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 …
Panic gripped a Dalit locality at Rania village in Moga district on Thursday after a large number of people fell ill due to suspected diarrhoea outbreak and viral infection. At least 19 persons, including women and children, were admitted to the Civil Hospital at Badhni Kalan during the past 24 …
Health officials have found E-coli bacteria in all groundwater samples collected from Birampur in Greater Noida, where 200 residents had fallen ill over the past week. Health officials have distributed chlorine pills among villagers to purify the water before consuming it. However, villagers said they are concerned as this is …
The prevailing one-week-long diarrhoea outbreak has turned into a matter of great concern as the situation was deteriorating continuously, leaving an apprehension going the state out of control. While visiting, the correspondent found that the corridors and verandahs as well as any free space of the 250-bed Kushtia General Hospital …
Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation programs. India's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is one such program that seeks to end the practice of open defecation …
The number of cases of water-borne diseases reported in Sadar hospital and Ranchi Institute of Medical Sciences has been on the rise. In one month, around 58 patients suffering from diarrhoea and 28 patients suffering from malaria have been admitted to the Sadar Hospital. One woman suffering from malaria has …
NASHIK: The diarrhoea outbreak in Niphad was barely four days after the Nashik Municipal Corporation had collated the city's health report, which showed as many as 882 cases of diarrhoea in the month of July alone, which means that on average 30 cases of diarrhoea were reported on each day …
INDORE: At least 270 people have died of diarrhoea and 13.14 lakh people have been affected due to diarrhoea in the last three years in Madhya Pradesh. Data obtained from Directorate General of Health Services reveals that the numbers of diarrhoea cases in the state are continuously rising since past …
BEIJING - A total of 1,374 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in July, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Tuesday. A total of 776,608 infectious disease cases were reported last month, it said. Among them, one case of plague resulted in death, five …
What is Ebola virus disease? Ebola virus disease is a se vere haemorrhagic fever caused by viral infection. The virus causes internal and ex ternal bleeding in humans and non-human primates like monkeys, gorillas and so on. The disease was first no ticed in 1976 when Sudan and the Democratic …
Kanchanpur Aug 7: Locals of Bhimdutta Municipality have been affected by an outbreak of diarrhea in their locality. The cause behind the outbreak of the disease are consumption of stale food, drinking polluted water, lack of proper sanitation and not maintaining personal hygiene, it is learnt. As many as nine …
As many as 700 patients came to Sadar hospital until yesterday since Friday night A diarrhoea epidemic has affected hundreds of people since Friday night at Masjid Para, Majherpara, Baganpara, Masterpara, Mallik Para and Jintola Para in Chuadanga municipality. However, it had not claimed any life as of 8pm yesterday. …
The extensive use of antibiotics in the poultryindustry will make people antibiotic resistant. “This would mean that doctors will not be able to prescribe mild antibiotics when a person gets an infection since he will be already be antibiotic resistant,“ said Dr Syam Sunder, chief consultant at the general hospital …
ALLAHABAD: Twelve localities of the city are sitting on infectious disease keg owing to lack of proper chlorination of water supplied by Jal Nigam. The gravity of the situation can be realized by the fact that in seven areas chlorination is being done only once a month. A recent random …
A single plastic container, blue like the color of a recycling bin, sits on a conference table at the USAID headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. In sub-Saharan Africa, dispensers just like it have prevented thousands of children from dying each year of diarrheal disease caused by drinking dirty water. “That’s …
Experts Cite Unsafe Water, Poor Sanitation, Malnutrition As Causes The city recorded as many as 6,480 cases of acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) in between 2011 and 2013, data obtained by TOI shows. The number of cases increased from 1,612 in 2011 to 2,314 in 2013, which health experts say can …
The figures say it all. As many as 206,000 children under the age of five die due to diarrhoea every year. This means that in India, 564 deaths occur every day and 23 deaths every hour due to diarrhoeal infection. “Dehydration is the main cause of death in almost all …
6.1 per cent households source their drinking water from untreated sources: report. It’s no secret that the Capital annually suffers from an alarming rise in the cases of cholera, acute diarrhoeal diseases and typhoid after the onset of monsoon. “Contaminated and unsafe water,” according to doctors “is one of the …
More than 1.42 lakh children under the age of five year are being targeted in a diarrhoea prevention campaign that is going to be taken up by the Public Health Department and the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), a Central Government-sponsored social welfare scheme. The ‘Intensified Diarrhoea Control’ Programme would …
Three deaths in a day at Parkash Nagar raise questions over MC, Health Dept’s arrangements Water contamination continues to haunt people residing in some localities of the city. Every summer, the same story gets repeated: people losing their life due to diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases. Three deaths in a …
