WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
People of the country suffer from malnutrition and communicable and non-communicable diseases mainly due to lack of awareness, social stigma, illiteracy, ignorance and poverty, said speakers at a workshop on Sunday. In a bid to make the public aware of the most dangerous and contagious diseases, the Health Education Bureau …
Plight of the city dwellers has aggravated with alarming breeding of mosquitoes that is also posing health hazard due to the failure of the Dhaka City Corporation for
A bill that would ban the manufacture, sale and import of pet food containing harmful substances was approved Tuesday at a Cabinet meeting. The bill, drafted following the deaths last year of many pet dogs and cats in the United States that had been fed Chinese-made pet food, also requires …
The prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls has been reduced from 52.4 per cent in 2004 to 43.5 per cent in 2007, revealed the Helen Keller International at a seminar on Monday. Helen Keller International and the National Nutrition Programme of the government on Monday organised a seminar on
A type of bacteria present in the food eaten by some doctors and other staff members of IGMH had been the cause of the food poisoning incident at IGMH last week, the Maldives Food & Drug Authority has said. A number of staff at Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital had suffered …
Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam yesterday said the number of Chikungunya cases may double with the onset of the rainy season in the city as shortage of staff has badly crippled day-to-day functions of his department. There are many reported cases in Bambalapitiya where a …
Taking vitamin D supplements in infancy may help a youngster ward off Type 1 diabetes, according to a review of the evidence released on Thursday in a specialist journal. Doctors in Britain looked at five studies in which children were monitored from infancy to early childhood to see if vitamin …
School going children have developed a culture of taking junk foods in the name of fast food although such junk foods that contain excessive fat and carbohydrate are bad for health. At a discussion with the school going children at the University Laboratory School and College in the city yesterday, …
* Seventy percent of the world's surface is covered by water but 97.5 percent of that is salt water. Of the remaining 2.5 percent that is freshwater, 68.7 percent is frozen in ice caps and glaciers. Less than one percent is available for human use. * More than 1.2 billion …
Government Epidemiologists yesterday warned the public who developed symptoms of Leptospirosis (Rat Fever) to immediately consult the MOH or the PHI in the area to get the prophylaxis (injection) as a safeguard against the killer disease. Health Ministry's Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Nihal Abeysingha told the media yesterday that Leptospirosis had …
In an attempt to face a possible food scarcity in the country next year, Cabinet has decided to set up a Presidential Task Force to promote local foods. Agriculture Minister Maithripala Sirisena said it is speculated that there will be scarcity of food supply in the country by next year …
The concentration of pesticide detected in Chinese-made frozen dumplings which sickened family members in Chiba Prefecture in January was found to be up to about 10,000 times in excess of the quarantine standard, police officials said Thursday. According to police investigations, the amount of the organophosphate pesticide methamidophos found from …
AnemiaA federal advisory panel, in response to mounting safety concerns, called on Thursday for additional restrictions on the use of anemia drugs by cancer patients. The recommendation by a committee that advises the Food and Drug Administration could lead to an additional decline in sales for the drugs: Aranesp, made …
The government is planning to increase its allocation for food to all the public hospitals because of the price spiral of essentials. The allocation will be increased by Tk 40 for a patient and will be implemented shortly, said the secretary to health and family welfare ministry, AKM Zafar Ullah …
The people of Deraniyagala have been warned about the spread of chikungunya in the area. About 150 are suspected to have contracted this disease, said Dr. A. N. Palinda Karunatilleke, DMO, Eratne Rural Hospital. Dr. Karunatilleke has informed the Public Health Inspector to create an awareness among the public about …
Sri Lanka has won kudos as being the first among all South East Asian countries which had successfully controlled the Malaria epidemic. Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said. The sources said that in 2007 Sri Lanka recorded only 196 Malaria patients down from 591 in 2006. The number of Malaria …
The health authorities say that the rat fever (Lepto Spirosis) is fast spreading in the Western Province. Hundred and fifteen patients were found during the last two months. Forty-seven of them are from the Kalutara District, 41 from Gampaha the District and 27 are from the Colombo District. Patients were …
There are around 30,000 patients of tuberculosis (TB) in the district and 20 of such patients die every year, participants of an awareness workshop organised by the Pakistan Anti-TB Association (PATA) were informed here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Riaz Malik, a deputy district officer (DDO) for health, …
Basic preventive measures like hand washing, not sharing beds or food, and minimizing the number of contacts can limit person to person transmission of Nipah virus. "Culturally sensitive health messages are needed to create awareness about the potential communicability of disease among persons who care for their critically ill family …
THE National Women Development Policy 2004, came under fire of women rights groups and civil society leaders for having done away with some of the equal rights provisions of the 1997 policy guidelines. The women development policy just announced by the interim government is an improved version on that adopted …
