Waterborne diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

Ailing Orissa

Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …

Ailing Orissa

Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …

Diarrhoea: 35 taken ill in Jajpur village

JAIPUR: As many as 35 persons have reportedly taken ill in the last three days in Nahanakula village under Korei block in the district. Suspecting an outbreak of diarrhoea, a medical team from the district headquarters hospital has arrived in the village for medical aid and to sensitise the affected …

HC seeks status report on cholera epidemic

Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to file a status report on the outbreak of cholera and diarrhoea diseases in each affected district. A division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice V Gopalgowda and Justice Indrajit Mahanty, while adjudicating over a PIL filed by …

Household water treatment affordable

Experts and field workers have stressed promotion of household water treatment methods to evade any health crisis among the masses, especially in the flood-hit areas. The participants at the second meeting of household water treatment (HWT) working group at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Tuesday decided to promote cost-effective …

Household water treatment affordable

Experts and field workers have stressed promotion of household water treatment methods to evade any health crisis among the masses, especially in the flood-hit areas. The participants at the second meeting of household water treatment (HWT) working group at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Tuesday decided to promote cost-effective …

Antibiotics given by quacks poses health risks: Study

A good number of unqualified village doctors practicing allopathy have been prescribing antibiotics for quick recovery from various infections, putting health of rural patients at high risk, an ICDDR, B study reveals. The study, still going on since the last three years, says the village doctors, almost 95 percent of …

Diarrhoea toll reaches nine in Malkangiri

MALKANGIRI: Diarrhoea has claimed nine lives since last month in Podia panchayat here. Its outbreak in the district has become a major concern for the State government which has been facing criticism from the Opposition Congress for failure to provide adequate health facilities in the epidemic zone of Rayagada. In …

Surveillance on outbreak of waterborne diseases

Village nurses and sanitary inspectors assigned to monitor Health department launches a poster campaign to sensitise people to preventive measures Hospitals told to report cases of A (H1N1) flu, dengue, malaria and filariasis to health officials TIRUCHI: The Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has launched a surveillance to …

'Off-grid' cellphone towers could save lives

Electricity from rural cellphone towers in poor countries could chill vaccines, saving 5 million lives every year, say Harvey Rubin and Alice Conant.

More diarrhoea cases reported

Rajahmundry, Sept. 15: In the aftermath of the heavy rains accompanied with three spells of floods in the Godavari river and prevailing inclement weather conditions, a large number of people are suffering with several health problems including water borne diseases like diarrhoea and viral fevers like malaria, dengue and swine …

Diarrhoea spreads to Balangir, 132 affected

BALANGIR: Diarrhoea is spreading fast in Balangir district with 53 more cases being reported in the last two days taking the total to 132. The condition of seven persons is stated to be critical. With district health officials here unprepared, it is on the verge of taking the shape of …

Cong seeks Naveens visit to cholera-hit areas

Bhubaneswar: Holding the Odisha government responsible for the spread of cholera in the southern region, the State Congress on Tuesday demanded chief minister Naveen Patnaik's visit to the worst-hit Rayagada district and apologize for failing to keep his promises. Cholera is spreading in districts like Rayagada, Koraput and Nabarangpur due …

Cholera toll mounts to 68 in Rayagada

Rayagada: Health minister Prasanna Acharya on Tuesday visited the cholera-affected pockets in Rayagada district even as two more deaths were reported from Kalyansinghpur village under Kashipur block taking the toll at 68. The minister, accompanied by health secretary Anu Garg, visited a few cholera-hit villages and supervised the emergency relief …

Lack of hospitals aids spread of diarrhoea

RAYAGADA/MALKANGIRI: Even as Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Secretary Anu Garg accompanied by the Southern Division RDC CS Kumar and Rayagada Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale visited the worst-affected Lakapai village under Kalyansinghpur block this afternoon, the situation is far from better. There is no primary health centre neither in the …

100 tribals down with diarrhoea

Warangal, Sept. 14: About 100 tribals people fell ill after drinking contaminated water in Kommarigudem thanda in Wardhanapet mandal on Tuesday. While 50 people were treated at Wardhanapet civil hospital, including 25 who have been given intravenous liquid, the rest were treated at a special medical camp at Inovolu primary …

76 fresh cases of dengue in Delhi, cholera on the rise

New Delhi: With 76 new cases of dengue reported on Tuesday, the toll has risen to 1933.

Govt refutes allegations of gastro deaths in KBK

Bhubaneswar: Refuting allegations that poor people in the KBK region died of gastroenteritis by consuming mango kernel and other uneatable stuff in recent months, the Odisha government on Monday claimed that Rs 2 a kg rice scheme was doing well in the area. Allegations that the people are deprived of …

Free flow of toxins, a health hazard

KOCHI: The single most health hazard for people living in the suburbs and surrounding villages of Kochi is the disposal of sewage in public places. There is hardly any attempt on the part of the authorities to take action against unauthorised septic tank cleaning agencies. As a result such agencies …

Hunger politics takes centrestage

BHUBANESWAR: As people keep falling ill or even drop dead in the tribal pockets of undivided Koraput, the politics of mango kernel has come back to haunt the State. Both the government and the Congress have begun quibbling over facts and figures as the epidemic keeps spreading dangerously. Over the …

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