The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to file a status report on the outbreak of cholera and diarrhoea diseases in each affected district. A division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice V Gopalgowda and Justice Indrajit Mahanty, while adjudicating over a PIL filed by …
BALANGIR: Diarrhoea is spreading fast in Balangir district with 53 more cases being reported in the last two days taking the total to 132. The condition of seven persons is stated to be critical. With district health officials here unprepared, it is on the verge of taking the shape of …
Bhopal, Aug 23:State Congress spokesman JP Dhanopiya said that BJP government has failed to provide health services and in last one year Swine flue disease has assumed epidemic proportions. He regretted that it was unfortunate that one-and-a-half dozen people have died untimely death and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is …
KOLKATA, 19 AUG: While six out of 25 deer died when they were being relocated to Dobanki camp in the Sunderbans from Parmadan Deer Park in North 24-Parganas, three more were killed following a fight among themselves at the Parmadan Park today. The deer were being taken from Parmadan to …
Containing an epidemic at its origin is the most desirable mitigation. Epidemics have often originated in rural areas, with rural communities among the first affected. Disease dynamics in rural regions have received limited attention, and results of general studies cannot be directly applied since population densities and human mobility factors …
Srinagar: Due to the ongoing turmoil in the Valley, the summer capital is literally stinking with huge piles of garbage scattered along the roadsides at various points in the city. Heaps of garbage have not been cleared for more than a week in certain parts of the city though some …
Karachi is among those densely populated cities of the Third World, where epidemic of diarrhoea has taken a chronic shape due to non-provision of clean drinking water. An official document exclusively made available to Business Recorder revealed that 613 patients of diarrhoea are reported in local, provincial and the federal …
Hyderabad, May 30: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Sunday directed the health officials to prepare village-wise action plan to prevent spread of epidemics during monsoon, which is expected to hit the state this week. Cautioning the officials against the spread of water and vector borne diseases, the Chief …
NEW DELHI: Sixty-two per cent of diabetics in the Capital have inadequately controlled blood sugar levels despite treatment while another 27 per cent have kidney complications. In addition, 65 per cent of the diabetic patients are hypertensive. This has been revealed in a recent study by Aventis Pharma Limited (Sanofi-aventis …
SOLAPUR: An epidemic of cholera mainly in the slums in the eastern part of Solapur city has affected 4,048 people, leaving nine dead in the last one week. Speaking to The Hindu Solapur district Collector Jagadish Patil said,
The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensible, global, evidence based guidelines to help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria. Information is presented on the treatment of: uncomplicated malaria, including disease in special groups (young children, pregnant women, people who are HIV-positive, travellers from non-malaria endemic …
A bill to provide for protection and fulfillment of rights in relation to health and well-being, health equity and justice, including those related to all the underlying departments of health as well as health care and for achieving the goal of health for all and for matters connected therewith or …
ROING, Dec 3: An outbreak of some common diseases of cattle has been reported in Anpum, Bizari and Paglam areas under Dambuk sub division of Lower Dibang Valley district since a week. Reacting promptly, the district administration directed the Veterinary department to take stock of the situation. Official sources today …
The report is the second in a series that tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and the impact of the interventions that are being implemented to stop it. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the evidence base for protecting people from the harms of second-hand tobacco smoke through …
Geneva: Almost 60 million people have been infected by HIV and 25 million people killed by causes related to the virus since the epidemic started, according to new data published by UNAIDS on Tuesday. While prevention programmes have helped to cut infection tes by 17% over the past eight years, …
Oct. 26: The floods that swamped Kurnool last month dumped thousands of tonnes of sand and sludge in streets, drains and lakhs of buildings. Since the city was submerged for several days, the water foodgrain, clothes and anything that was degradable. Every house has generated an estimated 3-5 tonnes of …
Oct. 25: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Sunday asked officials to launch a special drive to bring epidemics under control. According to a Chief Minister