Get Coronavirus Updates From WHO On WhatsApp; Here’s How

In a bid to curb fake news and provide information to billions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has started a health alert service on COVID-19 on WhatsApp. Users can just ...

Coronavirus Has Spread To Hot & Humid Climates: WHO

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5 years ago

Busting a myth, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Philippines on Wednesday said that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread to countries having hot and humid climates as well as dry ...

Coronavirus: WHO Declares Pandemic

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5 years ago

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday declared the widespread coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic. It has spread to 114 countries with 118,000 cases reported so far. “We are deeply ...

Coronavirus: WHO Declares Global Emergency

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5 years ago

As the death toll rose to 213 in China, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global emergency for the Coronavirus epidemic. The Indian embassy in Beijing is reportedly planning ...

World No Tobacco Day: Let’s Know What Experts, Teenagers Says Bhubaneswar: Today the world celebrates ‘World No Tobacco Day’ (WNTD). The annual campaign is an opportunity to raise awareness on the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure, and to discourage the use of tobacco in any form. The report also revealed that tobacco killed 10 crores of people in the 20th century. Annually 80 lakh people die of tobacco related illnesses and of these; 10 lakh deaths occur due to second hand smoke. “Tobacco kills one person every 4 seconds. In India 42 % of men, 14 % of women and 28 % (27 crores) of all adults currently use tobacco (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco), report says. The campaign also serves as a call to action, advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption and engaging stakeholders across multiple sectors in the fight for tobacco control. Odisha Bytes spoke to some teenagers and doctor to know the ill effect of consuming tobacco: Dr. Kunal Jha, Associate Professor of Department of Public and Dentistry of Kalinga Institute Of Medical Science said, “We are trying to create a tobacco free society on this World No Tobacco Day.” We always prefer the educational approach through which we are able to educate the people to create awareness. As we are dentist so, not only lungs cancer, but we focused on oral cancer also, Odisha state is leading among all the states in India and here smokeless forms of Tobacco are mainly used here.” We have also conducted webinar on “Tobacco counseling in Covid times” today.” Dr Sourav Kumar Mishra, DM (Cancer Institute, Chennai), ECMO and Associate Professor of Department of Medical Oncology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar said, “Globally 18 lakh deaths are caused by lung cancer annually. Smoking is the most common preventable cause of lung cancer. Smokers are 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer in their lifetime, compared with non-smokers. Annually 68,000 new cases of lung cancers are diagnosed in India.” Ayushman Misra, a software engineer in TCS said, “I've generally had smokers around me. Indeed, even my father was one and he utilized work, stress and even obstruction as a reason for it. I got smoking when I was 21, mature enough to realize what hurt it does. I frequently wound up utilizing similar reasons that my father did. I quit a few times in the middle of - particularly at whatever point I got respiratory contaminations - however my inclination to clear consistently won out. That is until I got determined to have three unique maladies that are misrepresented by smoking. Over the most recent eight months, I've burned through five not smoking by any stretch of the imagination.”3

E-Cigarettes Don’t Help Reduce Cancer, Says WHO

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5 years ago

Geneva: Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products are not helping fight cancer, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, urging smokers and governments not to trust claims from cigarette firms ...

43 Officials To Oversee Healthcare Service In 5 Cyclone-Hit Districts

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6 years ago

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has deputed 43 senior officials and doctors of the Health and Family Welfare department to oversee healthcare services in five coastal districts which were badly affected by ...

Radio Waves From Cell Phone Can Damage Brain Cells: Expert

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6 years ago

Bhubaneswar: Radio waves from a cell phone can affect the metabolism of the brain. The more powerful the cell phone, greater is the danger, eminent Neurosurgeon Prof Ashok Mohapatra has ...

14 Cities In India Among World’s 20 Most Polluted

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7 years ago

New Delhi: Fourteen Indian cities, including country’s capital New Delhi, are in top 20 most-polluted cities of the world. The AQI (Air Quality Index) near US Embassy in Delhi showed a ...

World Malaria Day: WHO Pat For Odisha

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7 years ago

Bhubaneswar: On World Malaria Day, WHO South East Asia tweeted an appreciation for the efforts of community health workers to tackle the problem in Odisha. Sleeping under an insecticide-treated net is one ...

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