World Health Day 2018: The history Photogallery

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World Health Day, which is celebrated across the world has had a brief history of its inception. Let's have a look at it...

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On April 07, 2018, everyone celebrated the 69th World Health Day with fitness, health awareness and better well being.
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As is the case with all celebrations around the world, this day too has a history.
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The first World Health Day took place in 1949, not on 7th April but instead on 22nd July, the date that 61 nations had signed the charter of the World Health Organization at New York in 1946.
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This was done to encourage public interest in and support of the aims of the Organization.
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In 1949, individual governments were charged with organising health related events in their own countries.
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New Zealand led the way with a range of national and local events organized by branches of its United Nations Association.
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Ireland, Turkey, Austria, Italy and South Africa also responded, organising radio and cinema broadcasts, concerts, press releases and government-directed bible readings amongst other activities.
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The WHO headquarters in Geneva provided information about the organisation’s early success in combatting malaria in Italy and Greece, providing tuberculosis vaccines in India and responding to a typhus epidemic in Afghanistan.
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However, it didn't get praised with such enthusiasm.
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Some countries felt they hadn’t had enough time to prepare suitable activities, whilst others sensibly pointed out that holding such a celebration when most children were on school holidays would severely blunt its impact.
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