UAE – World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited hospitals in Kabul on Tuesday, in the first high level visit from the organisation to Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country. The first African to lead the WHO accompanied the group’s director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari, to meet Taliban leaders, health workers and …

After the Covid-19 pandemic, Thai’s now view the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an unreliable source on health issues, Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs, a specialist at Bangkok’s Vichaiyut Hospital, said. He pointed out that WHO is quite slow in providing information. Especially when they inform the public on certain issues, these tend to change constantly. The organization previously caused Thais to …

We have just entered the second phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO). What was fashionably referred to as “social distancing” has now given way to “physical distancing”, with having one metre as a physical measure for us to “safely” distance ourself with the other person. According to the World Health Organisation, 1m is the average distance for the droplets …