#WHO
+++ Nachrichten im Nahost-Krieg +++: Panzer im Süden Gazas gesichtet
Row between WHO and Israel over military notification to move Gaza medical supplies
#WorldHealthOrganization's executive board will hold a rare #EmergencySession on December 10 to discuss the #HealthCrisis in #Gaza & #WestBank, with the #Palestinian envoy seeking more #MedicalAid & access for #ForeignHealthCareWorkers.
#WHO confirmed on Monday it had received a request from 15 countries to hold the session, which will be convened by Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in consultation with the #Qatari chair.
https://www.voanews.com/a/who-board-to-hold-emergency-meeting-on-gaza-health-situation-/7384005.html
"New report says disease-carrying mosquitoes thrive in rising temperatures, leading to transmission in hitherto unaffected areas"
"‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic, WHO rules"
As temperatures rise, dengue fever infections keep surging around the world
"Dengue is always a plane ride away"
Scientists say mosquito-transmitted viral infection could impact more regions thanks to climate change
Half of world's population now at risk
WHO scientists ring alarms
#climatecrisis #health #usa #infectiousdisease #biology #who #virus #mosquitos #denguefever #india #eu #pakistan #news
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/dengue-fever-climate-change-1.7043918?cmp=
First #WHO Global Clinical Trials Forum puts forward a global vision for sustainable clinical research infrastructure
#ClinicalTrial #ClinicalResearch
https://www.who.int/news/item/29-11-2023-first-who-global-clinical-trials-forum-puts-forward-a-global-vision-for-sustainable-clinical-research-infrastructure
I Can See for Miles
#Who
https://youtu.be/62ZJn0cTASo
"Although data on the long-term impact of the #climate crisis is scarce, the #WHO’s world #malaria report, published on Thursday, said rising temperatures have contributed to malaria transmission in African highland areas that were previously free of the disease. This is the first time the annual report has had an entire chapter dedicated to the climate crisis and its links to malaria."
‘Forever chemical’ in #English #TapWater samples #carcinogenic, #WHO rules
Exclusive: Move to categorise #PFOA as linked to cancer in humans by #WorldHealthOrganization ups pressure on #UK government
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/forever-chemical-in-english-tap-water-samples-carcinogenic-who-rules
#PublicHealth
My Generation
#Who
https://youtu.be/OiSKu7SbGNQ
Links and images and conflicting messages from the coalition - #NZ Govt coalition's #WHO policy leaves public #health expert 'baffled' https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/503646/coalition-s-who-policy-leaves-public-health-expert-baffled
#WHO's annual #malaria report spotlights the growing threat of #ClimateChange https://www.who.int/en/news/item/30-11-2023-who-s-annual-malaria-report-spotlights-the-growing-threat-of-climate-change
This week, CERN introduced its Open Source Program Office (OSPO) to further embrace open source and promote transparent and inclusive research practices.
During the inauguration, experts from #nvidia , the #WHO, and the @oshwassociation discussed the impact and future of open source at CERN Science Gateway.
Find out more about open source at CERN: https://opensource.web.cern.ch
“Mystery” #pneumonia in #China is mix of common respiratory germs, #WHO says
Reports caused alarm, but experts say it looks like a post-#COVID germ comeback, with #RSV, #adenovirus and #influenza surging. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/chinas-mystery-outbreak-likely-a-post-covid-surge-of-common-winter-germs/
With the quickly growing new #pandemic in #China and with the #CPP refusing to cooperate with the #WHO and trying to cover up the extent and facts of the #disease. It's time for the rest of the world to close their borders to all #chinese until they cooperate and truthfully work with the WHO and other health care organizations. We can't let them inflict another #Covid level #pandemic on the #world. Demand your #government protect you and your family. This time we know that China is obstructing the WHO and thousands of #children a day are being seen by their #hospitals, don't let it be your #child dying in #ICU!
I put a content warning on this pos, saying it's controversial. It shouldn't be!
With the quickly growing new #pandemic in #China and with the #CPP refusing to cooperate with the #WHO and trying to cover up the extent and facts of the #disease. It's time for the rest of the world to close their borders to all #chinese until they cooperate and truthfully work with the WHO and other health care organizations. We can't let them inflict another #Covid level #pandemic on the #world. Demand your #government protect you and your family. This time we know that China is obstructing the WHO and thousands of #children a day are being seen by their #hospitals, don't let it be your #child dying in #ICU!
I was skeptical about Russell T Davies coming back, and still am a little bit, but I've got to admit that was a top notch episode.
Israel has arrested Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital director and other medical personnel. They were traveling with patients as part of a World Health Organization convoy.
24-11-2023.
#Gaza
#Israel
#Palestine
#al_Shifa_hospital
#News
#Hospital
#Doctors
#Nurses
#WHO
#UN
Disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says amid Israeli siege
World Health Organization spokesman, #Christian_Lindmeier, said on Tuesday that from 180 new babies born in Gaza each day, 20 need specialist treatment which they are unable to receive due to the forced evacuations of hospitals ahead of #Israeli_attacks.
24-11-2023.
#WHO
#Gaza
#Hospitals
#Gazaunderattack
https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7304688473196236065
What’s behind China’s mysterious wave of childhood pneumonia? | Nature (institutional access)
#China is grappling with a surge in respiratory illnesses, including #pneumonia, in children. The World Health Organization #WHO said last week that common winter infections — rather than any new pathogens — are behind the spike in hospitalizations.
Werden nur die EU-Grenzwerte betrachtet, könnte man meinen, in Österreich wäre überall die Luft sauber. Aber gesund ist die Luft vielerorts noch immer nicht. Die für die #Gesundheit der Bevölkerung relevanten Richtwerte der #WHO werden vielerorts deutlich überschritten. https://vcoe.at/presse/presseaussendungen/detail/vcoe-who-richtwerte-fuer-pm2-5-feinstaub-im-vorjahr-an-allen-messstellen-ueberschritten-fuer-stickstoffdioxid-bei-75-prozent-der-messstellen
3. After spending some time on the emotions of #Israeli families receiving their released loved ones, the BTN video mentioned that what the #Palestinians were receiving in return was "hundreds of trucks cross[ing] the border, bringing much needed supplies", but without noting that this was only 187 out of the 800 trucks that were promised (and many many thousands needed), and without mentioning that the reason these supplies are so desperately needed has been due to deliberate and illegal Israeli #CollectivePunishment of the civilian population.
4. The single mention of the massive Palestinian #PalestinianDeathToll came late in the piece in a quote from a #UN #WHO figure with a heavy accent, and with footage that was out of date (and so with a lower figure), all of which distance this information from the intended audience. It was framed by the narrator saying "Israel has faced some criticism for the scale of its response" (an understatement), and was immediately followed by the narrator providing uncritical repetition of Israeli rebuttals, with a sudden shift in the soundtrack subtly implying that this is to be taken as conclusive.
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Meanwhile in Estonia: Rejection of the WHO. https://expose-news.com/2023/11/25/estonia-notifies-who-that-it-rejects-pandemic-treaty/ #Eesti #WHO #estland
“Mystery” pneumonia in China is mix of common respiratory germs, WHO says - Enlarge / Parents with children who are suffering from respiratory dise... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986656 #respiratoryinfections #infectiousdisease #pneumonia #covid-19 #outbreak #science #health #china #surge #flu #rsv #who
Ars Technica: “Mystery” pneumonia in China is mix of common respiratory germs, WHO says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986656 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #respiratoryinfections #Infectiousdisease #pneumonia #COVID-19 #outbreak #Science #Health #china #surge #flu #RSV #WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week reclassified the Omicron BA.2.86 variant—and its offshoots, including JN.1— as a variant of interest.
Meanwhile, a few other variants show rising proportions, the CDC said today. They include HV.1, now at 31.7%, HK.3, JD.1.1, and JG.3
#COVID19 #WHO #BA286 #JN1 #VariantofInterest @auscovid19
Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/who-upgrades-ba286-covid-19-variant-interest-us-proportions-grow
"Reducing #AirPollution to #WHO guideline levels would prevent a significant number of attributable deaths in the #EU-27; 253,000 from exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5); and 52,000 from exposure to #nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
For specific diseases, the greatest harm to human health (burden of disease) is from ischemic #HeartDisease for PM2.5 and #diabetes mellitus for NO2."
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/harm-to-human-health-from-air-pollution
#China's respiratory #illness #surge not as high as pre-pandemic: #WHO official https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-respiratory-illness-children-pneumonia-surge-who-pandemic-3948166
China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
Just to put the fears of a new #pandemic starting in #china into context. According to ProMed mail, the portal a lot of #media cite, there is apparently nothing unusual for the #WHO to ask for further information in such cases.
Also, the scientific community is well aware to tread carefully and does not want to spark the fears of a new pandemic.
Be warned: if you head over to ProMed Mail you will see a lot of alerts and updates. It's easy to become overwhelmed.
Cheap over-the-counter nail drug found to work on crippling flesh-eating disease | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/23/fungal-nail-drug-fosravuconazole-breakthrough-treating-neglected-flesheating-disease-mycetoma
#FungalNailInfections
#FleshAndBoneEatingDisease
#Africa
#Asia
#Americas
#Mycetoma
#Sudan
#Fosravuconazole
#DrugsForNeglectedDiseasesInitiative
#DNDI
#MycetomaResearchCentre
#MRC
#WHO
#Mexico
#SudanWar
“Al-Shifa hospital is now not really a hospital.”
In a recent report by Sky News, the World Health Organization has described Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital as a “death zone.” Journalist Dominic Waghorn sheds light on the critical situation inside the hospital, which has deteriorated to the point of being barely functional.
19-11-2023.
#Gaza
#Al_Shifa_Hospital
#WHO
#Palestine
https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7303212473581079841
“#Pregnant individuals and #children face "extreme #HealthRisks from #climate catastrophes," according to a report released this week by the World Health Organization (#WHO) and other #UnitedNations agencies. “ https://mas.to/@dmacphee/111473969580561380
+++ Nachrichten im Nahost-Krieg +++: Weitere 14 Geiseln sollen freikommen
Oh, there is a Dr. #Who special airing today 🥳
#DoctorWho - 'Once and Future: Past Lives' [#ANIMATION] (First Four Minutes) - #BigFinish Visualizer
"Very simple animation of the first few minutes of Big Finish's Once and Future: Past Lives'"
Cases of respiratory illnesses have been surging in northern China, particularly among children, sparking speculation a new pandemic threat — though experts say there is little to suggest the cases were caused by a new virus. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/25/asia-pacific/science-health/china-respiratory-illness-explainer/?utm_content=buffer0c6f6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #sciencehealth #who #china #health #covid19
Respiratory cases rise
China denies pandemic spread
Data provided instead
#china #respiratory #who #haiku #poetry
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/who-asks-china-details-respiratory-illness-outbreaks-2023-11-23/
#DoctorWho vs #Loki - Opening Title Sequence (#FanProduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_wCH2RZCcw
#DrWho #Who #Disney #BBC #BBCTelevision #FanMade #Titles #TitleSequence #OpeningTitles #OliverSmart
Reports of overcrowding at pediatric hospitals in China have raised concerns about a jump in respiratory illnesses affecting children.
#news #china #who #pneumonia #health
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/23/world/asia/who-china-children-respiratory-illness.html?campaign_id=7&emc=edit_mbae_20231123&instance_id=108484&nl=morning-briefing%3A-asia-pacific-edition®i_id=219282970&segment_id=150841&te=1&user_id=255198a6259639703b2c7299b1ae32f9
Gehäufte Lungenentzündungen bei Kindern in #China haben die #WHO alarmiert. Nun gibt sie vorläufig Entwarnung: Nach Rücksprache mit chinesischen Behörden sei die Häufung auf verschiedene Erreger zurückzuführen. Von unserer Autorin @mariannefalck #Covid19 #RSV #Grippe #Kinder https://www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellschaft/who-gibt-entwarnung-ungeklaerte-lungenentzuendungen-bei-kindern-in-china-corona
China gibt Entwarnung bei Atemwegserkrankungen
Nach einer Zunahme von Atemwegserkrankungen - vor allem Lungenentzündungen bei Kindern - hatte die WHO China um Aufklärung gebeten. Nun gab die Volksrepublik Entwarnung: Der Anstieg der Infektionen gehe auf bekannte Erreger zurück. Von B. Eyssel
WHO fordert von China Aufklärung über Lungenentzündungen bei Kindern
In China treten derzeit bei Kindern verstärkt Fälle von Lungenentzündung auf. Peking führt das auf die Aufhebung der Corona-Maßnahmen zurück. Die WHO fordert Aufklärung. Von Benjamin Eyssel.
Who's ready for round 2 of the #Covid #pandemic?
WHO statement 👇
https://www.who.int/news/item/22-11-2023-who-statement-on-reported-clusters-of-respiratory-illness-in-children-in-northern-china
The #WHO has made an official request to #China for detailed information on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of #pneumonia in children.
details below
Baba O'Riley
#Who
https://youtu.be/8c1hYO_BYHY
The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (#MSF) said a clinic it operated in Gaza City was attacked on Monday morning. Part of the building was engulfed in flames, it said, and four marked MSF cars were burned while a fifth was found crushed by a heavy vehicle or a tank. The charity said it was not immediately aware of the status of one member of staff and 20 family members.
Twenty-eight premature babies were rescued from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and taken to #Egypt on Monday. The head of the World Health Organization (#WHO) said 31 “very sick” babies were moved from #alShifa hospital in a joint operation with the #UN and the #Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and 12 of them had been flown to Cairo. Three babies remain in #Gaza.
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From the Guardian: Israeli forces continued their offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza, closing in on the Indonesian hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks. The head of the World Health Organization (#WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was “appalled” by reports that 12 people, including patients, were killed in overnight shelling at the last hospital operating in northern #Gaza. Some 200 patients have been evacuated from the Indonesian #hospital on Monday, Gaza’s health ministry has said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that #health services in Gaza have suffered “catastrophic” damage, with most hospitals no longer functioning. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme, warned that the thousands of injuries sustained by civilians across Gaza, combined with the growing public health crisis in the besieged enclave, is a “recipe for epidemics”. He also described #Israel’s cooperation for humanitarian relief in Gaza as “subpar”.
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Address of Palestine Mission to the United Nations [full text and video]
Mr. Chair. Given that a number of states have spoken about Palestine directly, we have prepared three replies which we will read one after the other, and we kindly ask for your indulgence in that regard. We will first respond to Israel's statement.
Mr. Chair, at the outset, let us remind Israel that our name is not the "Palestinian Authority,"" but the State of Palestine. Sure, your finance minister said at an event in Paris earlier this year, there is no such thing as a Palestinian people. And your prime minister on the 24th of September held up a map at the General Assembly entitled "The New Middle East" in which Palestine was deleted and replaced entirely with Israel. But if your government is annexationist and racist, this body is not, and we ask you to kindly adhere to UN protocol and nomenclature, and to show respect to all stakeholders in this room.
Let us also remind the Israeli delegate that the lack of rules of procedure for this meeting does not give "carte blanche" to lose all sense of decorum when speaking to interlocutors in this room.
To the other states and civil society in the room, let me simplify Israel's statement for you. Other than throwing insults around and making grave, baseless accusations, #Israel said something that should make all of you shudder. It effectively said, "I can kill any and every person in Gaza."
The 2.3 million people in #Gaza are either terrorists, or terrorists sympathizers, or human shields. And are therefore legitimate targets. Every person according to Israel falls into one of these three categories, a child, a journalist, a doctor, a UN staff, a newborn baby in an incubator. And so according to Israel, it can kill them, and then have the audacity to come to this room and tell the world with a straight face: we are acting in accordance with international law.
The death of each of the over 11,350 people killed over the past month, be it children, journalists, UN staff, the sick, the elderly, according to Israel, was justified.
Think about that for a moment and let it give you pause. Anyone is espousing this warped logic has no shred of humanity, no sense of morality and no knowledge of legality. But guess what? Your carpet explanation for carpet bombing will not fly. People are not fools. The people in this room are seasoned diplomats, who are well-read, have a knowledge of history and many of whom have seen your government make the same arguments during your six previous military aggression on Gaza in the past 15 years.
They have seen you resort to collective punishment targeting of Palestinian children, journalists, medical staff, aid workers before.
They have seen you forcibly transfer our communities, colonize our lands, demolish our homes and evict families from their own properties, since the 7th of October and for the 75 years that preceded it.
They have seen your state-sponsored disinformation campaign before.
Again, not fools don't insult our intelligence. By saying that it is acting in accordance with international law, Israel is effectively saying the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the #WHO, #UNICEF, OCHA, UN Special Reporters, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Situation, Human Rights Organizations worldwide, Disarmament NGOs worldwide, Humanitarian NGOs worldwide, countless legal experts are all wrong.
Everyone is lying about Israel violating international law, and we are asked instead to believe Israel, the state that is actually doing the indiscriminate killing.
It is interesting that by saying even wars have rules, Israel quoted the very same UN Secretary General whose resignation it has called for, because he dared to say that Israel has a history of occupying Palestinian land.
The dissonance of hearing the Israeli representative talk about wars having rules, as it commits #genocide, and breaches every rule in the book, live on our TV screens, is quite something.
To Israel, we say we see through your PR and #disinformation. The whole world sees through your PR and disinformation. The millions of people filling the streets in every major capital of the world, calling you out for genocide, sees through your PR and disinformation.
Perhaps you think that with your incendiary rhetoric, we will all forget the incitement, the declarations and acts of Israeli officials, the people you represent, to wipe out Gaza, to drop a new clear bomb on the Palestinian people, to destroy the "human animals" and children of darkness.
Perhaps you think that your constant intimidation and threatening language will make everyone overlook the fact that Israel is, as we speak, killing babies, youth, women, men, elderly, no one too small or too old or too sick to be spared its wrath.
Perhaps you think that by cutting off telecommunications and imposing yet another blackout on Gaza, you can continue to commit genocide, while avoiding the annoyance of people being able to use their phones and computers to report on it.
Perhaps you think that as your trigger-happy soldiers continue to kill journalists - 41 so far, the highest number of journalists killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in the last three decades - you think that no one will be left to expose your crimes.
Perhaps you think that by trying to silence anyone who tries to speak about your crimes, the international law violations of the state, by calling them either #antisemites or terror supporters, people will be silent.
And your intimidation campaign knows no bounds.
They attack Palestinians, Jews, Israelis, UN officials, politicians, parliamentarians, university professors, and anyone worldwide, who calls you out for your violations of international law.
But guess what, your intimidation and silencing will not work. We, along with all peace-loving nations and along with all people of conscience around the world, will not be silent. We will continue to call you out on your crimes to call for accountability for your violations, for sanctions as your government continues to reject calls for a ceasefire to massacre our people and to entrench your colonial occupation and apartheid regime.
Something your country should have learned over the past 75 years, is that the Palestinian people are a people who refuse to disappear, and your new clear threats and your bombs and your tanks and your bulldozers will never break the Palestinian people's will to be free, and to live in the dignity and peace, to which all people are entitled.
Unlike you, we have consistently stood in this forum calling for respect for international law, for ethical principles to guide state behavior, for peace over war, for humanity over national interests, for disarmament over destruction. Once again, we stand in this forum to call on all states to respect and ensure respect for international law. Let the law be the measure by which all are judged, not propaganda and hateful bias spin steeped in racism.
And to Israel's absurd assertion that Palestinians have a problem with people of Jewish faith, and give the impression that this is a religious conflict. Let us say loud and clear this is not and has never been about religion. Had the occupiers of our land or the violators of our rights, bin Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist or of any other conviction, we would have called them out all the same.
#Palestine has always been multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious. People of Jewish faith have lived in historic Palestine as Palestinians for centuries. We consider them to be our brothers and sisters.
And since the memory of the #Holocaust has been invoked, let us also say loud and clear: we have the greatest of solidarity with both the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. It was not Palestinians that committed that horrific genocide, but the fascist forces that spawned from Europe. And it is unconscionable that a number of European leaders are again beating the drum as another genocide is now underway in Gaza.
We are united with those hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world, including from organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, Namod UK, who are calling out this genocide and chanting in the streets of New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Toronto and all major Western cities, so that their governments can hear: "not in our name", end the genocide in Gaza. With them, we stand together to end this pain and suffering. Together, we will not allow this to happen. Never again is now.
Officials of the World Health Organisation #WHO about #AlShifa in #Gaza yesterday:
the hospital: "a death zone"
the situation: “desperate”:
Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and were told more than 80 people were buried there. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition.
#ceasefirenow
https://www.emro.who.int/media/news/who-leads-very-high-risk-joint-humanitarian-mission-to-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza.html?format=html
The World Health Organization said it had led an assessment mission to Shifa hospital in Gaza City and determined it was a "death zone," urging a full evacuation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/19/world/who-gaza-hospital-death-zone/?utm_content=bufferc26a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #gaza #israel #israelhamaswar #hamas #who
Measles rises globally amid vaccination crash; WHO and CDC sound the alarm - Enlarge / A baby with measles. (credit: CDC)
The World Health... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1984844 #vaccinationcoverage #infectiousdisease #outbreak #science #measles #vaccine #health #deaths #cases #cdc #mmr #who
one of the largest in the #Palestinian territory, and that 3 ambulances were also searched. The #IDF say they carried out a major raid in #Jenin , killing at least three suspected #Hamas fighters. The #WHO says there have been more than 170 attacks on health care in the West Bank alone since the 7th Oct.
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has acknowledged that there are sharp differences between his country and Turkey over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. (cont.)
The #Israeli army says it's found the body of a second woman who was held #hostage by #Hamas, during a search close to #Gaza's biggest hospital. Troops are still searching in and around Al-#Shifa hospital.
The #WHO says 6 paramedics were searched and detained on Friday in #Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The organisation says the incident happened as the health workers were leaving Ibn Sina hospital, (cont.)
#WTF Dave Harden, Fmr #USAID West Bank/Gaza Mission Director: “when I was in seat, it was broadly suspected/understood as far back as 2014 that #Hamas used the #AlShifa Hospital complex as a command center and base for operations.”
https://nitter.net/Dave_Harden/status/1724770878670434732
I might be naive here but, if it was common knowledge in his circles already 10 years ago (ie more than the speculation the media was discussing for years), shouldn’t he have made this information public, so to protect Gaza civilians?
Alerting the international community, and possibly #WHO, would have allowed them to condition continued financial and technical support on Hamas evacuating the complex, demand an inspection etc… so to guarantee continued operation during a potential war/escalations?
Options for evacuating #Gaza's Al Shifa hospital limited - #WHO official (there are still 600 patients, no fuel for ambulances, no guarantees that ISR won’t target ambulances) @palestine @israel
Zu wenig Impfungen: Zahl der Masernfälle steigt weltweit
#WRF Dave Harden, Fmr #USAID West Bank/Gaza Mission Director: “when I was in seat, it was broadly suspected/understood as far back as 2014 that #Hamas used the #AlShifa Hospital complex as a command center and base for operations.”
https://nitter.net/Dave_Harden/status/1724770878670434732
I might be naive here but, if it was common knowledge in his circles already 10 years ago (ie more than the speculation the media was discussing for years), shouldn’t he have made this information public, so to protect Gaza civilians?
Alerting the international community, and possibly #WHO, would have allowed them to condition continued financial and technical support on Hamas evacuating the complex, demand an inspection etc… so to guarantee continued operation during a potential war/escalations?
Das Al-Schifa-Spital in #Gaza-Stadt ist nach Angaben der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (#WHO) „als Krankenhaus nicht mehr funktionsfähig“. WHO-Chef Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus bestätigte am Montag, was sich zuletzt abgezeichnet hatte. Das Areal um das größte Spital in Gaza ist im Fokus der israelischen #Offensive gegen die radikalislamische #Hamas. #Israel vermutet unter dem Spital einen zentralen Hamas-Kommandoposten. Im Krankenhaus sollen sich noch (…) https://orf.at/stories/3339663/ #Ausland
#WHO: Kontakt zu Schifa-Klinik – Lage verheerend https://orf.at/stories/3339605/ #Ausland
Die #WHO betreibt antisemitische Propaganda, wenn bloß ein Teil vom #Hamaskrieg erzählt wird und die wahren Verhältnisse in Gaza verschleiert werden.
Far-right MP Leslyn Lewis, Pierre Poilievre’s “Shadow Minister” for Infrastructure and Communities, is sponsoring a petition which calls for Canada’s “expeditious withdrawal from the UN and all of its subsidiary organizations, including WHO.”
#cdnpoli #canpoli #farright #religiousright #con #cpc #leslynlewis #pp #Poillievre #UN #WHO
Connecting the dots on #Health and #ClimateChange
“Anytime you postpone, OK, are you ready to cope with that?” said Maria Neira, the doctor in charge of environmental health at the #WHO. “You have to live with that weight on your shoulders of the fact that you are at least not saving those lives – I don’t want to say killing – but at least not protecting the lives of those people.”
Hi, everyone! Time to formally introduce myself in #Mastodon
My name is Matteo (@macesari)
Scientist at the World Health Organization (#WHO) in Geneva (#Switzerland), and Professor of #Geriatrics and #Gerontology (on leave) at the University of Milan (#Italy)
I post on #Medicine, #PublicHealth, #Ageing (or #Aging), #Care... But also on #Roma (where I am from) and #ASRoma (my favourite/only #football team)
Other hobbies: #reading, #movies, #Running
One wife, three kids, one #dog
WHO head Ghebreyesus says his organisation continues to be "gravely concerned" about the condition of #hostages held by #Hamas .
In a post on X, he expressed particular concern for children, women, older people, and those with health conditions requiring immediate medical attention.
" #WHO , once again, calls for the immediate release of all the hostages," he wrote.
More on the #Israeli hostages held by hamas since 7 Oct:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67053011
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 611
White House says Russia is executing soldiers who fail to follow orders; Moscow criticises Ukraine-backed peace talks in Malta
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/27/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance-what-we-know-on-day-611
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #UN #UnitedNations #WHO #WorldHealthOrganization #US #UnitedStates #Ukraine #Russia #Malta #RussianInvasion #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar
Polish election result could deal a serious blow to Orbán on EU affairs
Sunday's election results suggest that Poland will replace its governing parties, ending the eight-year reign of the Law and Justice (PiS).
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #UN #UnitedNations #WHO #WorldHealthOrganization #Hungary #Poland #Orban #ViktorOrban
#WHO stmt says the lives of those in intensive care or who rely on life support; newborns in incubators, and many others hang in the balance:
"Forcing more than 2,000 patients to relocate to southern #Gaza could be tantamount to a death sentence"
health workers have overwhelmingly chosen to stay behind, rather than risk moving their critically ill patients, a choice it calls "impossible".
It calls for #Israel "to reverse #evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza"
The conditions in #Gaza are "fast becoming untenable," #UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said. "I fear that the worst is yet to come Humanity is failing."
So far at least five planes carrying humanitarian relief have arrived in Egypt's Sinai, Red Cross #ICRC officials said.
The #WHO said a plane carrying trauma medicines and health supplies had also landed.
Al Arish airport on #Sinai is about 45 km from the Gaza border, but the #Rafah crossing with #Egypt remains closed.
#Israel #hamas
The World Health Org labeled #Israel’s orders to #evacuate 22 #hospitals in N #Gaza a “death sentence,” & called for a reversal of the mandate.
In a Sat stmnt, the #WHO condemned the order, saying the lives of patients “hang in the balance.” They said some patients are being treated outside in the streets as #doctors face an “impossible” decision of whether to risk their own lives to treat patients or endanger the lives of the patients & bring them to facilities that may not have capacity.
WHO strongly condemns Israels repeated orders for evacuation of hospitals in northern Gaza
> The World Health Organization "strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 inpatients in northern #Gaza," the organization said in a statement. #WHO stressed that forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further "worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe."
https://www.anews.com.tr/middle-east/2023/10/14/who-strongly-condemns-israels-repeated-orders-for-evacuation-of-hospitals-in-northern-gaza #Israel #Palestine #Hamas
The #WorldHealthOrganization #WHO said Tues evening that it had documented 22 attacks by Israeli forces on #MedicalCenters & ambulances that killed 6 people. It wasn’t clear whether any of the #UN workers were included in that figure. On Wednesday, the #Palestine #RedCrescentSociety #PRCS, part of the International Federation of #RedCross & RedCrescent Societies, said its #ambulances have been targeted by Israeli strikes. 1 strike killed 3 #medics, it said, & another strike killed another medic.
The #WorldHealthOrganization announced Wed that the Pres of #Egypt Abdel Fatah El-Sisi will let #WHO use the #Rafah crossing to get #humanitarian supplies to #Gaza.
The #IDF said Tues that the crossing, the only way out of Gaza, was closed after an area strike, incl’g an underground smuggling tunnel.
#Israel #Hamas #war
https://www.who.int/news/item/10-10-2023-who-calls-for-access-to-health-and-humanitarian-assistance-on-fourth-day-of-conflict-in-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory
So as Doctor Who approaches it's 60th Anniversary, and NuWho approaches it's 20th anniversary (so one third of the entire Who History) should the fandom find a different moniker for NuWho ?
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Die #UN einigen sich auf ein Abkommen gegen schmutzige #Chemikalien 🚜
die #WHO empfiehlt einen weiteren #Malaria-Impfstoff 💉
und die Abgabe auf Einweg-#Plastik in 🇩🇪rückt näher
👇Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da
#BBCNews - #Malaria #vaccine big advance against major child killer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66985273
A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the #WHO
Viruses vanish now
Flu vaccines to the rescue
Adapting to change
"#AmericanBeverage, a trade and lobbying group representing #CocaCola, #PepsiCo and other companies…paid an undisclosed amount to 10 registered dietitians, as well as a physician and a fitness influencer, to use their social media accounts to help blunt the #WHO’s claims that #aspartame, a mainstay of Diet Coke and other sodas, is ineffective for weight loss and 'possibly carcinogenic.'"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/13/dietitian-instagram-tiktok-paid-food-industry/
(#paywalled)
#Who #Won (and #Lost) the Second #Republican #Debate.
Happily, I am well-positioned to answer this #question. Here’s who won and lost the first round of the GOP’s #battle for #secondplace.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Racism #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/who-won-and-lost-the-second-republican-debate.html
Die Cholera breitet sich weltweit wieder vermehrt aus. Sauberes Trinkwasser ist der Schlüssel im Kampf gegen die Krankheit. Den nachhaltigen Entwicklungszielen der UN zufolge soll bis 2030 jeder Mensch Zugang zu sauberem Wasser haben. Doch laut WHO gibt es Rückschritte: @christianschwaegerl https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/cholera-welle-weltweit-sauberes-wasser-lebenswichtig
98% of Europeans live in areas where the air is clogged with more #toxic particles than #WHO safe air recommendation we breathe.
Europeans live in #FossilFuelAusterity today:
"The new analysis found only 2% of the population of Europe live in areas within [the #WHO guidelines for #ParticulateMatter pollution]. Experts say PM2.5 pollution causes about 400,000 deaths a year across the continent.
Traffic, industry, domestic heating and agriculture are the main sources of PM2.5 and the impact is often felt disproportionately by the poorest communities."
Acc to a recent #WHO assessment, #Nigeria is facing a high risk of a #diphtheria outbreak at the national level
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON485#:~:text=Since%20epidemiological%20week%2026%2C%20ending,(LGAs)%20in%2011%20states.
(2/2) Please note that this is the last edition of the COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update. Moving forward, as WHO transitions its COVID-19 surveillance from an emergency response to long-term COVID-19 disease prevention, control and management, we will be providing updates every four-weeks, with the next edition set to be published on 28 September 2023.