According to the Deloitte Mental Health Survey, poor employee mental health costs Indian companies an estimated $14 billion a year in absenteeism, low productivity, and job losses. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that India bears about 15% of the global mental
In recent weeks, Monsoon rains broke the century record and dumped more than five times the average of the past 30 years in some provinces. These floods have killed “more than 1,200 people, including about 400 children”, said UNICEF Representative Abdullah Fadil.
Delhi has been ranked the most polluted city in the world as per a global analysis of air quality. The report, Air Quality and Health in Cities, released by US-based Health Effects Institute on Wednesday, analyses pollution and global health effects for
The World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday that more than 35,000 cases of monkeypox have already been reported in 92 countries and territories and that the disease has claimed 12 deaths. At a press conference in Geneva, the director general of the UN
The United States declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, a move that is expected to free up new funding, aid data collection and enable the deployment of additional personnel to combat the disease. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are sounding the alarm as new data shows that global vaccination coverage continued to fall in 2021, 25 million infants who have not received the vaccines that could have saved
In a new development, the first Indian monkeypox has been reported in Kerala. The patient travelled from UAE and reached the state on 12 July. Kerala Health Minister Veena George said that “all measures are being taken as per the guidelines issued
The number of people affected by hunger in the world has increased to reach 828 million in 2021, an increase of approximately 46 million compared to 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a UN report
The World Health Organization said that the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to restrict the abortion right will increase maternal mortality. WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that all women should be able to choose about their
Solaire Initiatives Pvt Ltd, a tech start-up has made a device that can produce oxygen from water. The device, OM Redox, is installed at the Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre in Kolkata, West Bengal. The co-founder of the start-up, Soumyajit Roy and his
