Posts Tagged ‘World Health Organisation’
More than 800 young children were admitted to Homerton Hospital with breathing difficulties in 2023
Clean air campaigners call for removal of diesel vehicles to be expedited
Read More‘It’s completely preventable’: Polio vaccine campaign to be rolled out this summer following low uptake across north London
Samples of the virus were discovered in sewage last year
Read MorePoliovirus detected in sewage from north-east London – with UK health bosses urging people to get vaccinated
Health Security Agency triggers national incident after finding two samples of the same virus at Beckton treatment works
Read More‘We owe it to residents’: Hackney Council set to adopt strict new limits on air pollution
Town Hall consulting on a raft of measures designed to help it meet rigorous World Health Organisation guidelines
Read MoreLocal public health director slams quality of data from national test-and-trace effort
Sandra Husbands says information ‘not particularly useful’ as former WHO director urges council to use its own data channels
Read MoreMedics in push to raise Hackney’s low vaccination rate
Uptake at some GP surgeries is around 50 per cent – far lower than the 95 per cent required for herd immunity
Read MoreCouncil to adopt ‘new approach’ to glyphosate weedkillers in wake of renewed health fears
‘Hackney Council need to stop using glyphosate altogether immediately. New solutions must be found,’ says campaigner
Read MoreGlyphosate used by council ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans, report finds
Director of Public Health Dr Penny Bevan says council will ‘continue to follow government guidance’
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