Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to this latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report summarizes …
From the active surveillance of diarrheal disease at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kolkata, 3826 stool specimens collected during 2008–2011 were screened for DEC and other enteric pathogens. PCR was used in the detection of enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative E. coli and 10 major colonization factor antigens (CFs) of enterotoxigenic E. …
GUWAHATI: With Guwahati being the door to Northeast India and hundreds of people from outside the State entering the city each day, there is a huge danger of contacting the swine flu virus that has already killed many people in various parts of the country. The State Health department has …
Fifty-nine per cent of water samples collected from rural areas in Islamabad are found unsafe for drinking and situation is even worse in Rawalpindi, with 83 per cent of the samples collected from villages across Rawalpindi district are unsafe. According to a report of Pakistan Council for Research in Water …
“Maternal and child health indicate the robustness of our health sector” Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accorded due appreciation to the fact that the country’s under-five mortality rate has declined much faster than the global average, but agreed that the challenge was to …
Almost 40 per cent glaciers in Afghanistan have been reduced in 40 years, whereas the glaciers supplying water to Ravi, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum Rivers are thinning,” said Dr Chaudary Inayatullah, Climate Change Expert at Save the Children. Dr Chaudhry was speaking at a seminar, ‘Building Resilience in the Indus …
PMC Analysed 35 Child Deaths, Below One Year, Between May 2012 And January 2013 Pune: Low birth weight, a common cause of infant death in rural areas, is also the leading factor linked with infants’ death in Pune, states the latest child death audit report of the Pune Municipal Corporation …
The disease burden saw 14 per cent increase to 31,536 cases per district during October from September’s 27,587 cases. Ninety two districts reported 2,901,262 disease incidence in the observed month compared with previous month’s 2,400,052 in 87 districts, says a Free and Fair Election (Fafen) report. The Fafen who visited …
More than 420,000 children under the age of five years die every year in the country due to both external and internal factors. The major causes of death among under-five children are birth Asphyxia (22 percent), Sepsis (14 percent), Pneumonia (13 percent), Diarrhoea (11 percent) and Premature birth (9 per …
Six elderly patients have died of gastroenteritis following a norovirus outbreak at a hospital in Japan's Miyazaki prefecture, a media report said. The victims were among the 44 patients and staff who exhibited the virus-caused gastroenteritis symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea at the hospital in Nichinan city, reported Xinhua citing …
Around the world, access to clean drinking water is a daily struggle; with one in eight people lacking safe water. As a result of these contaminated water sources, a child is more likely to contract diarrhoeal and other pathogen based diseases or infections. Diarrhoea is one of the largest killers …
Hyderabad: Contaminated water has claimed 108 lives in the state this year, according to figures stated in the Parliament by Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The city is not immune to the trend, and cases of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis seem to be high. City hospitals have registered about 1,200 …
Even as one in four deaths worldwide in 2010 was caused by heart disease or stroke — the top two killers that have remained constant for the past 40 years — human mortality caused by climate change has shown the most dangerous spurt over the last four decades. The Global …
The sex ratio in the national capital has increased from 821 in 2001 census to 866 in 2011, but it is still below the national ratio, according to data released by the Delhi government which puts the city’s population at 1.67 crore. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit released the Delhi …
Globally 2.5 billion people have no clean toilets and 1.1 billion people defecate in the field of which 40 million are in Pakistan. Over half the women in Pakistan have no access to a safe toilet, threatening their health and exposing them to shame and fear, said Siddiq Khan country …
A modest yet consistent decline in the infant mortality rate, especially in six problematic states, is one of the key features of the latest data from the Sample Registration System. Nationwide, the IMR has dropped by three points from 47 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 44, according to …
One hundred and seventy-four children dead in 2010, 133 in 2011, 158 this year. In a region marked by gross poverty and hunger in north Chhattisgarh, those are the figures for just the Surguja district hospital, and for just the six months between April-September. Most of the children died of …
Residents of slums, poorly developed residential colonies in urban areas face ordeals ranging from diseases to sexual harassment because of little or no access to functioning and clean toilets, reveals a new study on sanitation in urban areas. The study, ‘Squatting Rights’, has revealed that a large slum population has …
This new WHO report provides scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks. The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological …
There is a bad news: India may not be able to meet Millennium Development Goals for Women and Children’s health by the target year of 2015. In fact, the first report of the UN Secretary General’s independent expert review group has revealed that unless causes are urgently addressed — most …
Being an Indian and below 5 years of age is a rather dangerous prospect right now. The odds seem to be piling up against Indian toddlers — a recent Unicef report has claimed that 16.55 lakh below-5 kids die each year in the nation, leading the world in child mortality. …
