Health Events

Global Handwashing Day is celebrated on 15 October of each year. The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW) established Global Handwashing Day in 2008 as a way to promote a global and local vision of handwashing with soap. It was approved by world governments and organizations, civil society organizations, NGOs, private companies and individuals from all over the world.

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2016/Pages/HealthDay-2016-10-15.aspx

 

The World Alzheimer's Day is observed every year on September 21st; to identify the challenges and hardships of Alzheimer's disease and to shed light on it, showing the suffering patients endure around the world. It also calls for exerting every effort and working unremittingly to enhance the health care and increase support for Alzheimer's patients and their families

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/HealthDay/2016/Pages/HealthDay-2016-09-21.aspx

 

This annual event is marked on March 24th of every year to commemorate Dr. Robert Koch's discovery, in 1882, for tubercle bacillus causing tuberculosis (TB), which was the first step towards diagnosing the disease and its treatment. Current efforts are focused on the diagnosis and treatment of this disease

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2016/Pages/HealthDay-2016-03-24.aspx

 

The United Nations General Assembly declared 21 March as the World Down Syndrome Day, with effect from 2012, and invited all member states, relevant organizations of the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to observe the World Down Syndrome Day in an appropriate manner. The day is meant to raise public awareness of Down syndrome, and shed light on the group suffering from the disease in our society, and ensuring for them, children or adults alike, equal access to health services; which is critical to their empowerment and full participation in the society. http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2016/Pages/HealthDay-2016-03-21.aspx

The World Glaucoma Week (Blue Water) is celebrated every year in March to boost awareness on the Blue Water Disease (Glaucoma) and the international increase in the number of persons affected with it compared to the growth of population.

 

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2016/Pages/HealthDay-2016-03-06-12.aspx

 

Once, Polio (poliomyelitis) had raised concern all over the world, as it was developing abruptly, mainly affecting children and lasting for a lifetime. The World Health Organization (WHO) is a partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). This health partnership, considered to be the biggest between the governmental and private sectors, has managed to reduce polio incidence by 99%

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/healthDay/2015/Pages/HealthDay-2015-10-24.aspx