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 …
In five years, the Karnataka government spent Rs 93.54 crore to check the quality of water under the National Rural Drinking Water programme. But at the end, the scheme failed with no progress on works, lack of maintenance, planning and seepages. The net result is that a large chunk of …
BHOPAL: As the temperature soars, city hospitals are reporting a spurt in heat related illnesses. According to data from the district civil hospital, of the 980 patients treated on Tuesday, 658 suffered due to the weather adversities. About a dozen patients of heat stroke were admitted for emergency care, said …
For years more than 400 slum clusters of Ahmedabad have been plagued by problems of water contamination and diseases every summer. Periodic cases of jaundice and cholera have been often traced to mixing of sewage with drinking water. But now the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health department is toying with …
The district administration and district health wing have initiated steps to prevent any possible outbreak of cholera in Kuttanad. Two cases of cholera have been confirmed in the area in the last few days. Following this a medical team led by district medical officer C Muraleedharan Pialli, visited Kuttanad on …
More than 6 million people across Angola, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe are at risk of severe food shortages because of repeated cycles of drought and flooding, the global humanitarian body IFRC said on Monday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the crisis was passing largely …
The 1.5 lakh inhabitants of Dhaka's biggest slum Korail Bosti are dependent on illegal and often dirty water that comes through a small, aboveground rubber tube. Although slum dwellers pay double prices compared to the inhabitants of official Dhaka neighbourhoods, they often fall sick from drinking this water. They suffer …
Increase in the number of multidrug resistant pathogens and the accompanied rise in case fatality rates has hampered the treatment of many infectious diseases including cholera. Unraveling the mechanisms responsible for multidrug resistance in the clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae would help in understanding evolution of these pathogenic bacteria and …
The supply of contaminated water to residents of Srinivagilu Tank Bed Layout in Koramangala for the last few months has left many people reeling under the effects of water-borne diseases such as typhoid, cholera and gastroenteritis. Dr P M Mathew, a professor from Christ University and a resident of the …
The source has been identified as a food seller who caught cholera during a previous outbreak in eastern Cuba Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades. An official statement said health workers had …
Cholera reappeared in Haiti in October, 2010 after decades of absence. Cases were first detected in Artibonite region and in the ensuing months the disease spread to every department in the country. The rate of increase in the number of cases at the start of epidemics provides valuable information about …
Iraqi authorities said a cholera outbreak that killed four people had been controlled, blaming contaminated water in a country still struggling with dilapidated infrastructure. The victims were mostly in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, where another 272 people were confirmed with the illness, Kurdistan's Health Minister Rekawt Hama Rasheed said on …
A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was "regrettable" but has been brought under control, the prime minister of the poor Caribbean nation said at the United Nations on Wednesday. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, but …
Action taken for alleged failure in monitoring statistics with regard to cholera deaths The State government on Monday suspended the Chennai Corporation’s city health officer P. Kuganantham, for an alleged failure in monitoring vital statistical information. The suspension was the outcome of a preliminary inquiry by the civic body’s joint …
The villages in Doti district hit by cholera epidemic are witnessing an exodus, with villagers migrating to highlands to save their lives. Cholera hit Doti in early June and has claimed 14 lives so far. Thousands of locals from worst hit areas, including Bagalek, Kadamandau and Sanagaun VDCs, have temporarily …
With the city recording nine cases of dengue, over a hundred cases of malaria and several of cholera this season, the deficient rain seems to be offering no solace to the health department which is now gearing up to take the full onslaught of vector and water-borne diseases that plague …
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine and its deployment; the appropriate size of an OCV stockpile; the managing partnership and evaluation processes required; the …
13 persons admitted to CDH with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea; 47 others being treated A total of 13 persons were admitted to Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet on Sunday with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. According to a Chennai Corporation official, the patients are residents of north Chennai. What …
DIPAYAL: With authorities failing to contain the spread of large number of diarrhoea cases in Doti since mid-June, health workers today confirmed the spread to cholera saying it might soon become an epidemic if corrective measures are not taken on a war footing. Local residents have been terrified and health …
125 under treatment, Residents protest MC ‘laxity’, Deaths not due to the disease, claims Civil Surgeon Patiala: Gastroenteritis has taken a fatal form in a Patiala colony. Three persons have already succumbed to the disease whereas 125 have been admitted to various hospitals in the city. Mixing of sewage with …
Study finds visitors to Bali, the Gambia and Goa use 16 times as much water as locals, causing conflict and disease The disproportionate use of fresh water by tourists in developing world destinations is causing local conflict, exacerbating poverty and helping to spread disease, says a report to be published …
