Day: January 23, 2023

WHO Urges ‘Immediate Action’ After Cough Syrup Deaths

LONDON — The World Health Organization has called for “immediate and concerted action” to protect children from contaminated medicines after a spate of child deaths linked to cough syrups last year.In 2022, more than 300 children — mainly younger than …

Bengkulu distributes food aid to flood-affected residents

The Bengkulu provincial government has distributed 1.6 tons of rice, 1.6 tons of sugar, and 1.6 tons of flour as food assistance to flood-affected residents in Central Bengkulu District.The funds for the food assistance were sourced from the emergency…

Athlete promotes North Gorontalo as scenic paragliding site

The Gorontalo paragliding athlete Septian Lamadlaw promoted North Gorontalo District as a natural tourism site for conducting paragliding activities.”I was really amazed by the paragliding site here. One of the (paragliding tourism spots) is Dunu Peak,…

Bio Farma to launch kit for cervical cancer detection

State-run pharmaceutical enterprise Bio Farma is preparing to launch CerviScan, a domestic-made innovative polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based early detection kit for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.CerviScan could be an …