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 …
Around 42 percent of the city’s total population living in 539 slums is without having access to a proper toilet and appropriate sanitation system. The worsening sanitation system has affected the health of these slum dwellers and the recent diarrhoeal outbreak has claimed lives of three children in the past …
Despite having reached the half-way mark, the Odisha Government has laid out an ambitious plan to achieve total sanitation by 2019. By March, the sanitation coverage in the State stood at 55.33 per cent as per the Total Sanitation Campaign monitoring data of Government of India. Given the rate, the …
Months after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called malnourishment among children a national shame, the Union Ministry of Women & Child Development (WCD) has now written to the Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories asking them to get “serious about fighting malnourishment especially among the children and women”. WCD …
The district administration has failed entirely to provide clean potable water to the people of Jabalpur district. The residents are in the grip of gastrointestinal problems as they are compelled to quench their thirst by drinking contaminated water. The situation is grim with as many as 8,246 people are suffering …
Belpahari, Aug. 7: In the past 40 years, only one chief minister — S.S. Ray — has visited Belpahari, one of the state’s most backward areas where six starvation-like deaths were reported in the past eight years and where many poverty-stricken people eat ant eggs. Ray had come to Belpahari, …
Altogether 16 persons have lost their lives due to floods and landslide related incidents that have occurred in the country last month and 22 persons have lost their lives due to diarrhea in this rainy season, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Issuing a press release on Monday, the …
While doctors in the city say they have been flooded with cases of gastroenteritis and acute diarrhoea over the past couple of weeks, the health and sanitation wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Cor-poration says it has come across only 92 cases in the last one week. Last year, during …
Without water people cannot survive, but without good sanitation and hygiene practices the water available could become contaminated and lead to disease and death. Every year 1.5 million people, most of them children, die from complications associated with diarrhea that they picked up from dirty water.
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF reported that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water was achieved …
13 persons admitted to CDH with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea; 47 others being treated A total of 13 persons were admitted to Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet on Sunday with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. According to a Chennai Corporation official, the patients are residents of north Chennai. What …
DIPAYAL: With authorities failing to contain the spread of large number of diarrhoea cases in Doti since mid-June, health workers today confirmed the spread to cholera saying it might soon become an epidemic if corrective measures are not taken on a war footing. Local residents have been terrified and health …
Seminar for health care providers today The UNICEF in association with the Amala Institute of Medical Science will implement a model community action programme at Adattu panchayat in the district to improve child health. Millions of children die from preventable causes before reaching their fifth birthday, many of them during …
Latest Planning Report Says State’s Progress Is Off-Track Jaipur: The latest report for Rajasthan on the millennium development goals (MDG) released by the state planning board revealed that the state is likely to miss its targeted goals set for 2015. The state has performed poorly in many of the indicators …
Chandigarh: A total of 11 patients, including five children, suffering from diarrhoea were referred to hospitals in the city on Tuesday. As many as 269 patients were examined today by a team of doctors. A team from the Municipal Corporation conducted a house-to-house check of the water supply in Mauli …
Diarrhoeal disease is the fifth leading cause of all mortality globally. To this burden, rotavirus contributes over half a million deaths annually. This pilot study was conducted to determine the economic burden of diarrhoeal episodes on families from different geographical regions accessing medical facilities in India.
Acute infectious and chronic diarrheal diseases are important public health problems. A recent study by Fiskerstrand and colleagues identified a family with a rare early onset familial diarrhea. By linkage analysis and exon sequencing, the authors identified a heterozygous missense mutation in GUCY2C, encoding the guanylate cyclase C receptor, which …
As many as 80 residents of Sambra village in Belgaum taluk were taken ill after they drank contaminated water on Saturday. It is said that the water in the borewell and overhead tank in the village, the main sources of drinking water, were contaminated resulting in people falling ill. Of …
GUWAHATI: A survey conducted by a voluntary association called ‘Jeevan Initiative’ has revealed the high presence of microbes in drinking water at various public places, including schools and hospitals in the city. The association collected samples from drinking water facilities installed at 10 prominent public places in the city and …
Pneumonia and diarrhea are the two leading causes of infant mortality, together accounting for nearly one-third of all deaths among children under 5 around the world. This amounts to more than 2 million lives lost each year. Both diseases are easily preventable and curable, a new United Nations Children's Fund …
Gaza's only fresh source of water is too dangerous to drink because of contamination by fertiliser and human waste, a new report yesterday said. The charities Save the Children and Medical Aid for Palestinians has said the number of children being treated for diarrhoea has doubled in five years. They …
