Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Asha Devi, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat Bhagwanpur, Khand Chhanchhrauli, Yamunanagar Vs State of Haryana dated 18/09/2019 regarding industrial pollution in village Bhagwanpur, Tehsil Chhachhrauli, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana on account of ply wood and chemical factories operating in violation of environmental …
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warned Thursday that 11 typhoid cases among civilians from a besieged Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital may be just “the tip of the iceberg.” Medical teams from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Yalda, an area east of …
The news that a promising vaccine has been tested against Ebola is very welcome. But, as we in Nepal know only too well, the development of a vaccine is no guarantee that it will be used. Back in 1987, a successful trial of a typhoid vaccine here in Kathmandu gave …
The city recorded eight cases of cholera in July, said the health report released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on Saturday. The emergence of cholera, an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhoea and can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated, usually points towards water contamination. The …
AHMEDABAD: Residents of Khodiyarnagar Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) colony in Chandkheda facing contaminated water woes for years have got a ray of hope after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Gujarat Human Rights Commission (GHRC) directed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to provide an immediate solution. Suryakant Jetasar, a …
Antibiotic-resistant typhoid is spreading across Africa and Asia and poses a major global health threat, warn experts. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust, who have been tracking the hard-to-treat infection, say it is replacing regular typhoid in many countries. They analysed bacterial samples from 63 countries - nearly half were impervious …
In a startling revelation, the Union health ministry has mapped 16,000 habitations which are prone to arsenic and heavy metal water, resulting in emergence of deadly diseases. Union health minister J.P. Nadda recently held a meeting with the minister of drinking water and has asked to tap the problem in …
Zanzibar — LOCAL health officials have declared typhoid fever outbreak in Zanzibar municipality, after at least 22 residents were afflicted with the disease. The number of patients was recorded at Mnazi Mmoja hospital alone. According to the head of the diseases surveillance unit, Dr Salma Masauni Yussuf, patients suffered from …
According to the study, 42.2% of Indian women are underweight when they begin pregnancy, nearly seven percentage points higher than the figure of 35.5% cited in the National Family Health Survey-3 A new research study finds that average maternal nutrition in India is not only much worse than what national …
KAMPALA - Ugandan health authorities said Wednesday that they have intensified efforts against the deadly typhoid outbreak in the capital and two central districts. As of Monday 513 cases fitting the case definition had been identified in Kampala and in Wakiso and Mukono districts, the Health Ministry said in a …
Health authorities say contaminated water supply behind sudden spike A sudden rise in typhoid cases has been witnessed in Rajouri and its adjoining areas forcing the district health authorities to take various preventive measures and organise several programmes to make people aware about the disease and its prevention. The Superintendent, …
Against government guidelines, biomedical waste continues to be dumped in open places in the city. Hazardous biomedical waste can be found like household garbage on roadsides, posing danger to human beings and the environment. On Ring Road, biomedical waste is joining the heaps of household garbage, solid waste and poultry …
AHMEDABAD: At a time when the opposition party in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation demanded a white paper on health in the city, one more death was reported from Thakkar Bapanagar. Though AMC officials claim that the death was because of multiple reasons, they confirmed that the girl also tested positive …
Flood Of Patients With Viral Symptoms That Can Last For Even 2 To 3 Weeks The spell of rain over the last few days may have brought some relief to Delhiites reeling under an unusually hot spell, but it has led to a spurt in viral fever and typhoid cases. …
Hundreds of people have fallen ill due to viral fever, typhoid and diarrhoea in the district, health workers said. The Mahendranagar-based Mahakali Zonal Hospital said it receives 150 patients of the diseases on a daily basis. The number of patients with viral fever, typhoid and common cold has increased, said …
NASHIK: The diarrhoea outbreak in Niphad was barely four days after the Nashik Municipal Corporation had collated the city's health report, which showed as many as 882 cases of diarrhoea in the month of July alone, which means that on average 30 cases of diarrhoea were reported on each day …
6.1 per cent households source their drinking water from untreated sources: report. It’s no secret that the Capital annually suffers from an alarming rise in the cases of cholera, acute diarrhoeal diseases and typhoid after the onset of monsoon. “Contaminated and unsafe water,” according to doctors “is one of the …
Death Certificates Show Higher Toll, Says NGO Report The city's ill-health graph is a bit skewed, claimed NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday. It used data drawn from BMC's health department to show a huge disparity between the number of deaths the civic body attributes to diseases and the reasons given …
Tulasipur (Dang), July 13: Number of patients suffering from different diseases has increased in the district for the few days. According to the government hospitals in the district—Rapti Sub-Regional Hospital, Ghorahi, and Rapti Zonal Hospital, Tulasipur—number of patients suffering from different diseases including fever, typhoid, pneumonia, vomiting, and cold and …
SAPTARI, July 7: The number of people suffering from Typhoid is on the rise in the district, with the rise in temperature and rainfall. The Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital in Rajbiraj has been receiving an increasing number of people coming with complaints of viral fever and typhoid, according to Ram …
A 51-year-old woman died while scores of others were taken ill due to typhoid and viral fever in various VDCs in the district in the past two weeks. Him Kumari Pun, a permanent resident of Baphikot-5, reportedly died of typhoid on Tuesday. District Police Office said Pun, who was suffering …
