The health fraternity welcomes the new Director to DMS and wishes her the very best for the new endeavors. Tashi Delek la

𝙈𝙧 𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣 𝘿𝙤𝙧𝙟𝙞, Chief Program Officer of the Health Care & Diagnostic Division, Department of Medical Services joined as the 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 (𝗗𝗼𝗣𝗛) today. The ministry looks forward to his dynamic leadership in leading the department.

Reaching the unreached The vaccination team of Getana gewog walked for 6 hours to reach the Daga Tashi vaccination post under Chukha District to provide COVID-19 second dose vaccination.

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 ! With the main objective to leave no one behind, Pema Gatshel vaccination team reached Woongborang ORC ( Vaccination post) after a 3 hour walk from Yuri zampa where they vaccinated a total of 30 individuals including one individual who got vaccinated through the Home based vaccination service.

Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo visited the vaccination sites in Paro and Haa districts.

In the fight against this unseen enemy, people in Bhutan have come together in different ways showing the epitome of solidarity that can be written down in history.

Home based vaccination are being carried out for those individuals with mobility issues (bedridden/cannot walk).

Vaccination for children aged 12-17 years in Phuntsholing and Samtse.

The Hon’ble Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo visited the vaccination sites in Thimphu and assessed the whole vaccination process.

Gearing towards the second nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign starting from 20 July 2021, the Hon’ble Prime Minister Lyonchhen Dr Lotay Tshering was the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccination today. Lyonchhen received Moderna as his second dose.

Handing Taking Ceremony of 11 portable USG machines (02/07/2021)

Handing Taking Ceremony of mobile Cardiotocography (iCTG) Improving mother and child health through mobile cardiotocography

Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo, in her capacity as the President, formally closed the 74th World Health Assembly today.

སྐལ་བཟང་གི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་གྱི་ཉིནམ་ལུ་ བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།།

Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo met Dr. Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director General of Antimicrobial Resistance(AMR) at the sidelines of the World Health Assembly today.

Hon’ble Lyonpo Dasho Dechen Wangmo, Minister for Health has been formally elected as the President of the World Health Assembly, an honour bestowed on Bhutan for the first time since it became a member of the WHO in 1982.