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 …
Um Jar — Hundreds of people in the area of Um Jar in White Nile State are reportedly suffering from 'watery diarrhoea'. Mohamed Idris, Coordinator at the Um Jar Health Centre told Radio Dabanga that about 900 people in the area are stricken by 'watery diarrhoea'. "Luckily, the disease did …
An unusually high number of patients in the state suffering from the H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu), primarily known to attack the upper respiratory system, have shown gastrointestinal symptoms this year. The baffling observation, made by several physicians, has prompted the state health department to alert the medical fraternity to …
This study found significant global decreases in all-cause child and adolescent mortality from 1990 to 2015, but with increasing global inequality. In countries with a low Socio-demographic Index (SDI), mortality is the primary driver of health loss in children and adolescents, largely owing to infectious, nutritional, maternal, and neonatal causes, …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Contamination of Drinking Water, 16/03/2017. As per the reports of National Health Profile - 2015 published by the Central Bureau of Health Investigation, Directorate General Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, during the year 2014 (January to December), 1,323 deaths had occurred …
The area recently received around 6,000 displaced persons who fled a tribal conflict in El Nair area of East Darfur. The affected areas also host several thousands of South Sudanese refugees from Bahr el Ghazal region. Speaking to Sudan Tribune on condition of anonymity, a Sudanese official from the Humanitarian …
Uncontrolled and unregulated pollution of water bodies in India is a matter of grave concern, and the Supreme Court’s direction to the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) to initiate stringent action against polluting industrial units across the country, has not come a day too soon. The court was acting on …
Dongola — The medical director of the Dongola Specialist Hospital in northern Sudan reports that the hospital admitted 20 cases of watery diarrhoea last week. On Thursday, Dr Moataz El Amin said in a press statement that the hospital received 20 people suffering from acute watery diarrhoea from the El …
Slumped in his mother's lap in a health clinic in northeast Nigeria, three-year-old Hassan was too drained to cry or protest as the nurse wrapped a tape measure tightly around his arm. After weeks of fever, vomiting and diarrhoea - telltale signs of malnutrition - his gaunt face and glazed …
CHENNAI: There have been nine confirmed H1N1 deaths in the state since January , and 20-30 suspected cases of the flu are admitted to hospitals every day, said public health officials. In Chennai, where 105 cases tested positive for the virus since January, the corporation has launched a massive awareness …
El Gedaref — The rate of cholera infection which is claimed by Sudan's government to be acute watery diarrhoea has resumed rising again in El Gedaref after it has seen a drop down over the past period. A health source told Radio Dabanga that the isolation ward at El Gedaref …
Makurdi — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has said that at least 240,000 Nigerian children die every year from diarrhoea related illness, one of the commonest childhood killer diseases. The Office Director of USAID Nigeria, Nancy Lowenthal, said the disturbing figure of children dying from diarrhoea ranked …
'Polluted water from Thumbe dam may cause fatal diseases' Former minister Krishna J Palemar asserted that excess amount of coliform is found in the drinking water supplied from Thumbe dam. “The intake of this water may lead to fatal diseases like diarrhoea and can also have a bad impact on …
Pulmonary and heart diseases claimed 46,811 lives in Karnataka in 2014, the latest year for which statistics on various causes of deaths in the country have been compiled by the Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD), a registry under the Union home ministry. The total number of medically certified …
Water samples show there are at least 15 sites where bacteriological contamination is at a constant high. Hyderabad: Unsafe water and poor sanitation adversely affects the immune system of children, making them vulnerable to diarrhoea and pneumonia, the two leading causes of death of five million children in India. Pneumonia …
Even after three months of efforts, mosquitoes are everywhere in the state and biting the people as usual. VIJAYAWADA: The state government's programme to end mosquito menace “Domalapai Dandayatra” (War on Mosquitoes) has failed to give results. Even after three months of its efforts, mosquitoes are everywhere in the state …
The objective of the study is to describe the frequency and factors associated with antibiotic use in early childhood, and estimate the proportion of diarrhoea and respiratory illnesses episodes treated with antibiotics. Original Source
Pune: Water borne diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and viral hepatitis affected as many as 6,012 people in the state while claiming 30 lives in 2016, against the 5,175 cases and seven deaths recorded last year, states the latest report of the state health department. A sizeable number of children …
Wad Medani — Ten people died of acute watery diarrhoea in a hospital in El Gezira state on Sunday and Monday. The hospital has received dozens of infected cases. A medical source said that the emergency hospital in Wad Medani has received "dozens of people infected with watery diarrhoea during …
Pneumonia has overtaken malaria as the number one killer disease among children under the age of five in Nigeria. A report by the International Vaccines Access Centre (IVAC) revealed that the disease was responsible for 127,000 child deaths in the country last year. This was disclosed on Monday in Abuja …
Despite remarkable progress in the improvement of child survival between 1990 and 2015, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 target of a two-thirds reduction of under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) was not achieved globally. In this paper, we updated our annual estimates of child mortality by cause to 2000–15 to reflect …
