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 …
June 24: The district administration has constituted mandal-level teams to take preventive measures to check the outbreak of seasonal diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, malaria, filarial and jaundice in the monsoon season. Mandal teams will work under the supervision of mandal development officers, most importantly in rural areas. Staff working in …
FIVE persons, two at Yervadi in Tirunelveli district and three at Musiri in Tiruchi distrcit, died of of diarrhoea on Thursday. At T Pettai Union of Musiri taluk, three persons, including a 18-month-old baby, died and more than a hundred villagers took ill following symptoms of diarrhoea in T Pettai …
If consumed, they will cause vomiting or symptoms of diarrhoea HEALTH HAZARD:Municipal officials who seized the mangoes ripened using chemicals at a godown in Pudukottai on Wednesday. PUDUKOTTAI: In a surprise raid on a mango godown in the town on Wednesday, municipal officials destroyed about one tonne of the fruits …
As many as 77 cases of Hepatitis ‘A’, 528 gastroenteritis and 1,300 typhoid cases have been reported from the district between January to May. According to District Surveillance Officer for Epidemic Diseases Dr A V Narayanaswamy, the doctors team has visited the places and have controlled the diseases within two …
Raipur: Those who survive the bullets in Bastar, could die of ordinary disease, as the people of Bijapur district discovered, when it took 24 hours for medical help to arrive in seven interior villages gripped by a mysterious diarrhoea like epidemic. By then, 13 people had died, including eight women …
Eleven slum dwellers, including two children, were taken ill after drinking tap water on Wednesday. Of the 11 persons who displayed symptoms of water contamination like diarrhoea and vomiting, two were treated by the BBMP health officers while nine including two children were admitted to a private nursing home, said …
This study was conducted to determine the etiology of diarrhoea in a hospital setting in Kolkata. Active surveillance was conducted for 2 years on two random days per week by enrolling every fifth diarrhoeal patient admitted to the Infectious Diseases and Beliaghata General Hospital in Kolkata.
AFTER Dindigul and Theni, now several cases of diarrhoea have been reported for a second time within two weeks near Attur in Salem district. Nearly 100 people, including children, have been suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting since Tuesday at Sadhasivapuram near Attur. According to Health Department officials, many have been …
Pune With the city having buckled under a volley of diseases during the last monsoon, particularly swine flu, the civic authorities are keeping their fingers crossed. While the health department registered a total of 240 swine flu deaths, officials at National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune Municipal Corporation and Sassoon …
ATTUR: Twenty-eight people of Sadasivapuram village near here have been admitted to hospitals complaining of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. While eight of them have been admitted to the intensive care unit of Attur Government Head Quarters Hospital, the rest are in nearby Primary Health Centres. Since Wednesday morning, the villagers …
Karachi is among those densely populated cities of the Third World, where epidemic of diarrhoea has taken a chronic shape due to non-provision of clean drinking water. An official document exclusively made available to Business Recorder revealed that 613 patients of diarrhoea are reported in local, provincial and the federal …
PARADIP: A large number of villagers in Erasama and Balikuda have been affected by diarrhoea after consuming contaminated water. Worse, there are no proper medical facilities in the areas to cater to all the affected villagers. Both the villages have been reeling under acute water scarcity since long and in …
Vadodara:As many as 148 fresh cases of food poisoning were reported in Dahod on Tuesday from various villages while a woman admitted to Dahod civil hospital died of food poisoning.A team of officials from Baroda Medical College was also rushed to Jhalod taluka in the wake of the grave situation …
Chandigarh With the dry and hot weather spell gripping the region, cases of gastric problems, typhoid and other related illnesses are pouring in at city hospitals and civil dispensaries. Doctors say more than 10 to 15 such cases are being reported daily at OPDs and most patients are from peripheral …
Collector P Muthuveeran said that water from two schemes, Odaipatti Combined Drinking Water scheme and Kombai, Thevaram, and Pannaipuram Combined Drinking Water Scheme had got contaminated. Uthamapalayam and Chinnamanoor were affected } WITH diarrhoea claming four lives, leaders of opposition parties have flayed the distrtict administration, which they feel had …
THE death of Pavithra, a 10year-old girl, who was under treatment for diarrhoea at the Uthamapalayam Government Hospital, on Wednesday has caused panic among Theni residents. A number of people with symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting from Uthamapalayam, Cumbum and Bodi are being treated in government and private hospitals. Hariharan …
THREE persons from Athupatti village in Vedasandur block of Dindigul died of diarrhoea on Wednesday. Irked by this villagers resorted to a picketing agitation, charging the authorities that the deceased could have been saved if there was proper road facilities to the village. Rajaperumal (25) a farm labourer of the …
Many international statements have urged researchers, policy-makers and health care providers to collaborate in efforts to bridge the gaps between research, policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries. We surveyed researchers in 10 countries about their involvement in such efforts. The authors surveyed 308 researchers who conducted research on …
