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 …
Six new cases of cholera have been reported in Sudan's El Gedaref state over the last two days. This adds to dozens of cases reported in the eastern Sudanese state last week. On Tuesday a health source told Radio Dabanga that the isolation centre at El Saraf El Ahmar area …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Water-Borne Diseases, 06/04/2017. As per the information provided by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, number of cases registered for water borne diseases like Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases, Enteric Fever (Typhoid), Viral Hepatitis (All Causes) & Cholera in the year 2014, 2015 & 2016 …
Cholera is spreading in Somalia, further complicating drought relief efforts as the country teeters on famine. Health officials are complaining about a lack of access to some areas due to security challenges. Health workers say at least 300 new cases and dozens of deaths are reported each day. World Health …
Cholera has claimed at least 64 lives in Jonglei, leaving over 128 people in the health care facilities in the county of Duk. JPEG - 24.9 kb A woman is given a cholera vaccine at a medical camp run by the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres in Minkamman, in South …
El Gedaref — Isolation centres in El Gedaref received dozens of new cholera patients last week. Two of them have died. In various parts of the eastern Sudanese state, dozens of people are suffering from the infectious disease, a health source told Radio Dabanga on Sunday. "Between 25-29 March, the …
This study found significant global decreases in all-cause child and adolescent mortality from 1990 to 2015, but with increasing global inequality. In countries with a low Socio-demographic Index (SDI), mortality is the primary driver of health loss in children and adolescents, largely owing to infectious, nutritional, maternal, and neonatal causes, …
The United Nations has raised alarm over a major outbreak of cholera in southern Somalia. Aid groups are already scrambling to help people suffering from severe drought and mass malnutrition. The UN is urging immediate action and aid to avert the crisis. Al Jazeera got access to a hospital in …
AHMEDABAD: Waterborne diseases appear to be on the rise in the city. This is evident with two fresh cases of cholera reported in civic body-run hospitals last week. According to the weekly health report issued by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), five cases of cholera were reported in civic body-run hospitals …
The area recently received around 6,000 displaced persons who fled a tribal conflict in El Nair area of East Darfur. The affected areas also host several thousands of South Sudanese refugees from Bahr el Ghazal region. Speaking to Sudan Tribune on condition of anonymity, a Sudanese official from the Humanitarian …
Neighbouring Mozambique last week identified three cases of cholera and has brought renewed fears of cholera outbreak among travelers, and some parts of the districts in the southern region of Malawi that shares borders with Mozambique. According to a health ministry document dated 11 March, 2017, and signed by the …
Water insecurity—ranging from chronic water scarcity to lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services, to hydrological uncertainty and extremes (floods and droughts)—can cause severe disruptions and compound fragilities in social, economic, and environmental systems. Untangling the role of water insecurity in contributing to fragility is difficult, yet …
Uncontrolled and unregulated pollution of water bodies in India is a matter of grave concern, and the Supreme Court’s direction to the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) to initiate stringent action against polluting industrial units across the country, has not come a day too soon. The court was acting on …
El Gedaref — Health sources from Sudan's El Gedaref state revealed the death of a child and infection of several others with cholera on Tuesday and Wednesday. Contaminated drinking water is the suspected source. The medics told Radio Dabanga that El Gallabat East locality recorded the death of a child …
El Gedaref / Port Sudan — Health workers in eastern Sudan reported that four new cases of cholera have emerged in several areas. Red Sea state said that the outbreak has been brought under control, praising the activities of civil society organisations. Basunda, El Hamra and El Baburi in El …
THE number of cholera cases recorded in Kafulwe fishing village in Chiengi district in Luapula Province have risen from four to 11. The vast and densely populated fishing and trading enclave is on the shore of Lake Mweru whose opposite shoreline is in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Minister of …
Dongola — The medical director of the Dongola Specialist Hospital in northern Sudan reports that the hospital admitted 20 cases of watery diarrhoea last week. On Thursday, Dr Moataz El Amin said in a press statement that the hospital received 20 people suffering from acute watery diarrhoea from the El …
El Gedaref — The rate of cholera infection which is claimed by Sudan's government to be acute watery diarrhoea has resumed rising again in El Gedaref after it has seen a drop down over the past period. A health source told Radio Dabanga that the isolation ward at El Gedaref …
A state hospital official said primary tests conducted in its laboratory have shown the disease could be Cholera. The sample was sent to Juba for further specialized testing to confirm the disease before an outbreak is declared. Cholera is an infectious disease characterized by intense vomiting and profuse watery diarrhea …
DAKAR, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Some 885 people in the Salamat region have been treated …
Makurdi — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has said that at least 240,000 Nigerian children die every year from diarrhoea related illness, one of the commonest childhood killer diseases. The Office Director of USAID Nigeria, Nancy Lowenthal, said the disturbing figure of children dying from diarrhoea ranked …
