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 …
Transport and District In-charge Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Monday said panchayat development officers (PDOs), who fail to ensure efficient garbage disposal under their gram panchayats limits on the outskirts of the City, would be suspended. Speaking on the sidelines of a quarterly review meeting convened to assess the implementation of …
It looks neither malaria nor dengue but pneumonia and Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) are proving to be Odisha’s biggest emergency health threat. Moreover, the State looks like to be under viral seize as viral-led diseases accounted for the maximum death burden in State last year. Such disconcerting trends have come …
‘India spends less of its GDP on health than some of the world’s poorest countries’ Every government hospital serves an estimated 61,000 people in India, with one bed for every 1833 people, new official data shows. In undivided Andhra Pradesh, every government hospital serves over 3 lakh patients while in …
In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), knowledge about health and its determinants has been integrated into a comparable framework to inform health policy. Outputs of this analysis are relevant to current policy questions in England and elsewhere, particularly on health inequalities. We use GBD 2013 data …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned member nations against the return to pre-antibiotic era on account of excessive and indiscriminate use of life-saving medicines and their over-the-counter sales. The concern was expressed this week at the South East Asia Region meeting of the WHO at Dili, capital of Timor-Leste …
Nagpur: Thirty per cent of diseases in the world are caused due to environmental factors. Unfortunately, the burden of these diseases is much higher in children. The exposure to various chemicals, directly or indirectly, causes worst effects on human physiology, disrupting its normal functioning and causing diseases as serious as …
DHS has come up with revised policies and guidelines to fight H1N1, dengue and leptospirosis. REALISING THAT the state’s public health department needs to remain better equipped to tackle the outbreak of communicable diseases, the special committee appointed by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) has come up with a …
Malabo — Africa is expected to establish a continental Centre for Disease Control as part of its fight against communicable diseases that have retarded countries' growth. President Mugabe, who is the African Union and Sadc chairperson, is here to attend the International Conference on Africa's fight against Ebola. African ministers …
The Ministry of Health is pleased to publish this year’s Annual Health Bulletin (AHB) 2015; the 28th edition in its series. The AHB presents status of health of Bhutan 2014, progress of Millennium Development Goals, the fact sheets of cause-specific morbidity, facility-based cases and case-loads, health service coverage, health risk …
District Collector A. Gnanasekaran has asked people of Nallavanpalayam village to keep their surroundings clean and tidy in order to prevent outbreak of communicable diseases. Addressing at their Gram Sabha meet organised in view of Republic Day Mr. Gnanasekaran asked people to avoid open area defecation and insisted that every …
This draft National Health Policy 2015 released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ministry focuses on critical healthcare issues and says that the government may pass the health rights bills to ensure health as a fundamental right. Read this policy, related documents and send in your comments till …
Ministers of health, donor agencies, philanthropists, and international agencies will meet at Bamako, Mali, in November, 2008, to review global priorities for health research. These individuals and organisations previously set health priorities for WHO, either through its regular budget or extra-budgetary funds. We asked what insights can be gained as …
