Health

Latest: Sushma Swaraj steps in to help ailing Indian worker in Oman Muscat: This is Bikku Prasad, an Indian worker who came to Oman hoping for a new...

Muscat: Thirty years, 116 needle-punctures, 5,800 millilitres of donated blood, countless lives saved, and still going strong. For 53-year-old Ahmed bin...

Muscat: Deaths from diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases should drop by 25 per cent in Oman in the next five years, an official at the...

Muscat: Land and water rescue teams responded to 976 emergency calls in 2015 - an average of more than two call-outs every day. Fewer people required the...

Muscat: A team from the Directorate General of Muscat Municipality in Muttrah’s inspection and food control department on Sunday seized 600kg of meat...

Muscat: Thousands of visits were made by Muscat Municipality officials to check food hygiene during the first quarter of this year, the authority tweeted on...

Muscat: Electrical faults accounted for a third of all fires in 2015, and a rise in the number of fires last year kept the Public Authority for Civil...

Muscat: Ambulance responses to emergencies rose in 2015, according to statistics from the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA). There...

Muscat: Limited social interaction, lack of sign language speakers and a shortage of assisted hearing equipment are the key challenges to Oman’s hearing...

Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced the eighth case of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Oman this year. The case was recorded in Dhofar...