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 Ministry of Health has released measures to curb the cholera outbreak which has affected 10 counties. "The outbreak has successfully been controlled in Migori, Homa Bay and Bomet counties," said Health CS James Macharia. Macharia said the ministry has issued a cholera outbreak alert and distributed educational material to …
THE government is struggling to contain the spiralling cholera outbreak, which has so far killed about 50 in four months. The Health ministry says 10 counties have been hit by the killer disease, with about 2,520 cases being reported. "As of May 11, 2,520 cases and 50 deaths had been …
To adopt a model slum where a osmosis plant will be placed Each summer, the city sees a spike in water-borne diseases. However, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has decided to educate and bring in a positive change this summer with ‘one slum at a time.’ The association has announced …
The weekly diseases surveillance report of the Ministry of Health and Child Care shows that 12 people have died of diarrhoea throughout the country, bringing the death toll so far this year to 183.Mashonaland Central is the hardest hit. The Ministry of Health and Child Care weekly surveillance report shows …
Seven persons, including three children, were said to have lost their lives as a result of water borne diseases in Gwomani village, a community in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The traditional ruler of the community, Alhaji Adamu Saba, who disclosed this in an interview with …
Four people were killed and and 35 others admitted in critical condition following a cholera outbreak in Kibera, Nairobi. The four died upon arrival for treatment on Tuesday night, said Mbagathi District Hospital CEO Andrew Suleh. Suleh said more patients were being received and would be treated in tents set …
Two people died last week from a diarrhoea outbreak in Mbeere South, Embu county. Twenty-two others have been treated for the condition. This has prompted Embu county to issue restrictions on food handling. Last Thursday a 15-year-old boy died in Kakawa village and on Saturday in Masamba, a 70-year-old man …
Four people are reportedly dead as cholera outbreak has hit Ebonyi State, South East of Nigeria. Many people are said to be undergoing treatment in hospitals in the towns, while those in rural communities patronise herbal homes in search of cure. Health watchers in the state attribute the outbreak to …
At least 30 people have been killed in the latest cholera outbreak in Isoko South community of Nigeria's oil-rich Delta State, a health official said Monday. Steven Ofili, chief epidemiologist at the Delta State health ministry, said prompt response and physical attention of health workers had curbed the spread of …
Masvingo — An outbreak of cholera has hit Chingwizi where nearly 3 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims are resettled with three cases of the deadly disease recorded last week. This forced the Government to deploy surveillance teams to closely monitor the health situation in the area amid growing fears that the …
THE Migori county government has been praised for its efforts to control the cholera outbreak. The disease broke out in February, killing 10 people. It was reported in Homa Bay, Kisumu and Siaya counties. World Health Organization representative Custodia Mandlhate said the county moved with speed to contain the disease. …
This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries, and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water-risk exposure, the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics, and institutional and governance architectures. The analyses focus on four mutually dependent dimensions – finance, innovation, …
Acute diarrhoea is on the loose in the capital and its outskirts. Records from Dhaka Shishu hospital alone show that every day some 420 children infected by this epidemic are receiving treatment in the hospital. This sudden and rapid rise in the incidence of severe diarrhea is alarming. Understandably, the …
Cholera continues to haunt people in Nsanje, with latest reports indicating that cholera cases have hit 159, and that the outbreak has also spread to the area of Chief Mbenje. District Environmental Health Officer (DEHO) Veronica Mkukumira told Malawi News Agency Monday afternoon that the situation was slowly getting out …
SAVAE: Save lives, property from unfolding disaster With heavy rainfall bringing back floods to the valley within seven months, Environment Watchdog, South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists [SAVAE] has said that nothing could move the government of Jammu and Kashmir over the past many months regarding disaster prevention. The organization …
Zanzibar — THE Zanzibar Ministry of Health has announced that at least 162 people mainly children have suffered bloody diarrhoea in the first 12 weeks of this month (March). Head of the Zanzibar Epidemiology and Diseases Surveillance Unit (ZEDS Unit) Dr Salma Masauni Yussuf said in a statement that the …
Cholera outbreak continue to pose panic in the lower shire of Nsanje district with a number of the affected now reaching 132 from 110 last week. Nsanje District Medical Officer Yamikani Masitala said they are concerned with the rate at which the disease is spreading. The pandemic reportedly spread to …
HARARE, where an Ebola outbreak killed more than 4,000 people in 2008, remains on high alert this month following 14 reported cases of cholera in the country since late February. The city has not recorded any cases of the disease, but conditions for an outbreak remain favourable, however, with the …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on contaminated water-related health problems, 17/03/2015. The number of cases of water borne diseases reported under IDSP during the year 2014-15 is given in this document. As per information provided by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, 14,132 habitations are affected by contamination of fluoride …
Agartala, March 15: Despite declining sanction of funds from the Centre, Tripura is all set to emerge as the best implementing state of MGNREGA scheme. Disclosing this to reporters, minister for rural development Naresh Jamatya said up to March 13 in the current financial year Tripura had succeeded in creating …
