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World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ded to do – save lives and prevent disease,’’ said ambassador Luis Felipe Seixas de Corrêa, the Brazilian diplomat who chaired the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body of the FCTC. The 6th round of negotiations, which arrived at the final text, finished on 1 March 2003. The FCTC will be open for signature at WHO ...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ded to do – save lives and prevent disease,’’ said ambassador Luis Felipe Seixas de Corrêa, the Brazilian diplomat who chaired the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body of the FCTC. The 6th round of negotiations, which arrived at the final text, finished on 1 March 2003. The FCTC will be open for signature at WHO ...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ded to do – save lives and prevent disease,’’ said ambassador Luis Felipe Seixas de Corrêa, the Brazilian diplomat who chaired the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body of the FCTC. The 6th round of negotiations, which arrived at the final text, finished on 1 March 2003. The FCTC will be open for signature at WHO ...

Grant of $7 million for Orissa Medical College from Japan

...ere signed and exchanged here Thursday by Japanese ambassador Yasukuni Enoki and Vivek Mehrotra, additional secretary in India's finance ministry. The grant will help the institute - a pioneer centre in dispensing healthcare to undernourished children - to provide improved diagnostic and medical health servic...

Time for A.R.Rahman to rock the Tuberculosis Awareness Programme

... Inaugurating the network, Rahman, who is a global ambassador for the International Stop TB Partnership, met patients in west Delhi's Mongolpuri area. He also interacted with them about the treatments available and encouraged them to avail of these. "Every individual is important for the country and hence it i...

Running Water Restored In Chinese City

...inister made an unusual public apology to Moscow's ambassador to Beijing for damage caused by the benzene spill, which is flowing toward a city in the Russian Far East. Officials in Khabarovsk were preparing emergency plans including the possible shutdown of its water system. Meanwhile, authorities in southwes...

Debra Winger Wants Indians Abroad To Help Visually Impaired

...y blind, but she came out of it, is today a global ambassador for Sight Savers International. ‘The purpose of my trip is not to promote but to learn because I have not been to India before,’ said the actress who starred in such films as ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’ and ‘Terms Of Endearment’. ‘India is importa...

Yoga Guru appointed Bihar's brand ambassador

...and ayurveda in the state but also to act as brand ambassador of Bihar," Nitish Kumar said in the presence of the tele-guru. He was speaking at the conclusion of Ramdev's seven-day yoga training camp here that drew large crowds. During his weeklong stay in this capital, the Bihar government had accorded him t...

Pranab Mukherjee Urged Military Doctors To Remain On The Cutting Edge

...the potential threat of an avian flu pandemic, the ambassador called for "collective action" to avert this. "We depend in the first instance on you to help your respective governments and the international community to protect them." Addressing the gathering, Surgeon Vice Admiral V.K. Singh spoke of the need ...

Viswanathan Anand Is To Be Avahan’s HIV-AIDS Ambassador in Indi

...nced Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand as its HIV-AIDS ambassador in India. // The officials said that Anand, in his new role, would raise awareness of the disease in the country.The official release said that Anand's desire to raise the visibility of India's HIV disease is a welcomed step in reducing the stigma an...

Leprosy Cured People In India To Be Trained By Japanese Trust

...who is also the World Health Organisation goodwill ambassador for leprosy, told IANS. He said that cured leprosy patients would be provided micro credit to start their own business and encouraged to start dairies and poultry farms so that they lead an "independent life of dignity". The philanthropist, who ha...

Bulgarian Nurses Involved In Infecting Libyan Children with AIDS Undergo Retrial

... Milan) in the next two weeks for treatment. Libya ambassador and Bulgarian ambassador met at Tripoli, to discuss the publication of Kadhafi cartoons in the Bulgarian daily Novinar. The c...

US Offers Specialized Equipment To Fight Bird Flu In Nigeria

...irst aid kits, gloves and disinfecting brushes. US ambassador John Campbell said, "We have not given up the fight to stamp out this horrible disease." He added that the Nigerian government had helped during Hurricane Katrina "so when your government made these supply shortages known to us, we were only too hap...

Actor Anil Kapoor Supports Birth Registration Cause

...s supporting and has agreed to work as a goodwill ambassador to promote birth registration, as part of the Uni...l choice as ambassador. "The need was to have an ambassador who himself believed in the message and had full commitment towards it. I am glad a celebrity like A...

Japanese NGO Assures Rs 75 Lakh for Leprosy Centre Relocation

...akawa, President of Nippon Foundation and goodwill ambassador of World Health Organisation (WHO) gave the assurance when he visited the Satya Jeevan Kushta Ashram on July 16, the Federation of Leprosy Organisations said in a statement here today. The rooms in the Ashram, a 20-year-old leprosy centre in Lajpat ...

Jackie Chan in Anti-bird flu Advertisement

... film star and martial arts expert who is goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children's fund Unicef, urges the youngsters to stay away from dead or sick birds, warning them that bird flu can be transmitted to humans. He then adds that playing with paper birds is fine. In a statement Chan said "it was...

Go Green with Popeye: Learn why his eyes pop out for spinach!

...mention of the green goodies//. An acclaimed brand ambassador of spinach and an icon that little kids swear by, what is the secret behind the 77 year old sailor’s eyes, who still boasts of a perfect vision without the help of appendages? Scientists from the University of Manchester, armed with a novel eye devi...

Chinese doctors for Awareness On Hepatitis B

...patitis Prevention and Control to be the publicity ambassador for the prevention and control of the disease. GYT...

Saudi Arabia for Enhancing Health Sector Ties with India

...tial, Saleh Nin Mohammed Al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to India, said: "India is a beautiful country and a lot of our people are willing to come here. We are a small but growing country and I am sure we can be a good partner for India." Al-Ghamdi said the health minister's visit would further open Saud...

Promote Health Tourism, Say US-Based Malayalis

Kerala should appoint a brand ambassador to boost its health tourism industry in the US, sa...as a destination for medical tourism. "The brand ambassador should attract the attention of the entire US. If Kerala does it, there will be an unending stream o...

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