The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation recalls vaccine batch after baby dies MUMBAI: Civic officials are scrambling for answers after three-month-old Megha Devkari died on Thursday, hours after she was administered an oral polio vaccine and two injections for Hepatitis-B and DTP. The BMC conducted a health check on the eight children who, …
Ella Foundation has won a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This Grant will help Ella Foundation pursue efforts to checkmate the polio virus during and after the eradication of polio. The aim is to have a live polio vaccine, which …
Cholera, the most dreadful of all diarrhoeal diseases, is an acute intestinal infection, caused by Vibrio cholerae, which afflicts 3 to 5 million of people and causes 0.1 million deaths every year . Cholera outbreaks have been infrequently reported from developed countries and often reported from various parts of developing, …
Here we report a retrospective study, analyzing the JE (Japanese encephalitis) positivity among the acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) cases referred from tertiary care centers in Chennai - Government General Hospitals, Institute of Child Health, Stanley Medical College & Hospital, other Government Hospitals and private institutions during a period of three …
The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notices to the Punjab government for May 24 on a petition pleading to declare that oral polio vaccine (OPV) was not properly provided to children, according to international standards and directions for a judicial inquiry against responsible authorities. Justice Umar Ata Bandial issued …
India is third in egg production and fourth in chicken output Vice Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) Dr. R. Prabakaran said that veterinarians have played a major role in placing India atop the world in milk production, third in egg production and fourth in …
New Delhi: The country’s first integrated vaccine centre (IVC) — a single site that will produce six important vaccines administered to Indian children — has crossed the final hurdle. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the Union health ministry’s Rs 594-crore park proposal. Spread over 100 …
The residents of 15 villages have boycotted the polio vaccination to protest alleged lack of proper nutrition and other facilities to the children by the state-run Anganwadi Centres in Munger district, official sources said on Wednesday. Parents did not allow health workers to vaccinate their wards during the ongoing polio …
The civic hospitals in the city are running out of anti-rabies vaccines for the past five days due to the delay in putting the purchase order by the municipal administration. Raising the issue at the general body meeting of the BMC on Monday, BJP corporator Vinod Shelar accused the civic …
“Nearly 9.7 million children in the South-East Asian region still do not get the most basic of vaccines like the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine. Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Growing opportunities through new funding as well as research and development initiatives should not go …
Agartala: Timely vaccination of birds and animals, access to standard laboratories and maintaining bio-security are among the measures required to curb the sporadic outbreak of bird flu in India’s northeast, says a team of international and Indian experts touring the region. Experts of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and …
Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Sector Polio Vaccination and focal person on Polio Eradition, has said the three-day polio vaccination expedition campaign will be started from Monday. Talking to Radio Pakistan, she said polio teams will go house to house to administer polio drops …
Haiti is all set to start vaccinating one lakh people with an oral cholera vaccine “Sahchol” developed by the Hyderabad-based Shantha Biotechnics. According to a news report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the first phase of the campaign will be targeting 50,000 people living in Port-au-Prince and will be …
CHENNAI: On the occasion of National Immunisation Day on Sunday, over 170 million children were vaccinated against polio in vaccination booths set up across the country. This has been followed by 5 days of door-to-door immunisation activity. Though the NID is a Government of India initiative, in Chennai groups like …
New Delhi: The government on Monday passed a decision on Monday to roll out the five in one pentavalent vaccine in six new states. Children in Gujarat, Karnataka, Haryana,Goa, J&K; and Pondicherry will soon be protected by the pentavalent vaccine. The Union health ministry passed the at the meeting of …
A total of 4.48 lakh children under the age of five under the old limits of the Chennai Corporation were covered in the second phase of pulse polio vaccination held here on Sunday. Over 4,500 staff and volunteers participated in the drive. A total of 4,95,512 children below the age …
LUCKNOW: State minister for health and family welfare Ahmad Hasan wants government health facilities in the district to be developed as a model for other districts. Speaking to officers after inaugurating the polio week on Sunday, he said, "Health officials in Lucknow should make efforts to make it a model …
LUCKNOW: The district health administration will hold the Pulse Polio Immunisation Day on Sunday (April 15). While the administration has targeted about six lakh children (up to five years) in the district under the drive, special focus would be on rural areas. Chief medical officer, Varanasi Dr Gyan Prakash said …
A year and a half after cholera first struck Haiti, a tiny portion of the population on Thursday began getting vaccinated against the waterborne disease that has infected more than 530,000 Haitians and killed more than 7,040. Organizers of the vaccination campaign, who have been pushing to do this since …
The Union Health Ministry’s plan to upgrade the Baccillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Laboratory in Guindy in Tamil Nadu has hit a wall with the State Government yet to give its nod for acquiring land for the unit. The vaccine unit among two others — Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli …
