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 …
Using slashed fruits, direct exposure to dust, substandard drinks prepared through unhygienic ways cause dangerous diseases out breaks like gastro-enteritis, hepatitis A & E, typhoid, cholera and others. This was stated by Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) Chairman Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh while addressing a lecture held under the auspices of …
The monsoon may be some time away but waterborne diseases like cholera have already registered a rise in numbers in Delhi. According to the latest daily disease surveillance report, dated May 18, released by the MCD Health department, 37 cholera-related cases and deaths were reported from the city in the …
PARLAKHEMUNDI: Soaring mercury has made life hell in Gajapati district. While the people are unable to cope with the rising heat, acute shortage of drinking water in rural areas has compounded the problem. Residents in urban areas, including district headquarters of Parlakhemundi, are less affected by the water crisis, but …
At least five children died of diarrhoea and another 568 have been attacked in five upazilas including Barisal City Corporation (BCC) area of the district in the last one and a half month due to severe heat. According to an official source, of the total, 395 children have been attacked …
With a sharp rise in temperature, the complaints of diarrhoea have been reported from different villages in the district. More than 250 patients of diarrhoea have so far been reported to local nursing homes or private hospitals. According to the information, almost each house is reporting patients of diarrhoea at …
Hamirpur: Residents of Bari village under the Pharnol panchayat, where 124 persons had developed symptoms of diarrhoea on Monday, have said that there might be residues of some dead animal or bird in the bowli water that led to its contamination. Meanwhile, 59 fresh cases of diarrhoea were reported today. …
Although there were less incidences of diarrhea in the city for last few days, the number of patients is likely to increase gradually over the next few days due to use of contaminated water, physicians at the ICDDR'B apprehended yesterday. "We are apprehending that the incidence of diarrhea can rise …
Over sixty eight deaths and 4,600 dengue cases were reported during the first five months. This was three hundred percent more than the number of dengue cases recorded within the same period last year. A spokesman for the Health Ministry said yesterday (15), that eight houses with mosquito breeding places …
May 14: With there being no vaccine against cholera as yet, the state health officials are having a tough time. The secretary of health, Mr L.V. Subramaniam, says that a vaccine against cholera is only in its trial stages at the Central Research Institute in Kasouli, Himachal Pradesh. It can …
In the Kuttanad region of Kerala, intensive untreated human sewage and agricultural activities have caused severe surface water contaminations. At the same time, other sources of fresh water are unreliable for drinking: ground water is acidic due to the soil conditions and iron leaching; fresh water from public tap is …
In the Kuttanad region of Kerala, intensive untreated human sewage and agricultural activities have caused severe surface water contaminations. At the same time, other sources of fresh water are unreliable for drinking: ground water is acidic due to the soil conditions and iron leaching; fresh water from public tap is …
May 13: In all, 56 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting were reported at the government hospitals in the city on Wednesday. Among them, only four patients at Gandhi Hospital and one at Osmania Hospital are from Bholakpur, said the health officials. The new patients came from places like Moula …
May 12: At least 40 more people were hospitalised at the Wardhannapet government hospital in Warangal. This is in addition to the 100 others who had been hospitalised after consuming contaminated drinking water. People from different localities are now getting admitted to the government hospital after complaining of vomiting, loose …
May 12: The disease outbreak in Bholakpur seem-ed out of control with one more person succumbing and 53 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting being reported on Tuesday. The toll in eight days of cholera in Bholakpur in the city now stands at 13. Elsewhere, at least 40 more people …
May 12: Diseases supposedly on the verge of eradication have reared their deadly head in the state. A cholera epidemic in Bholakpur, an anthrax outbreak in Visakhapatnam and the recurrence of polio cases, are the recent reminders that yesterday
The government has completed different projects in water and sanitation sector in Kurram Agency, Frontier Region (FR) Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar to control water born diseases and ensure safe drinking water supply to people. According to a statement issued by the Fata Secretariat a water supply, storage and distribution …
Water supply to half of the town remains suspended for 45 days due to construction of a drain network. The affected areas include Manzoorabad, Najam colony, Masan Nako, Mallah chowk, workshop, Chhano Shahabad, New bus stand, Johi More and Pir Bux colony. People believe that the shortage is artificial. On …
HYDERABAD: The health authorities on Saturday confirmed that 16 patients, who were admitted to the Fever and the Gandhi Hospitals here between May 5 and 6, have tested positive for cholera. Out of the 16 confirmed, 12 were from the Fever Hospital while the rest were admitted in the Gandhi …
May 7: Nearly 100 fresh cases, mostly children suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, were reported at various hospitals in the city on Thursday while some of the patients were refusing to leave the hospital despite being given the discharge slip. The principal secretary for health, Mr L.V. Subramaniam said:
With rain and moderate fall of temperature weather has somewhat improved and the scourge of diarrhoea has slightly fallen down. The temperature of Dhaka yesterday was 34 degree celsius. The temperature of last week on the same day was 36.5 degree celsius. People in the capital have experienced a 14-year …
