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 …
PESHAWAR, Aug 31: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is establishing diarrhoea treatment centres throughout flood-ravaged Pakistan, as it strives to protect people against epidemic-prone acute waterborne diseases, reduce excess deaths and restore routine health care services, said an official of the organisation. According to latest data, 500,635 people had been …
By Mohinder Verma JAMMU, Aug 29: With no respite from the diarrhoea epidemic in the mountainous and vast Doda district mainly caused by contaminated water, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry is deputing its team to the district tomorrow to inspect water resources and suggest corrective measures to tackle the …
Hyderabad, Aug. 29: With the monsoon in full swing, cases of seasonal diseases like viral fever, dengue, malaria, typhoid and diarrhoea are increasing and continue to claim lives in the districts. In Krishna district alone, seasonal diseases have claimed around 15 lives including that of four children in the last …
Thorur (Warangal), Aug. 18: Diarrhoea deaths in rural parts of Warangal continue unabated. On Wednesday, a tribal youth named Banoth Seenu, 25, an agricultural labourer in Somaramkunta thanda in Thorur mandal, fell to the disease bringing the official death toll to six in the district. In a span of 15 …
Anita Joshua Cholera cases reported in Swat Valley Concern over second wave of deaths ISLAMABAD: As flood waters continue to wreak havoc in the southern parts of the country, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) on Wednesday expressed grave concern about the health hazards posed by receding water amid reports of …
Aug. 12: At least 30 people are suffering from diarrhoea at Chandrapuram under Aswapuram mandal on Thursday. According to sources, the condition of all the patients was said to be stable. They were admitted to the Bhadrachalam government hospital.Due to rains, bad weather and drinking unsafe water diarrhoea spread in …
Recent reviews suggest common infectious diseases continue to be a major cause of death among preschool children in developing countries. Identification of feasible strategies to combat this disease burden is an important public health need. We evaluated the efficacy of adding prebiotic oligosaccharide and probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis HN019 to milk, …
NIZAMABAD, Aug. 11: Nizamabad city has been affected by diarrhoea.Negligence of municipal corporation officials led to the contamination of drinking water with 20 persons hospitalised and several others affected with diarrhoea. Of them, the condition of eight persons is said to be critical.Leakage of the drinking water pipeline near drainage …
Narasimhulupeta (Warangal), Aug. 9: Diarrhoea is rampant in remote tribal villag-es in Narsimhulapet mandal of Mahbubabad revenue division in Warangal district.Sanitation has deteriorated due to the recent heavy rains. Drinking water has been contaminated and seasonal diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and viral fevers have spread in interior places.People are suffering …
Adilabad, Aug. 6: The incessant rains which lashed the district have contaminated drinking water sources in rural and tribal areas and caused diarrhoea and jaundice.Poor sanitation in villages and Adivasi hamlets (gudems) and lack of chlorination further worsened the situation.The rains have forced people to depend on hand pumps for …
RAIPUR, 1 AUG: For the first time since November 2000 when the state came into existence, Chhattisgarh government has now been dispatching doctors by choppers to tribals stronghold interiors that has saw dozens of deaths since March due to diarrhoea and other diseases, the health minister said yesterday. ``We are …
BERHAMPUR: With the death of two more persons on Tuesday, the toll due to diarrhoea in the last one week went up to 12 in the tribal- dominated Buratal panchayat under Patrapur block in Ganjam district. Cases of diarrhoea were first reported in Adapathar village and it later spread to …
Three people including two minors have died after suffering from a severe bout of diarrhea in far-western Nepalgunj so far. Jasmin Halwai,5, of Salyanibag, Nepalgunj -5 and Taniya Halwai, 5 of Nepalgunj-4 died as they were being rushed to a nearby hospital while Kalawati Budhathoki, 65, of Tulsipur in Dang …
Visakhapatnam, July 26: Stating that major concerns such as cerebral malaria and filarial were showing a downswing, the district medical and health officer (DMHO), Dr Swarajyalakshmi, said that seasonal diseases such as diarrhoea and amoebiosis were showing an upswing. Talking to this newspaper here on Monday, Dr Swarajyalakshmi said,
ROURKELA: Safe drinking water has become a dream for people of several interior pockets of the coal-rich Hemgir block under Sundargarh district where fear of gastroenteritis outbreak is stalking menacingly. Amid several incidents of diarrhoea in remote villages, the Sundargarh district health administration is on its toes to arrest the …
As the count of patients affected with diarrhoea touched 133 in Shimla on Friday, the state government issued an advisory across the state against consumption of drinking water from natural sources and checking open defecation, especially around water sources. The main reason for diarrhoea outbreak in Dhingu Baodi locality of …
MORE than 40 persons have been affected by diarrhoea and vomiting in Dharmathupatti village, near Bodi, in Theni district. Many of them have sought treatment at the government and private hospitals. During the past three days, many of the villagers were found to be suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting in …
METRO Water on Monda said the joint meeting of it officials and Corporation au thorities decided to raise th chlorine level and not the re sidual chlorine to 10 ppm i water distributed through th Metro Water system. "It is clarified that durin the joint meeting of the Cor poration …
The objective of this study was to evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India.
