Health Events

The Genetic Blood Disorders Awareness Week falls on the period from 25 to 31 October every year. It is intended to encourage the provision of social and psychological care for patients, raise the society's knowledge of genetic blood disorders: their types, treatment and means of prevention. It also aims to draw attention to how patients can adapt to such diseases and disorders, and to shed light on the necessity of premarital examination, inasmuch as it one of the most common diseases, especially, in cases of endogamy

 

Are you aware that more than 10 million children could be paralyzed in the next 40 years if the world fails to work on its eradication? Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Among those paralyzed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.

 

Osteoporosis is usually dubbed: the ‘silent disease’, as it affects millions of people around over the world. The World Osteoporosis Day (WOD) is centered upon a crucial issue, manifested in this year's theme: “Love Your Bones”.

 

Online Interview with the Director of National e-Health Strategy

 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day (WFD) each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
 “FOOD PRICES – FROM CRISIS TO STABILITY” has been chosen as this year’s World Food Day theme to shed some light on this trend and what can be done to mitigate its impact on the most vulnerable.

 

World Mental Health Day is annually held on October 10 to raise public awareness about mental health issues worldwide. This event promotes open discussions on illnesses, as well as investments in prevention and treatment services.

 

The International Day of Older Persons, this year, pays thorough attention to identifying the challenges and obstacles impeding the agreements revolving around the provision of health care for the elderly in all over the world.

 

Cardiovascular diseases including heart attacks and strokes are the world’s largest killers, claiming 17.1 million lives a year. The aim of the World Heart Day is to raise public awareness of the importance of reducing risk factors leading to heart diseases to the lowest possible degree, by exercising regularly and controlling their weight.

 

disease (Alzheimer), and shed light on it, as well as the suffering of its victims around the world