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 …
The importance of an uncontaminated water supply and proper sanitation in controlling enteric infections, as well as contributing to poverty eradication, has been recognized by the international community. Although sanitation appears to be no less effective as a public health measure than water supply improvements, targets for improving sanitation worldwide …
Dumka, Oct. 26: It is the word of the village head against the civil surgeon on how many Paharias died of diarrhoea recently. On October 23, village head Nijri Paharia of Surajbeda under Littipara block of Pakur district submitted a petition to the office of regional deputy director of health …
Raipur: A cholera outbreak may have gone undetected in South Bastar this monsoon. Since June, a steady stream of deaths have been reported in the Maoist-hit districts of Bijapur and Dantewada. More than 100 people developed acute diarrhoea and died of dehydration within hours. Among other bacterial and viral diseases, …
With a number of migrant labourers admitted in hospital with symptoms of diarrhoea, there is panic among workers at the grain market in Moga. Dr B S Goyal, who is posted at the Moga Civil Hospital, said the patients brought there were suffering from acute diarrhoea, primarily due to consumption …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
JAIPUR: As many as 35 persons have reportedly taken ill in the last three days in Nahanakula village under Korei block in the district. Suspecting an outbreak of diarrhoea, a medical team from the district headquarters hospital has arrived in the village for medical aid and to sensitise the affected …
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to file a status report on the outbreak of cholera and diarrhoea diseases in each affected district. A division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice V Gopalgowda and Justice Indrajit Mahanty, while adjudicating over a PIL filed by …
A good number of unqualified village doctors practicing allopathy have been prescribing antibiotics for quick recovery from various infections, putting health of rural patients at high risk, an ICDDR, B study reveals. The study, still going on since the last three years, says the village doctors, almost 95 percent of …
MALKANGIRI: Diarrhoea has claimed nine lives since last month in Podia panchayat here. Its outbreak in the district has become a major concern for the State government which has been facing criticism from the Opposition Congress for failure to provide adequate health facilities in the epidemic zone of Rayagada. In …
Rajahmundry, Sept. 15: In the aftermath of the heavy rains accompanied with three spells of floods in the Godavari river and prevailing inclement weather conditions, a large number of people are suffering with several health problems including water borne diseases like diarrhoea and viral fevers like malaria, dengue and swine …
BALANGIR: Diarrhoea is spreading fast in Balangir district with 53 more cases being reported in the last two days taking the total to 132. The condition of seven persons is stated to be critical. With district health officials here unprepared, it is on the verge of taking the shape of …
RAYAGADA/MALKANGIRI: Even as Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Secretary Anu Garg accompanied by the Southern Division RDC CS Kumar and Rayagada Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale visited the worst-affected Lakapai village under Kalyansinghpur block this afternoon, the situation is far from better. There is no primary health centre neither in the …
Warangal, Sept. 14: About 100 tribals people fell ill after drinking contaminated water in Kommarigudem thanda in Wardhanapet mandal on Tuesday. While 50 people were treated at Wardhanapet civil hospital, including 25 who have been given intravenous liquid, the rest were treated at a special medical camp at Inovolu primary …
Bhubaneswar: Refuting allegations that poor people in the KBK region died of gastroenteritis by consuming mango kernel and other uneatable stuff in recent months, the Odisha government on Monday claimed that Rs 2 a kg rice scheme was doing well in the area. Allegations that the people are deprived of …
Bhubaneswar: The 'vibrio cholerae' bacteria was detected in water sources of Southern Rayagada district where at least 34 people have died of diarrhoea in last two months, official sources said on Thursday. Of the 16 water samples examined at the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, six tested positive to …
The country has made progress in reducing infant mortality but it is still some distance from its 2015 target Indicus Analytics / September 9, 2010, 0:39 IST According to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, India has the target of reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) to …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today decided to continue with the scheme to provide financial incentives to the tribal patients to draw them to hospitals. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. Naveen reviewed the situation in the southern tribal districts …
Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma today said that the government was taking preventive measures to check gastroenteritis and declared that after fixing responsibility, strict action would be taken against the guilty for the outbreak of the epidemic in Doda.
