Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to this latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report summarizes …
The city hospitals have been witnessing a rise in the number of diarrhoea and dehydration cases for the past one week. According to medical experts, exposure to excessive heat causes loss of fluids and a rise in the body temperature. This may occur at any age but is most common …
Noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for over 50 per cent of gastroenteritis or infectious diarrhea cases globally, can spread by air up to several metres from an infected person, a new study has warned. The study by researchers from Universite Laval in Canada suggests that measures applied in hospitals …
For over five years, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town has called for expanding access to safe and clean sanitation facilities in Khayelitsha and other townships in the city. Despite the overwhelming need for such services, the municipal government has yet to fulfill its duties to provide them at …
GURGAON: The Fortis hospital in Gurgaon has seen a string of unusual patients over the past fortnight - its own nurses. Some of them even had to be admitted in the hospital's ICU. About 50 members of Fortis Memorial Research Institute's (FMRI) nursing staff have fallen sick because of what …
Acute diarrhoea is on the loose in the capital and its outskirts. Records from Dhaka Shishu hospital alone show that every day some 420 children infected by this epidemic are receiving treatment in the hospital. This sudden and rapid rise in the incidence of severe diarrhea is alarming. Understandably, the …
Ahead of the World Health Day on April 7, the World Health Organisation has urged India and south east Asian countries to make food safety a priority and put in place comprehensive food safety policies to prevent future disease outbreaks. According to the international health agency, an estimated 7,00,000 children …
Zanzibar — THE Zanzibar Ministry of Health has announced that at least 162 people mainly children have suffered bloody diarrhoea in the first 12 weeks of this month (March). Head of the Zanzibar Epidemiology and Diseases Surveillance Unit (ZEDS Unit) Dr Salma Masauni Yussuf said in a statement that the …
Deputy Director Clinical Services (Nutrition) in the Ministry of Health, Janet Guta has said that the newly updated version of the National Guidelines on Nutrition Care Support and Treatment (NCST) for Adolescents and Adults is a hope in dealing with malnutrition in the country. She said the updated version of …
According to the study, 42.2% of Indian women are underweight when they begin pregnancy, nearly seven percentage points higher than the figure of 35.5% cited in the National Family Health Survey-3 A new research study finds that average maternal nutrition in India is not only much worse than what national …
According to a recent toll had revealed that the scare was hitting Malawi's borders more especially Mozambique borders. As of now Malawi24 can reveal that the Ministry of Health says the cases in Malawi have rapidly increased to 60 from 39 as it was initially projected. The Ministry's Spokesperson Henry …
India has emphasised inclusion of adaptation as a part of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). For understanding adaptation requirements, we need to understand and value climate change impacts first. This preliminary assessment tries to estimate the cost of global climate change impacts for India. The study aims at estimating first …
Maputo — Cholera has spread to the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, the provincial governor, Abdul Razak Noormahomed, told a press conference in the provincial capital, Quelimane, on Tuesday. Razak said that two cases of cholera were diagnosed on Monday, and a further six on Tuesday morning. All eight cases …
The swine flu toll in Maharashtra and Rajasthan has reached 100 and 40 respectively. According to reports, six deaths have been recorded in Mumbai due to the H1N1 virus outbreak while five more casualties were reported in Rajasthan on Tuesday. A total of 205 swine flu cases have been recorded …
Around 300 persons including children and women of a locality are said to have been suffering from diarrhoea at Mataur village, located in Sector 70, Mohali. Though the medical authorities are yet to react to the situation, the teams of Public Health and Water Supply and Sewerage Department have visited …
Hundreds of people have taken ill due to a diarrhoea outbreak in the ward number 40 of the city. Hordes of people in the Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Nagar and New Rattan Nagar areas of the city have fallen ill in January. The ward is straightaway being blamed on the …
KARACHI: Clean drinking water and better sanitation — the two key reasons whose absence exacerbate health indicators and spread diarrhoea — are still hard to come by in Sindh, it emerged on Sunday. Diarrhoea continued to hit children in many Sindh districts, including Khairpur Mirs from where the Sindh chief …
The Centre will soon launch an action plan against diarrhoea and pneumonia in four States, including Rajasthan. The aim is to end preventable child deaths from these two by 2025. As high as 36 per cent of all child deaths, below the age of 5, in India are caused by …
The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise. Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause …
KARACHI: A latest report prepared by the provincial government vis-à-vis the drought situation in Thar shows that 311 children under five years of age have died between December, 2013 and November this year, it emerged on Sunday. The report, submitted in the Sindh High Court by the chief secretary after …
Tribune News Service New Delhi, November 20 Lack of access to basic sanitation and drinking water continues to remain global challenge with a new report showing that 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, while one in seven practise open defecation. The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation …
