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 …
Meerut: Observing that the state government has failed to provide potable water to villages in six Uttar Pradesh districts where groundwater is contaminated with toxic elements -- Ghaziabad, Baghpat, Meerut, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur -- the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed the chief secretary to ensure supply of drinking …
People wait for the downpur to subside on a flooded rad in Alwar on Sunday.People wait for the downpur to subside on a flooded rad in Alwar on Sunday. Expressing concern over heavy rainfall in many parts of the state, chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Sunday directed the water resources …
The objective of the study was to extend a nation-wide rotavirus surveillance network in India, and to generate geographically representative data on rotaviral disease burden and prevalent strains. Original Source
Mozambique: Bankrupting Mozambique - From Poster Child to Cautionary Tale Health officials in Karonga are blaming fishermen for the continued cases of the deadly cholera disease in the lakeshore district. Lewis Tukula, a district environmental health officer said there are continued cases of cholera in some areas in the district …
Increase in cases of diarrhoea and related symptoms in district The district medical authorities have urged the public and food vendors to take precautionary measures in view of increase in the number of cases of diarrhoea and related diseases. An official press release issued by the District Medical Office here …
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of Ethiopia. Using primary household survey data and microbiological water test for Escherichia coli, use various estimation methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among …
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of Ethiopia. Using primary household survey data and microbiological water test for Escherichia coli, use various estimation methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among …
Koraput: The Koraput district administration has decided to ban the use of water pouches and polythene carry bags of thickness less than 40 microns during the car festival in the town. Thousands of people, including tribals from neighbouring villages, throng Koraput during the annual festival. They often dispose empty water …
Thiruvananthapuram: The state has decided to incorporate all the projects in the health sector under the United Nations sustainable development programme. Health minister K K Shylaja said that according to the sustainable development programme the third programme is the development of health sector. Since 2015 all the health policies of …
Typhoid fever remains a severe public health problem in developing countries. The emergence of resistant typhoid, particularly multidrug-resistant typhoid infections, highlights the necessity of monitoring the resistance characteristics of this invasive pathogen. In this study, we report a typhoid fever outbreak caused by multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains with …
Under-five mortality is declining in Ghana and many other countries. Very few studies have measured under-five mortality—and its social and environmental risk factors—at fine spatial resolutions, which is relevant for policy purposes. Our aim was to estimate under-five mortality and its social and environmental risk factors at the district level …
Zanzibar — The ministry for Health and Social welfare here said a total of 4,349 people were infected with cholera in the Isles since September 19, 2015. The director for Health Education and Disease Protection, Dr Mohamed Dahoma Fahim, told reporters yesterday that 2,608 were from Unguja and 1,624 from …
In Mozambique, at least 1.5 million people are in need of help because of an El Niño-induced drought, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. The UN humanitarian agency disclosed that El Nino, the harsh weather phenomenon – characterized by warmer sea temperatures that can …
Nebbi — Two people have died and 34 cases registered following an outbreak of cholera in Nebbi District. According to Dr Jakor Oryema, the Nebbi District health officer, three sub-counties, including Erussi, Parombo and Panyimur have been affected. The outbreak was first diagnosed from a Congolese. Dr Jakor said they …
“Cholera is still with us, but fortunately we have been recording a decline. This week (May 29 to June 4, 2016) we had 22 cases with one death,” Dr Mohamed Dahoma, Director, Prevention, said yesterday at a press conference on ‘Weekly disease update.’ He said use of toilets, keeping surroundings …
It is estimated that more than two-thirds of the population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) must leave their home to collect water, putting them at risk for a variety of negative health outcomes. There is little research, however, quantifying who is most affected by long water collection times. This study aims …
Health departments in Haiti have issued alerts on a looming cholera outbreak in the troubled Caribbean nation. Haiti’s cholera epidemic began just ten months after the devastating earthquake that shook the country in 2010. This year alone, there’s been an outbreak of 16,000 cases according to the country’s health ministry. …
Cholera cases have gone down by 49 per cent according to statistics covering the period from May 16 to 22, the Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ms Ummy Mwalimu, has said. The minister said new cholera cases in that period were 108 patients with no lives …
Health officials in Rumphi are battling with cholera, which has alarmingly affected 41 people from just four a few days ago and fear the number of patients might go up. District Health Officer for Rumphi , Bwanalole Mwamulimwa said health personnel in the district are on the ground to contain …
An analysis of bacterial community structure and antibiotic resistance gene content of interconnected human faecal and environmental samples from two low-income communities in Latin America was carried out using a combination of functional metagenomics, 16S sequencing and shotgun sequencing; resistomes across habitats are generally structured along ecological gradients, but key …
