The number of deaths among children under the age of five has reduced by half since 1990. Yet over 5 million children are still dying every year from mostly preventable causes. Pneumonia is responsible for nearly 20% of these deaths and is the leading infectious cause of death in this …
People With Low Immunity Levels Need To Take Extra Precautions, Say Doctors Bangalore: Influenza A (H1N1) or swine flu is back in Bangalore. The deadly virus which first surfaced in India in 2009, may not have claimed any life in the state so far this year, but the scale at …
Forty-seven children have died of measles and pneumonia in Kohistan area of Upper Dir district since Jan 15, according to district health officer Dr Abdul Wakeel. Mr Wakeel told Dawn on Monday that the deaths from measles and pneumonia were reported in Thal, Kumrat and Lamoti areas, which were mostly …
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 …
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 …
JHENIDAH, JAN 13: Pneumonia has broken out in an epidemic form in the six upazilas of the district. According to informed sources, the disease has taken a serious turn in the district town and its adjacent areas since a month before and is spreading day by day. Minor members of …
A cold snap which saw temperatures drop on Thursday to their lowest point in Bangladesh’s post-independence history has killed around 80 people, officials said. The weather office said the lowest temperature was recorded at three degrees Celsius (37.4 Fahrenheit) in the northern town of Syedpur and the Red Crescent said …
A report presented by UNICEF officials revealed that over 24,000 children die of Pneumonia in the country every year that caused by bacterium called Streptococcus Pneumonia. This was disclosed by UNICEF officials Dr. Tariq Iqbal and Dr. Aurangzaib Kamal at a workshop held in connection with introduction of newly launched …
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 …
For the benefit of thousands of children, now the pentavalent vaccine - a five-in-one vaccine, which protects children from five diseases, will be available free in all 21 districts of the state of Haryana. Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will launch the vaccination on Friday. After the successful launch …
High blood pressure (BP) has become the world’s deadliest diseasecausing risk factor. But for Indians, IAP (indoor air pollution) — emanating from chulhas burning wood, coal and animal dung as fuel — has been found to be a bigger health hazard for Indians. The first-ever estimate of the contribution of …
India tops in global pneumonia deaths of children under five years of age with 3.97 lakh reported in 2010, says a Unicef study. The third annual International Vaccine Access Centre’s (IVAC) Pneumonia Progress Report 2012 says that almost 1,088 children under five years of age die everyday in India, an …
India continues to top the global pneumonia mortality charts, witnessing four lakh deaths of children every year. This translates into 1,095 children dying every day on account of a vaccine-preventable disease, which is also treatable with antibiotics. Worldwide, 13 lakh children died of pneumonia in 2011, with 30 per cent …
According to this Pneumonia Progress Report 2012 released by IVAC and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, more than 99 per cent of all pneumonia deaths occurred in developing countries and 3/4 of it in 15 countries, among which India tops the list. Recent estimates from the United Nations …
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 …
Pakistan has become the first South Asian country to introduce a new against pneumonia. India, in contrast, has only partially introduced one of two available vaccines under a national programme, though it is available in the market. This is despite WHO having attributed India with the highest child mortality rate …
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. …
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 …
As swine flu numbers went up to 267 last week in the city , figures show that the majority of the victims of the H1N1 virus are children, elderly citizens and pregnant women. On August 4 alone, 17 positive cases were recorded and nearly 30 per cent of the patients …
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 …
