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 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today showed its readiness to combat the spread of dengue during the Commonwealth Games in the Capital. The municipal officers said that they have started the exercise with a workshop on the sensitisation of municipal councillors about the dengue, chikunguniya and malaria. The workshop …
NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has set up 22 surveillance posts to combat the spread of dengue, chikungunya and malaria ahead of the Commonwealth Games in the Capital. The MCD Health Department conducted a workshop at Town Hall here on Wednesday to sensitise municipal councillors about dengue, chikungunya …
The objective was to study dengue vector breeding patterns under a variety of conditions in public and private spaces; to explore the ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) factors involved in vector breeding and viral transmission, and to define the main implications for vector control.
Two epidemics of chikungunya fever are reported from Kerala in 2006 and 2007. We aimed to investigate the environmental factors of households affected by chikungunya fever and to estimate the proportion of population that suffered from the disease during the epidemic in 2007.
S.Elango , Director of Public Health (right), having a word with S.S.Vasan, head of Public Health, Oxitec Limited, U.K., at the Asian Biosafety Training meeting in Madurai on Monday. Madama Bouare , African scientist (centre), is in the picture. MADURAI: Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications …
Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications were needed on the bio-safety of Genetically Modified (GM) mosquitoes being developed by researchers globally to combat vector-borne diseases such as malaria, chikungunya and dengue. He said here that public health administrators and governments could not take any chances with …
Aizawl, Feb 19: National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) Director PL Joshi today termed the situation in Mizoram in regards to malaria as "alarming and emergency situation." While the population of North-eastern States comprised only four per cent of the total national population, malaria infection cases was as high …
There are separate national programmes to eliminate malaria and filaria. This despite the fact that both the diseases are caused by the same vector and can be easily covered under the national vector borne diseases control programme. Citing this example, health activists in eastern Uttar Pradesh reiterated their demand for …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS MOSQUITOES do not just mean nuisance; their `kiss' could land you in hospital. Globally around 300 to 500 million people get infected each year, a million of whom fail to survive. In India, over 40 million people suffer from diseases spread by mosquitoes annually. According to …
T Muruganandham | ENS IT TOOK A POLITICAL AGITATION AND THE RECENT PRODDING BY CHIEF MINISTER M KARUNANIDHI FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BABUS TO REALISE THAT MOSQUITOES WERE MORE THAN IRRITANTS; THEY COULD BE KILLERS. EXPRESS EXAMINES THE SCENARIO THERE is a buzz around town. No, it's is not about …
G Saravanan | ENS THE Chennai Corporation recently woke up and intensified fogging and fumigation at all vulnerable points following a spate of complaints. The banks of the several channels and storm water drains crisscrossing Chennai saw civic staff engaged in spraying anti-larvaecite in large numbers. Besides that, the Corporation …
In spite of all efforts the district malaria department has utterly failed to control the disease. Comparing to last year the number of malaria patients has gone up this year. At the same time the Annual Parasite Index (API) has also increased. But the department claims that malaria is under …
Mumbai: Even as cases of chikungunya are on the rise in the city, doctors are puzzled over a new viral fever that mimics symptoms of chikungunya, measles and dengue. While several confirmed cases of chikungunya have been reported from private hospitals in South and Central Mumbai, there are more cases …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today signed an MoU with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for establishment of an Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) in Orissa. It has agreed to provide 40 acres of land free of cost in Kumarabasta village near Bhubaneswar in Khurda district for the …
BHUBANESWAR: Malaria infection in Orissa, where the disease has long been a major public health issue, lately is showing an interesting change in its distribution, prevalence and of course,
Despite the swine flu epidemic that had gripped the city for most part of 2009, the residents had a rather welcome change in store. The dengue fever, which had been at its peak in the last three years, saw a drastic decline. The cases reported in 2009 were merely one-fourth …
This can happen only in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Apparently, malaria clinics of the civic body are being run not by doctors but by laboratory technicians and pharmacists, with the latter also prescribing medicine to patients who visit these clinics. A senior official of the health department of KMC said, …
AIZAWL, Feb 2: Malaria, which claimed 119 lives in Mizoram during last year, remains the biggest killer disease in this Northeast State. According to the Health Department records, 1,71,793 people hot their blood tested and 9,399 had tested positive for malaria during 2009. The victims aged between 1 to 64, …
