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 …
Speakers at a conference stressed the need to spread awareness pertaining to the significance of safe food to discourage the consumption of unhygienic and unhealthy foodstuffs. These views were expressed by several speakers at the 8th international food conference, jointly organised by English Biscuit Manufacturers (EBM), the makers of Peek …
Roughly 48,000 tons of solid waste is generated every day in the Pakistan, while, most of the collection is dumped on low-lying land or is burned. According to an update study report on Environment Issues, released by Asian Development Bank revealed that the industrial sector is responsible for discharging some …
A total of 2,275 people were affected with diarrhoea across the country in past 24 hours till 5:00pm on Tuesday, according to the health services control room. Seven hundred and 21 diarrhoeal patient were admitted to the ICDDR,B hospital during this time, said the control room record. Forty per cent …
With the advent of summer, diarrhoea has broken out in an epidemic form in the capital city of Dhaka mainly due to scarcity of pure drinking water. More than one thousand diarrhoea-affected people were admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) during last two days, according …
Seven people died of diarrhoea in the Dhaka city and Jossore in the past seven days till 5:00pm on Friday as waterborne diseases spread in many parts of the country because of contaminated water and hot and humid weather, according to the health control room. According to the health directorate
Kaushik Chakravarthy, Bangalore, DH News Service: Doctors and Public Health Bodies in the city are preparing themselves for summer outbreaks and have suggested a series of precautions. A Joint Monitoring Committee comprising health officers of the BBMP, executive engineers from the BWSSB and officials from the BMP has been set …
PARADIP: More than 25 persons of coastal villages of Balikuda block have been affected by diarrhoea following consumption of contaminated water. Sources said 20 to 25 coastal villages under Balikuda and Ersama blocks are reeling under acute water crisis as a result of which, people are forced to consume contaminated …
AROUND 200 adolescent girls employed in a textile mill in the suburbs of Madurai are down with diarrhoea and vomiting on March 8 and many of them are still undergoing treatment in hospital. According to trade union sources, these girls were victims of the Sumangali Thittam, where young women are …
At least 200 people, most of them women and children, have been affected. Residents have attributed the disease to water contamination, as there are no proper drinking water facilities Water from the lake, which is sometimes brackish, is pumped into a tank, from where it is made available to the …
Around 400 residents demonstrated outside Mahestala municipality on Tuesday morning demanding immediate removal of denim dyeing and bleaching units from the area. According to the protesters, the 1,500-plus denim dyeing units in the area
KOLKATA, Feb. 20: Unable to pull up its own people for their failure to prevent an outbreak of diarrhoea in areas of Garden Reach due to drinking water contamination, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to put the Garden Reach Waterworks, under Kolkata Metropolitan Water & Sanitation Authorities, a …
The civic body on Tuesday claimed that overflowing drains and use of mono-block (household) pumps in illegal buildings had caused the outbreak of diarrhoea in Garden Reach, while residents continued to protest water contamination in the area. A four-year-old girl had died on Monday, allegedly after drinking water contaminated with …
Calcutta, Feb. 16: Suspected sewage contamination of drinking water supplied by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation to Garden Reach has made many children sick and prompted allegations that the toxic mix caused the death of a four-year-old. At least 30 people, most of them children, have been affected by an outbreak …
Two more carcasses of leopards were found near Javagal in Hassan district on Tuesday. In the last three days, three leopards have died near Javagal. On Tuesday, the carcasses were found at Buchenahalli Kavali near Nerlige village. There were no external injuries on them. The mysterious death of leopards has …
Staff Reporter KANCHEEPURAM: The consumption of fish, netted from a heavily polluted lake near here, is believed to be the cause of acute diarrhoeal disease that affected more than 500 persons in the town and adjoining hamlets in the past six days, as the test of the drinking water sample …
Even as 48 fresh cases of diarrhoea were reported in Chinna Kanch-eepuram on Sunday, the threat of the epidemic spre-ading to other villages, and even Chennai, looms large. While the regional district municipality officer confirmed drinking water contaminated with sewage as the cause for the outbreak on Thursday, and promises …
It seems India just can't save its little babies. Globally 9.7 million babies under five die and 2.1 million are in India alone. Around 27 million births occur in India every year, but 1.7 million infants die before one year and 1.08 million within one month. An India Report on …
