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 a move to expand the vaccine coverage across the country, health ministry plans to introduce pneumonia vaccine in five states under its universal immunization programme from next year. The ministry has approved the launch of the vaccine in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh under the …
Although widely accepted as being one of the most important public health advances of the past hundred years, the contribution that improving sanitation coverage can make to child health is still unclear, especially since the publication of two large studies of sanitation in India which found no effect on child …
Detailed spatial understanding of levels and trends in under-5 mortality is needed to improve the targeting of interventions to the areas of highest need, and to understand the sources of variation in mortality. To improve this understanding, we analysed local-level information on child mortality across sub-Saharan Africa between 1980–2010. Open …
An acute shortage of water has hit three major towns in Kirinyaga County, raising fears of disease. Kerugoya, Kutus and Ngurubani residents said they have to fetch cooking and drinking water from the contaminated Thiba and Rwamuthambi rivers. They said an outbreak of typhoid, cholera and diarrhoea was likely in …
KARACHI: Despite being the largest public sector hospital in the city and among the few that have an incinerator, the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JMPC) at present doesn’t have a proper system to dispose of its medical waste, a major potential threat to the safety of its staff, patients as …
American design student Virginia Gardiner did not expect to end up finding her muse in a toilet, or find power and profit out of poo. She also did not expect to find herself and the waterless toilet she designed for wasteful westerners (originally it was embraced by posh festivalgoers), on …
The Arab uprising in 2010 and subsequent wars in the eastern Mediterranean region have had serious detrimental effects on the health and life expectancy of the people living in many of the 22 countries in the region [1], according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease …
The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Since our Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), the region has faced …
The New Zealand government launched an inquiry on Thursday into the contamination of a regional water supply that has left thousands of people sick with vomiting and diarrhoea. The outbreak of campylobacter bacteria, a form of gastroenteritis, has affected around 3,000 people, officials said. About half of those are in …
India is home to the world's largest number of stunted children due to a lack of toilets, dirty water and poor hygiene, according to a new study published on Tuesday. Despite high economic growth in recent years, India has more stunted children than Nigeria, Pakistan, China and the Republic of …
With cholera outbreak reported in Rayagada district, the Health Department on Monday started a mapping of the endemic villages in Kalyansinghpur and Kashipur blocks where local tribal youths would be engaged to step up IEC activities to contain the menace. The IEC activities would be carried out in tribal dialects …
India’s ambitious sanitation drive has created a health hazard, with many toilets built cheek by jowl with family water supplies June in Odisha state’s Puri district, and the mercury is hitting 39C. The monsoon is still days away but, when it comes, the Mahanadi river could flood low-lying villages, as …
The objective of the study was to extend a nation-wide rotavirus surveillance network in India, and to generate geographically representative data on rotaviral disease burden and prevalent strains. Original Source
Climate change is likely to kill 250,000 more people each year by 2030, latest assessment by the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows. Most of these deaths will be caused from malaria, diarrhoeal disease, heat stress and malnutrition. India, which already has a high burden of these diseases, is expected to …
According to the report, every year, at least 6,688 people die due to tuberculosis and 1,18,093 suffer from diarrhoea. Dengue cases have gone up eight times and cholera cases seven times in the past five years, a white paper released by the Praja Foundation on Thursday revealed. It further shows …
AT least three persons, including two women, died of diarrhoea while 26 persons were affected in a remote village under Oupada block of Balasore district on Thursday. Though the reason behind the sudden outbreak is yet to be known, officials say consumption of contaminated water and jungle mushroom might have …
In view of the increased mortality of children due to diarrhoea, the Health Department shall be observing Intensive Diarrhoea Control Fortnight in Jalandhar district from July 11 to 30. During the fortnight, 2,58,772 children up to the age of five shall be provided zinc tablets and ORS packets to fight …
Increase in cases of diarrhoea and related symptoms in district The district medical authorities have urged the public and food vendors to take precautionary measures in view of increase in the number of cases of diarrhoea and related diseases. An official press release issued by the District Medical Office here …
Congenital sodium diarrhoea (CSD) refers to a form of secretory diarrhoea with intrauterine onset and high faecal losses of sodium without congenital malformations. The molecular basis for CSD remains unknown. We clinically characterised a cohort of infants with CSD and set out to identify disease-causing mutations by genome-wide genetic testing. …
This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of Ethiopia. Using primary household survey data and microbiological water test for Escherichia coli, use various estimation methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among …
