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 …
Maputo — The vaccination campaign against cholera in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has reached almost 70 per cent of its target of 884,000. According to the latest figures released by the Health Ministry, as of Sunday morning, 593,019 people over the age of one had been vaccinated. The …
Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, water and shelter after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. As of Monday, at least 847 people had been reported killed by the storm, the flooding it caused and heavy rains before it hit. Following is an outline of …
Mchinji — Mchinji District Health Office officials have diagnosed two cholera cases at Mikundi Health facility in the district, an incident that has put a dent on Mchinji's record of zero cholera cases for the past four years. Confirming the development on Friday, Mchinji District Health Promotions Officer, Owen Chataika …
The number of confirmed cases of cholera in the cyclone-hit Mozambican port city of Beira jumped from five to 138 on Friday, as government and aid agencies battled to contain the spread of disease among the tens of thousands of victims of the storm. Cyclone Idai smashed into Beira on …
Cholera cases in cyclone-hit Mozambique have risen above 1 400, government officials said on Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses arrived in an attempt to limit the rapid spread of the disease. Authorities announced a second death from cholera, which causes acute diarrhea and is spread by contaminated …
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that 38 million U.S. dollars will be allocated to contain and minimize the extent of cholera outbreak in central Mozambique in the next three months. The announcement was made by Matshidiso Moeti, WHO's regional director for Africa, in the emergency operation center …
Cholera has infected at least 1,052 people in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit region, the health ministry said on Monday in a new report, marking a massive increase from 139 cases reported four days ago. The new data represents on average more than 200 cases of new infections each day. Although hundreds have …
Cases of cholera in Mozambique soared to 517 people in Sofala province, the government of Mozambique said Sunday, while announcing that a first cholera fatality is now reported in the hard-hit port city of Beira. The cholera spike, feared in the wake of devastating Cyclone Idai, has prompted officials to …
The number of confirmed cases of cholera in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit port city of Beira has nearly doubled to 271 in the last 48 hours, the southern African nation’s government said on Saturday. Government and aid workers are seeking to contain the spread of the disease after cyclone Idai smashed into …
More than 10 cases of cholera have been reported in Nairobi since the outbreak of the disease in the capital two weeks ago. Nairobi County Health chief officer Dr Washington Makodingo said that so far 14 patients with cholera symptoms have been hospitalized in different health facilities in Nairobi since …
Mozambique will start a cholera vaccination campaign next week in areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, after five confirmed cases were detected. Thousands of people were trapped for more than a week in submerged villages without access to clean water after Cyclone Idai …
Mozambique has confirmed 139 cases of cholera in the wake of a tropical cyclone that hit the southern African nation and killed more than 460 people. None of the cases has yet proven fatal, Ussene Isse, a director at the nation’s health ministry, said Thursday by phone. A day earlier, …
UN human rights staff in Yemen are investigating an apparent airstrike on a hospital in opposition-held territory which reportedly killed at least seven civilians on Tuesday, amid fears that cholera is spreading “like wildfire”, one of the organization’s senior humanitarian officials has warned Condemning the attack on Kitaf District in …
After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, corruption and indifference, South Africans are vulnerable to medieval, waterborne diseases and something even more serious: thirst. HEALTH-E NEWS reports. Villages, towns and even a capital city are experiencing severe water shortages, caused by a combination of years …
Dozens of fragile patients poured into a clinic in the wrecked Mozambican port city of Beira on Wednesday, as the government said it had confirmed the first five cases of cholera in the wake of deadly Cyclone Idai. Thousands of people were trapped for more than a week in submerged …
Drinking water in the Abaqulusi District Municipality in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal has been red-flagged after 60 people were treated for diarrhoea. The municipality has been placed under administration for various irregularities, including a failure to provide water which is fit for consumption. The illness also struck in neighbouring towns this month. …
Mozambique said on Wednesday five cases of cholera had been confirmed around the badly damaged port city of Beira after a powerful cyclone killed more than 700 people across a swathe of southern Africa. Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique around midnight on March 14 before tearing through neighbouring Zimbabwe and …
Rescue teams in Mozambique moved hundreds of people displaced by Cyclone Idai’s massive and deadly flooding to safer shelters on Monday, while the government made preparations for a cholera outbreak that it says is inevitable amid the devastation. In areas west of the port city of Beira, hundreds of people …
Weekly health bulletin by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) reported the rise in the waterborne diseases within city limits. In the first two weeks of the March 2019, the city has reported 331 cases. Summer season is appraoching, and yet waterborne diseases are on the rise in the city. So …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Doaba Paryavaran Samiti Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 15/03/2019. The issue for consideration is the remedial measures for the abatement of industrial or other pollution in Kali Nadi, Krishna and Hindon Rivers resulting in diseases and deaths …
