country’s 28-million-strong population. Writing on Twitter, the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced yesterday that it had succeeded in pressuring Israeli authorities to allow the entry of children’s vaccines into the occupied Palestinian territories next year. The...

Egyptians on social media have been poking fun at comments from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi calling out Egyptians for being overweight – the second time the former general has...

Ambulances have been intentionally and repeatedly targeted in Syria, researchers said on Tuesday, calling for more efforts to protect medical workers caught up in the conflict, the Thomson Reuters Foundation...

UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have vaccinated more than 306,000 people in Yemen against cholera, including over 164,000 children under the age of 15, UNICEF announced on...

Ten people have died among 32 infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia since June in a series of clusters of the viral disease, Reuters reported...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), with support from the European Union, “is replenishing stocks of urgently-needed trauma medicines in Gaza, and providing hands-on training for health staff working in...

More than a quarter of the world’s adults – or 1.4 billion people – take too little exercise, putting them at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes,...

More than 70 million people in the Eastern Mediterranean region are in need of health aid, according to Ahmed Al-Mandhari, the World Health Organisation regional director for the area. Those in...

The Yemeni ministry of health launched a new polio vaccination campaign, Monday, funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank. The...

Outbreaks of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) killed 23 people in Saudi Arabia between Jan. 21 and May 31 this year, the World Health Organisation said on...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a vaccination campaign to combat the cholera epidemic in Yemen nearly 18 months after it was due to be started. According to...

A Palestinian medic has recounted being shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper, during the ongoing ‘Great March of Return’ protests in the occupied Gaza Strip. The testimony,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNICEF called for international action in response to explosive hazards in Syria where at least 910 children were killed by explosive devices...

Some 4,800 people had lost some of their limbs in the war against Daesh in Iraq’s Mosul, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced on Monday. Those...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that the number of deaths in Yemen from diphtheria has increased to 66 cases in the past several months, Anadolu news agency...

An aid convoy of nine trucks carrying food, health and other supplies for 7,200 people reached the besieged rebel-held Damascus enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, the United Nations...

Almost 500 cases of diphtheria are suspected in Yemen, the World Health Organisation said yesterday. The outbreak began in August last year, Reuters has reported. According to WHO spokesman...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday an announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross that cholera cases in the country had reached one million...

There are currently one million people infected with cholera in wartorn Yemen, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday Some 2,225 people have died on the disease since...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank said at least half of the world’s population, 3.5 billion people, do not have access to basic health services. In...

Since the start of this year, 20 Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip died due to an Israeli ban on their travel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed. The Israeli...

World Health Organisation said on Friday it had received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that had destroyed a store containing more than 130,000 vaccine...

Five female cancer patients in the Gaza Strip died in August after Israeli occupation forces refused them access to treatment outside the besieged Strip, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)...

Some 700,000 suspected cases of cholera have hit Yemen, with the outbreak showing no signs of rescinding, the WHO has reported. In its plan to tackle the disease, the...

The World Health Organisation’s latest report — “Health Access for referral patients from the Gaza Strip” — provides details of the hardships experienced by Palestinians living in Gaza and...

Israeli authorities delayed or denied two out of every five patients in the Gaza Strip’s access to medical care outside of the besieged coastal enclave in July, the World...

Amid a continuing civil war, poor medical services and widespread poverty, the number of people hit by cholera in Yemen has reached 612,703 since the outbreak began in April,...

Heavy rain fall in southern Yemen has killed 18 people, Reuters has reported. The rain flooded Al-Maqatra Wadi in the Lahij province, south west of Ta’iz city. Cars and...

A total of 2,018 people have been killed by a cholera epidemic in war-torn Yemen since late April, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Saturday. In a statement, the WHO said...