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. …
People in the country are at high risk of gastroenteritis, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A and E, typhoid, acute respiratory infection (ARI) as well as Blue Baby Syndrome, as safe drinking water is available to only 15% people in urban and 18% in rural areas. The quality of drinking water …
After a team of doctors of the district health department took blood samples of residents of Haryana Employees Welfare Organisation (HEWO) Society, MDC, Sector 5, who had reportedly fallen ill after drinking contaminated water, five cases have turned out to be positive for typhoid. According to the district civil surgeon …
With summer just around the corner can food poisoning and waterborne ailments like gastroenteritis be far behind? Especially since there are hardly any clean and safe drinking water taps in public places and busy areas of the city, forcing people to drink unhygienic water or buy plastic water bottles and …
Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number of viral Hepatitis (A, B, C & E) cases in the country if data released by Union ministry of health and family welfare is to be believed. Hepatitis is a dreaded disease that's deadly than HIV or asthma. Consumption of contaminated water is a …
With both the state government and centre in deep slumber, the dangerous but silent killer, Hepatitis-C, has started consuming precious lives in Kokernag in south Kashmir. Three patients have died during the last one month. Hundreds of patients are not getting any medicine either from the state government or the …
Health Dept Statistics Caution Against Diarrhoea Though the state boasts of high health standards, statistics revealed by the health department indicates severe threat from several communicable diseases. The data from 2006 to 2013 show that the state has been witnessing a rapid increase in the prevalence of communicable diseases, with …
The Punjab government is implementing a three-year scheme for prevention and control of hepatitis, with an estimated cost of Rs 2.447 billion. During the current fiscal year, an amount of Rs 754 million has been allocated for this programme. These views were expressed by Adviser to Chief Minister on Health …
Old and broken sewerage lines in the city that supply contaminated water to houses are one of the major reasons behind spread of hepatitis E. The sewerage lines in the city need to be repaired and sanitation to be improved. Also, it needs to be ensured that the drinking water …
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - Hyderabad—The Hepatitis Prevention and Control Programme (Chief Minister’s Initiative) in collaboration with Sindh Youth Affair Department has launched the awareness, screening and vaccination campaign in the educational institutions of the province. Under the campaign, a seminar was organised here at Government Girls College Latifabad Unit-8 …
Contaminated drinking water poses serious health threats to citizens of the Punjab capital. Water being supplied in the city through rusting pipelines is a major threat to the common man’s life. Though the government has allocated ample funds to replace them, yet the agency concerned has failed to complete the …
Thiruvananthapuram: The office of the commissioner of food safety has released a set of norms for food business operators (FBOs). The food safety commissioner has asked FBOs to comply with the norms within three weeks and enforcement teams will conduct spot checks from December 1 to ensure that rules are …
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has asked the health departments of all states to discontinue the use of a particular batch of Hepatitis B vaccine supplied to government hospitals across the country. The ministry has written to all states that the Central Drug Laboratory, Kasauli, has found …
The West Bengal government on Monday ordered a probe into the administering of Hepatitis B vaccine instead of polio vaccine at a medical camp in Hooghly district’s Goghat area that left 67 children ill on Sunday. Four health workers, including the camp supervisor and an Anganwadi worker, have been suspended. …
At least 114 children were hospitalised in Hooghly district after they were mistakenly given Hepatitis B vaccine orally instead of pulse polio drops. Six persons were suspended for the the lapse that triggered protests with angry villagers locking up health workersYesterday was pulse polio day so parents had taken their …
New vaccine comes with company's own R&D; involving an eight-year long effort and Rs 65 crore investment. Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech International Limited on Monday launched a new typhoid vaccine claiming it to be the world's first clinically proven typhoid conjugate vaccine. Company chairman Krishna M Ella said the new vaccine …
With the data provided by the Centre for Pollution Control (CPC), it has been found that majority of the city hospitals have been flouting the norms for biomedical waste treatment. CPC is a private organization, authorized by the VMC to collect and treat the biomedical waste from the city hospitals. …
Following 21 reported infant deaths since the introduction of Pentavalent vaccine in India in 2011, the government is planning a large-scale study to determine the safety of the vaccine and the cause of deaths, if any, among children post-immunization. The National Committee on Adverse Events Following Immunization under the Ministry …
THE death of one person in every thirty seconds from hepatitis in Asia is quite alarming. This worrying figure was disclosed on the eve of World Hepatitis Day which was observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere across the world recently. According to noted hepatologist and president of Hepatology Society, liver diseases …
As the world marked World Hepatitis Day on Sunday, experts in Patna say out of five strains of Hepatitis - also known as inflammation of liver - 'E' form has assumed epidemic portion in certain parts of the city. Hepatitis-E spreads through contaminated food and water. "In Patna, it has …
Around 7.8 percent of the population in the country carries the Hepatitis B virus, which puts them at risk of fatal liver diseases, revealed experts from the Hepatology Society in a press conference yesterday. Approximately 40 percent of these patients later suffer from chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis, they said …
