Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Arsenic contamination in shallow groundwater aquifers remains a major barrier to providing access to safe drinking water in Bangladesh. Chronic exposure to arsenic has been shown to cause serious health impacts, including various cancers, skin lesions, neurological damage, heart disease, and hypertension. Numerous epidemiological studies have shown cognitive impacts on …
The UN and international aid organizations on Monday decried the high malnutrition rates in Kenya. The organizations - Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, World Vision, Concern Worldwide and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said there are currently 420,000 children under the age of five who are facing acute malnutrition. …
RAIPUR: In what could be a chilling rerun of the Gorakhpur tragedy, four newborns died at the government-run Ambedkar Hospital in Raipur due to alleged disruption of oxygen supply. Police have arrested the oxygen plant operator, who was found drunk on duty. State health secretary Subrat Sahoo denied that the …
The fact that so many children brought to BRD suffer from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), says Dr K S Reddy of the Public Health Foundation of India, shows that primary and secondary care are lacking. The death of over 150 children this month has firmly turned the focus on Gorakhpur’s …
Access to medical hubs, better staff and awareness drive must to solve issue The Centre’s committee that visited BRD stated the hospital had filled only four of 12 vacancies for senior residents and the nursing staff was untrained to handle babies. An average of 20 deaths a day in a …
Gorakhpur hospital tragedy: In Lucknow, amid allegations that shortage of oxygen cylinders at the hospital had led to the deaths, UP Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh said that loss of life due to such a reason was nothing less than a "heinous crime". Five more encephalitis-related child deaths were reported …
WHO urgently requires US$ 6.8 million to scale up its response activities in Somalia and conduct a measles immunization campaign for 4.2 million children in November 2017.WHO urgently requires US$ 6.8 million to scale up its response activities in Somalia and conduct a measles immunization campaign for 4.2 million children …
Worsened by Poor Water Infrastructure New DRC Cholera Outbreak Claims Mostly Children KANYARUCHINYA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In the absence of rain, a cholera outbreak has already claimed 17 lives here. The village of Kanyaruchinya lies 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Goma, the capital of DRC's North Kivu …
The Soutenir l’Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l’Élevage des Volailles et Valoriser l’Économie Rurale (SELEVER) study is designed to evaluate the impact of an integrated agriculture-nutrition intervention package (including poultry value chain development; women’s empowerment activities; and a behavior change communications strategy to promote improved diets and feeding, care, and hygiene …
Facing criticism from the Opposition on deaths at BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, his Lok Sabha constituency for two decades, Adityanath appealed to people to take the pledge to become part of the Swachh Bharat Mission. Lucknow: In his first Independence Day speech, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on …
The Uttar Pradesh government has asked all schools of the state to put on hold morning assemblies from tomorrow to prevent the spread of swine flu. "An advisory has been sent to all the district magistrates and commissioners in the state asking them to put on hold morning assembly prayers …
Multiple micronutrients (MMN) are commonly prescribed in pediatric primary healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa to improve nutritional status and appetite without evidence for their effectiveness or international clinical guidelines. Community-wide MMN supplementation has shown limited and heterogeneous impact on growth and morbidity. Short-term ready-to-use therapeutic foods in acutely sick children in …
Bill Gates has told Reuters his foundation plans to spend more than $300 million in Tanzania this year on public health and poverty reduction programmes. In an interview, the billionaire said aid was now being spent “in a smarter way” in some parts of the world. “Some countries have made …
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said it had not recorded any case of polio disease in Somalia in the last three years, declaring the country polio free. The WHO said the country recorded the last case of polio in 2014 in the central part of the country but has …
An outbreak of rabies has hit Malawi’s northern region district of Chitipa, Malawi24 can report. According to reports, two children have died since rabies hit the district with ten cases being recorded each day at Chitipa hospital. Confirming the outbreak, senior veterinary officer in the district Samson Kaonga said his …
The State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) has asked the government to impose a ban on the sale and serving of junk food in school canteens and around 200 meter area of the schools. The commission has taken suo moto note of a report prepared by a committee …
In a letter to Chief Secretary S Ramaswamy, SCPCR Chairman Yogendra Khanduri spoke on the harmful effects of junk food and asked him to ensure its sale was banned within 200 metres of schools. Mr Khanduri said a panel constituted under the Hyderabad- based National Institute of Nutrition by the …
Four studies previously indicated that the effect of malaria infection during pregnancy on the risk of low birthweight (LBW; <2,500 g) may depend upon maternal nutritional status. The researchers investigated this dependence further using a large, diverse study population. Original Source
Kochi: An analytical study conducted by State Health Systems Resource Centre Kerala, which comes under the health department, found that the healthcare system was not ready to respond to a mass scale emergency and this was illustrated by the Puttingal temple fireworks accident on April 10, 2016. The study stated …
Kano — Kano State government has concluded the July round of poliomyelitis vaccination of over three million children below five years. In a chat with LEADERSHIP , the executive Secretary, Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr. Nasir Mahmoud stated that the July exercise was hitch-free, declaring that the …
