Health Events

The World Mental Health Day is to be observed on 10 October under the theme “Living with Schizophrenia”. The first observation of the World Mental Health Day was in 1992 as per an initiative from the World Federation for Mental Health, an international mental health organization including members and partners from more than 150 countries

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What is the initiative of the “Vision 2020: the Right to Sight” about? “Vision 2020: the Right to Sight” it is a global initiative launched by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)

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The World Heart Day is celebrated every year on September 29th to raise people's awareness of heart diseases and stroke, being the main cause for the death of 17.3 million persons annually, and this number is on the increase. By 2030, it is projected, almost 23.6 million people will die of heart diseases

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On September 21, 2014, the world is to celebrate the "World Alzheimer's Day" under the theme “Dementia: Can we reduce the risk?”. Its main purpose is to identify the challenges and hardships of Alzheimer's disease and shed light on the suffering of patients around the world. It also calls for exerting every effort and working unremittingly to enhance the health care sector and increase support for Alzheimer's patients and their families.

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The World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year over the period from 1-7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of the infants throughout the world. Breastfeeding is the best way to provide the newborns with the nutrients they need

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The World Hepatitis Day is celebrated every year on the twenty-eighth of July as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to boost the awareness on the viral hepatitis and the diseases that it causes. And, it also aims to raise the awareness on the disease and ways of transmission and prevention

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June 26, every year, marks the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which was first set by the UN General Assembly in 1987. In fact, drug abuse and addiction are reckoned one of the most dangerous psychological and social problems http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/HealthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-26.aspx

Sickle cell anemia is one of the genetic blood diseases causing disorder in the gene responsible for the formation of hemoglobin, and causing the sticking of these cells into the small blood cells and therefore reducing the flow of the blood and oxygen to the body organs http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-19.aspx

Blood donation is a noble behavior and human initiative performed by a healthy, sound person to a sick or injured person to help saving their life. To that effect, over 107 million donated blood units have been collected from all over the world

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World Environment Day is held on June 5 annually, and it is one of the main means through which the United Nations (UN) enhances the international awareness about the environment and its issues. Further, marking this Day, the UN seeks to shed more light on the environmental issues, and urge a political action to that effect http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-05.aspx

The World Milk Day is marked on the first of June every year. The world first celebrated it in 2001. Similarly, observing it, the world bodies aim to educate the communities on what pertains to the milk with respect to its sources, nutritional elements, its significance in terms of preventing from the diseases and maintaining the health. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-06-01.aspx

The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly six million people each year, of which more than 600.000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand smoke. Unless we adopt the required measures, the epidemic will kill more than eight million people every year by 2030 http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-31.aspx

Hypertension is defined as steady increase in pressurizing the blood vessels; this in turn strains the function of pumping the blood to the heart. Therefore, it is considered one of the main factors leading to the cardiovascular diseases http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-17.aspx

Thalassemia is a genetic disorder affecting the blood cells. It is characterized by decline, below the natural rate, in both the red blood corpuscles and the level of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is a protein in the red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-08.aspx

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease, quite prevalent among children. According to the WHO estimates, there are about 300.000.000 asthma patients around the world. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2014/Pages/HealthDay-2014-05-06.aspx