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 …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
AS nations marked 2014 World Toilet Day yesterday, the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that no fewer than 119 million Nigerians still use unsafe toilet facilities in homes and public places, while about 50 million of them actually defecate in public places. The agency noted that slow …
Nearly 300 children have died this year in desert communities in southern Pakistan, officials said yesterday, as poor monsoon rains and livestock diseases have combined to worsen malnutrition. The Thar desert, straddling the Indian border and one of Pakistan's poorest areas, has seen an alarming number of children suffering pneumonia …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday in New Delahi that an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to basic sanitation services, of which 792 million live in India. Maria Neira, Director of WHO's Department of Public Health and the Environment, said that this was as …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
WaterAid India (WAI) welcomes the high level political commitments of the Prime Minister on 15 August 2014 of setting 2019 as a goal to achieve universal access to sanitation. In an effort to support this renewed emphasis on ending sanitation crisis in India and also as a committed sector actor, …
Despite China’s rapid progress in improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) access, in 2011, 471 million people lacked access to improved sanitation and 401 million to household piped water. As certain infectious diseases are sensitive to changes in both climate and WSH conditions, we projected impacts of climate change on …
Kaduna — Over 150,000 children die of diarrhoea, largely caused by unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene practices, the (UNICEF) Representative in Nigeria, Jean Gough, has said. Gough said in a statement to mark the Global Hand Washing Day yesterday that hand washing with soap is one of the cheapest, simplest …
More efforts are needed from various partners to promote hand washing culture, especially among school-going children, to prevent sanitation diseases. The remarks were made by health officials as the country joined the rest of the world to mark the global Hand Washing Day in Nyabihu District. The Wednesday event, that …
A third of the 2·5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1·1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1·5 million who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases. The researchers aimed to assess the effectiveness of a rural sanitation …
The objective of the study was to estimate the impact on maternal and child mortality after eliminating user fees for pregnant women and for children less than five years of age in Burkina Faso.
Patna: Antibiotics consumption in Bihar has increased from 12% in 2009 to 20% today. According to state drug control department, Biharis consume antibiotics worth over Rs 600 crore every year. On the Rational Antibiotic Day on Sunday, doctors said the 'abuse' of antibiotics has led not only to side effects …
According to this new WHO report, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050; 38 000 due to heat exposure in elderly people, 48 000 due to diarrhoea, 60 000 due to malaria, and 95 000 due to childhood undernutrition WHO …
BERHAMPUR: With death of one Biswambar Nayak (20) of Jakameri village under Digapahandi block on Sunday, the death toll due to diarrhoea in the district reached to five. Sources said though Nayak was diagnosed with the disease last Thursday, he was being treated by a village quack as doctors were …
The health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has filed 197 complaints of sanitation against various restaurants and eateries in concerned courts. The department has levied fines worth Rs 19.37 lakh for violation of health and sanitation rules at these places in the city. Through mobile courts alone the corporation has …
GAIBANDHA : The people in the flood-hit areas of the district are being attacked with water borne diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, respiratory track infection, skin and eye infection with the recession of flood waters in the major rivers, reports BSS. According to sources water level of the Brahmaputra and Teesta …
Public Health Dept finds leakage in water pipes Four days after the outbreak of diarrhoea that affected over 250 persons in Sector 19 here and at Abheypur village, the Public Health Department finally detected faults in water supply pipes at four places today. A health official attends to a patient …
Bajhang, Sept 2: Roughly 85 per cent of drinking water sources and tap water in remote Himalayan district, Bajhang, are found with coliform bacteria that can cause life-threatening disease jaundice and diarrhea. The coliform bacteria was detected in a lab test of drinking water carried out by technical team of …
Hundreds of people have fallen ill due to viral fever, typhoid and diarrhoea in the district, health workers said. The Mahendranagar-based Mahakali Zonal Hospital said it receives 150 patients of the diseases on a daily basis. The number of patients with viral fever, typhoid and common cold has increased, said …
Almost 22,000 people in two arid districts of Rajasthan in India can now swipe a card and collect 20 litres of clean, drinking water for Rs 5 (one-hundredth of a pound). Water ATMs or kiosks, or reverse osmosis plants, have been installed in some of the villages of the districts …
