Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re: News item appearing in The Hindu dated 21.12.2023 titled “6 dead, 1000 infected in suspected cholera outbreak in Rourkela dated 22/12/2023. The original application is registered in suo-moto exercise of power on the basis of the news item …
Panchayats Used Inferior Bleach For Treatment Pune: An analysis of the drinking water quality from 17,000 water sources in Pune district by the health department of the Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) has revealed contamination. Of the 3,157 water samples collected in October, 592 or 19% were contaminated. Of the 3,144 …
An estimated 4.21 crore population in the country may be at risk due to chemical contamination in drinking water, Government today said. Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation Bharatsinh Solanki said that of the 16,90,870 rural habitations in India, 78,757 have at least one drinking water source affected …
Efficacy and safety of a two-dose regimen of bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad, India) to 3 years is established, but long-term efficacy is not. We aimed to assess protective efficacy up to 5 years in a slum area of Kolkata, India.
Despite World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification of two safe and effective oral cholera vaccines (OCV), concerns about the acceptability, potential diversion of resources, cost and feasibility of implementing timely campaigns has discouraged their use. In 2012, the Ministry of Health of Guinea, with the support of Médecins Sans Frontières organized …
A cholera outbreak in central Mexico has risen to 159 confirmed cases and spread to four states as well as the capital, the country's health minister said on Monday. One death has been attributed to the outbreak, the ministry said as it launched a nationwide public health campaign aimed at …
New Delhi: Even as the Delhi government chose to highlight Delhi as a “vibrant city” based on data from the Delhi Statistical Handbook 2013, the report reveals the capital’s dismal performance in curbing infant mortality rate. In 2012, this rate was 23.94 per 1,000 live births—the highest since 2007 when …
Seven Cases Of Cholera, 11 Of Dengue Seen In Week The city continues to reel under an onslaught of water- and vectorborne diseases despite a brief lull in rainfall over the past week. Over 500 people had to be hospitalized with gastroenteritis and malaria over the duration of a week. …
A cholera outbreak at a village in north-east Afghanistan has infected 1,492 people, killed a young woman and left another 100 in critical condition, a provincial official said today. Mr Abdul Marouf Rasekh, a spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan province, said the outbreak began three days ago and was …
Water contamination in flood-affected panchayats of Abujhmarh in Narainpur district of south Chhattisgarh may result in a huge death toll, it is feared. The secretary of one of the affected panchayats, Kamluram Netam, has told journalists of Narainpur that several panchayats of the area are “severely affected and the death …
July Figures Slightly Better Than June’s The quality of water suppliedin July wasbetter than the previous month but more than one out of seven samples have been found to be contaminated. In June, the number of contaminated samples was one in every five. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has attributed …
Fresh diarrhoea cases were reported from Kashipur block of Rayagada district on Tuesday. Official sources said at least 15 people, including four children, of remote Bahardulki and Kichikhal villages are suffering from the disease but are unable to reach Kashipur hospital due to lack of road communication. "The villagers are …
The civic administration has for the first time admitted that 40 cases of cholera were recorded in a single month in July. Giving out the total count so far, BMC additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar on Tuesday said there had been 52 cases in the last two months. The BMC …
Contesting the figures released by the NGO Praja on dengue and cholera deaths in the city, the BMC claimed on Monday that there had been only five deaths due to dengue and no deaths due to cholera in 2013. Senior health officials told TOI that death certificates issued by quacks …
Mumbai: Nine more cases of cholera have come up in the past one week, taking the total count of patients to 25 this month. Water-borne diseases continue to rise as complaints of contamination sweep several wards. Gastroenteritis has also seen an overwhelming rise at more than 1,936 cases being reported …
Two villages in Anand district has been declared as "cholera-hit", a senior administration official said Saturday. "Cholera cases were found at Boria and Silvai villages of Petlad tehsil," district health officer R B Patel said. "At Boria, the surrounding area up to 10 km has also been declared as cholera-prone. …
At least five people, two of them children, have recently died of cholera and over 20 people are suffering from it in Panjpai tehsil of Quetta district near Afghan border. The deaths have occurred in Pashtoon Kot area, some 70km from here, in the absence of any emergency medical aid, …
The capital might be staring at the possibility of a cholera outbreak even as a swine flu death was reported on Monday, raising questions about the general sanitation levels and quality of drinking water supplied. In a further alarming twist, doctors had initially feared that the swine flu victim, who …
One in four samples of drinking water in the city was found contaminated in tests at the Pune-based State Public Health Laboratory (SPHL) last month. The problem has increased significantly this monsoon, with 26% of the samples found unfit for consumption as against 16% last year. Water contamination exceeding 10% …
The civic body’s epidemiology report for monsoon ailments has acknowledged 12 cases of cholera in the city. A month into the monsoons and people with enteric diseases have swarmed city hospitals. Cases of gastroenteritis, particularly, have gone up by 15% in June, compared to the corresponding period last year. Five …
Recent extreme temperatures that are commonly followed by floods can largely be attributed to climatic warming Near-record temperatures in Pakistan have claimed hundreds of lives and devastated crops in the third major heatwave in four years. But as temperatures on Friday dipped to under 38C (100F), signalling the end of …
