The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
Modasa (Guajarat): In a startling revelation, officials investigating the outbreak of Hepatitis-B in Sabarkantha, Gujarat, have found that one out of seven private doctors from Dhansura, booked for medical negligence, had re-used syringes while treating patients. The disease on Friday claimed three more lives taking the official toll to 32. …
Modasa/Ahmedabad: A week ago Mahir Abdul, 14, lost his mother Saiyadabanu to the deadly Hepatitis B virus that struck Modasa like a lightning. On Wednesday afternoon, Mahir, himself lay unconscious in the isolation ward of the Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, the toxins numbing his brain into a coma.
Banaskantha, The death toll due to Hepatitis virus infection in Sabarkantha district has risen to 18, with seven fresh cases reported on Monday even as a five-member Central medical team reached the Modasa taluka to take stock of the situation.
LUCKNOW: The district medical authorities would be carrying out a Hepatitis-B vaccination drive in rural areas in and around Lucknow. The drive is expected to begin in the second week of February. Chief medical officer (CMO), Lucknow, Dr AK Shukla said that though they are yet to prepare an outline …
Jerash refugee camp is one of the ten official Palestinian refugee camps located in Jordan. It is inhabited by about 28,000 people who originally fled from Gaza, Palestine, in 1968, as a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Wastewater has been used for irrigation in Jordan for several decades. Some …
The Sindh government has planned to vaccinate 1.4 million newborns and 245,000 adults against hepatitis B and provide treatment to about 16,600 patients of hepatitis C during this fiscal year under the
People with pancreatic cancer are more likely than those without the disease to have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, a study has shown for the first time. The finding suggests that hepatitis B - already known to cause liver cancer in some patients - may also increase the …
Contaminants in the city's water supply are a major cause of several infectious diseases, including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, polio, cryptosporidiosis, ascariasis, and schistosomiasis, Daily Times learnt from health experts on Sunday. Corroded pipelines: The experts said that human excreta had polluted the water supply in the city during the recent …
Subsoil drinking water in Sahiwal district contains heavy proportion of sulphate and fluoride, according to the lab testing of water samples of different areas of the district. The excessive presence of sulphate and fluoride cause hepatitis, teeth deformation in children, unhealthy bone development, stomach diseases, especially constipation, joints problems, drowsiness …
CUTTACK: Even as non-inclusion of Hepatitis B in the national immunisation programmes by the Government continues to rankle campaigners against the killer disease, an amazingly low level of awareness or negligent attitude among the medical personnel has emerged as a major concern. Awareness on Hep-B is very poor among the …
PATHANAMTHITTA: District Collector P C Sanalkumar said on Wednesday that a task force was set up to check the spread of Hepatitis A in the district. Addressing a meeting to discuss measures to control the spread of Hepatitis A, the Collector said that as part of the programme, water sources …
Frustrated over the failure of the Rs 2.5 billion National Programme for the Control and Prevention of Hepatitis (NPCPH) to deliver the goods in the last three years, the Health Ministry bosses and experts are now busy re-designing the current strategy to fight the viral disease whose sufferers are around …
District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that hepatitis-B and C are posing a great challenge to the world, including Pakistan, and the issue needs to be tackled on war footing. He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a free medical camp set-up at Behram village by Ehasas Welfare …
The Ministry of Health has instructed all the provinces to concentrate on the prevention of hepatitis in accordance with the PC-1 of Prime Minister's Hepatitis Control Programme. The federal government also slashed the quantity of the hepatitis vaccines to the provinces, sources said. The government had launched a five-year programme …
At least 20 million Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), 2.0 million Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and 0.26 million HIV new infections are associated with unsafe use of injections every year across the world, experts quoting a WHO report said yesterday. They also warned that South East Asia is a red zone …
