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 …
Twenty people, most of them children, had died of gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases at DHQ Hospital in June. An official told Dawn on Thursday that 15 patients died at children’s ward and five at medical ward. Among the victims were Jamila Bibi, Sadia, Jaweria, Eman, Haris, Ehsan, Salman, Misbah, …
Epidemics of diarrhea and cholera that gripped Chandrapur-2, Gaidatar of the district some two months ago is still out of control. Locals are terrorized after the diseases started spreading to three others adjoining villages. People taken ill by the diseases are being treated at the proposed sub health post. Infected …
SIALKOT: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) and the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) have failed to provide potable water to the people of Sialkot city and surrounding areas. Health experts say the contaminated water has caused water-borne diseases among the people as the water is being supplied through rusted pipelines. …
The monsoon is about to come to Varanasi, India's ancient city on the Ganges, putting an end to the daily swimming lessons held in the river after school. The children will miss the cooling water, but some experts say it is so polluted the lessons should never be allowed at …
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 …
However, comprehensive care and support, treatment and preventative services are improving across PNG, resulting in people living with HIV leading longer and healthier lives. Owing to weakened immune systems, people living with HIV are at risk of many life threatening opportunistic infections, many of which are caused by exposure to …
Of the 867 water contamination complaints received in the first five months (January to May) of the current year by the BMC, 79 per cent — the highest — has been registered from the city. While the civic body has received 685 complaints from the island city, 127 has been …
Floodwater generally triggers waterborne disease like cholera, jaundice, typhoid and several others, but officials with Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Department of Health Services (DoHS) have been expecting massive flood, which they said that can be appropriate means to control the cholera epidemic. Officials hope that people …
In The Lancet, findings from Nita Bhandari and colleagues' phase 3 clinical trial1 show the safety and efficacy of the 116E rotavirus vaccine against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in Indian infants. The vaccine has an efficacy similar to that of two licensed oral rotavirus vaccines—RotaTeq (Merck) and Rotarix (GlaxoSmithKline)—when tested in …
NOIDA: Nearly 30% of employees in Noida's factories and entrepreneurial outfits have been missing from work this summer. Lack of clean drinking water and dependence on untreated tap water has led to more than five lakh workers falling sick with water-borne diseases. "There are over 7,200 industrial outfits in Noida …
The hospital authority is struggling to accommodate the staggering number of patients Diarrhoea has broken out alarmingly at nine union parishads in Munshiganj because of scorching heat. According to sources at Munshiganj Sadar Hospital, about 1,000 patients afflicted with diarrhoea, mostly children and elderly people, got admitted to the hospital …
This article analyses the water, sanitation and hygiene situation in slum households and compares it with the non-slum urban households using data from the 2011 Census. It argues for a shift from the mere water supply coverage to an emphasis on quality water distribution. Intermittent water supply coupled with poor …
Thirty-five out of 62 water samples collected in last three days have been found unfit for drinking. This also includes six out 20 water samples collected from different city localities by District Epidemic Control Unit (DECU) Allahabad on Wednesday. A team of DECU officials had collected water samples from 20 …
Experts say that the present outbreak of water-borne diseases is due to contamination in the drinking water being supplied to the general public. “Tests have revealed that 75 per cent of the water distributed in the valley is contaminated and unfit for drinking,” said Dr Mahendra Bahadur Bista, director of …
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and socio political issues associated with the flow. However, there is dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure as a hybrid of social and material construct facilitates disease emergence. The paper brings together urban metabolism, political ecology and anthropological …
Contaminated water is being supplied to several areas of the city, despite the Municipal Corporation's claims of replacing the old and broken sewerage pipes. Residents of Aman Nagar near the Jalandhar bypass complained that for the past three-four days, they were being supplied contaminated water, especially during morning hours. Puja, …
A high level team led by Minister for Health and Population Khagaraj Adhikari today made an inspection visit of Gaidatar, a diarrhoea-hit village of Chandrapur municipality in Rautahat district. Besides the minister, the team comprised Anand Shrestha, regional director of the central regional health directorate, Epidemiology Department Director Baburam Marasini, …
Docs Report Sharp Hike In Food & Water-Borne Diseases Health experts have sounded an alarm at the increase in cases of food and water-borne diseases due to consumption of locally available drinks, like fruit juices and nimbu paani, whose sales have shot up with the soaring temperature. Doctors say this …
The cholera outbreak that began around three weeks ago at Gaidatar settlement in Chandrapur-2 has also spread in the nearby Morange village. About 40 children at the Morange-based Saraswoti Primary School have taken ill due to the disease. The school has been closed for an indefinite period as students started …
