Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The government of Japan completed the project for the installation of seven water filtration plants in Karachi, worth $90,952 (approximately Rs 7.7 million) in collaboration with Al-Khidmat Foundation under the scheme of the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), on July 20, 2011. The inauguration ceremony took place …
The highest number of dengue cases - 4,718 has been reported from the Colombo district, followed by 1,627 in the Gampaha district and 714 in the Kalutara district, a Health Ministry spokesman said. "The country has recorded 2,113 dengue cases during the past 19 days while 3,412 dengue cases and …
Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection, causes watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is …
Director of Health Services reviews fever situation The Health Department has directed its health supervisors to strengthen disease prevention and control activities at the field-level as viral fevers, including dengue and H1N1 cases, may go up as the monsoon intensifies. The Director of Health Services (DHS) convened a meeting on …
A total of 11,687 dengue cases and 82 deaths had been reported from all parts of the country by July 13, Health Ministry sources said. According to sources, the highest number of dengue cases, 4,506 and 1 deaths, had been reported from the Colombo district. The Colombo Municipal Council area …
Contaminated water supply in parts of East Delhi during monsoons has lead to a sudden increase in the number of water borne diseases in the area, doctors said. Representatives of the the East Delhi branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) are meeting officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi …
Three persons died and more than 50 others were taken ill due to an outbreak of diarrhoea in Galdha VDC in Palpa district in the past two days. The disease has been spreading in ward nos 1, 2, 3 and 8 in the VDC for the past four days. Chandra …
The floods showed no signs of abating in Ghatal, Sabang, Daspur, Pingla and Dantan blocks of West Midnapore with the Subarnarekha, Kapaleswari, Keleghai and Silabati rivers in spate. Though the water level of Silabati river is receding very slowly, there is bad news for Ghatal as the Rupnarayan is in …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched an updated edition of drinking water guidelines on July 4 to push water suppliers to systematically manage the potential risk of contaminants entering water, from the catchment to the consumer. Launched at the Singapore International Water Week (http://www.who.int/en/ and http://www.siww.com.sg/), they can help governments …
Sri Lanka Ministry of Health has planned to make fourteen amendments to the Mosquito Breeding Control Act, government sources say. The Cabinet approval for the amendment will be sought within the next few days, Ministry sources added. According to the amendments, the law enforcers can produce photographs of the mosquito …
Sri Lanka Ministry of Health has planned to make fourteen amendments to the Mosquito Breeding Control Act, government sources say. The Cabinet approval for the amendment will be sought within the next few days, Ministry sources added. According to the amendments, the law enforcers can produce photographs of the mosquito …
Waterborne diseases, specially gastro, typhoid and skin ailments, are on the rise in Karachi, particularly its slum areas, said Dr Khuwaja Salman. Examining patients in a free medical camp held by Jamaat-e-Islami UC-12 Gulshan-e-Iqbal chapter at Muhammad Khan Goth in collaboration with Al-Khidmat, he said use of contaminated water is …
The four-year old boy who was being treated for dengue fever at the Intensive Critical Care Unit (ICCU) in Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) died last night. This is the seventh child to die of the disease this year and the fifth to die since the rapid spread of the …
This document by the World Health Organisation, for the first time, sets forth global criteria to evaluate whether a household water treatment option reduces waterborne pathogens sufficiently to protect health. Through use of a risk-based framework and by emphasizing the philosophy of incremental improvement, it is intended to provide implementers …
The objective was to determine whether the installation of deep tube wells to reduce exposure to groundwater arsenic in rural Bangladesh had an effect on the incidence of childhood diarrhoeal disease.
Health Ministry Epidemiology Unit statistics reveal that 9,660 dengue cases and 73 deaths had been reported from all parts of the country by Tuesday, sources said. According to the sources the number of dengue cases reported until June 28 was 2,863. "The number of deaths reported during the same period …
The death toll from dengue fever in the Maldives has reached three in two days with the latest death recorded this morning. Alhan Ahmed of Dhilbahaaruge/Baa atoll Thulhaadhoo, aged two and a half years, died at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) around 3am today after he was transferred from ADK …
With the monsoon having arrived, the threat of water-borne diseases is looming large over the city with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board failing to supply potable drinking water to all citizens. Water samples collected from various localities in the city by the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), …
A cholera outbreak that has already killed 32 people in Congo has spread to the capital, Kinshasa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Three cases of cholera, a waterborne disease, have been confirmed since last week in Kinshasa, which has a population of at least nine million people, many of …
