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 …
Oct. 25: Hyderabad district has 125 dengue cases, 62 of them confirmed, with one death. In Ranga Reddy district, 28 cases of dengue have been reported. Though many suspected cases of chikungunya have also been reported, only one has been confirmed in Hyderabad. On Saturday, blood samples of all villagers …
Oct. 12: The panchayat raj minister, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana, asked medical and health officials, government doctors, members of district wing of Indian Medical Association and municipal commissioners to strictly implement an integrated health action plan to combat epidemics and viral fevers effectively in the district. He was reviewing on Monday …
The Andhra Pradesh government faces its toughest task yet since the floods as it grapples with threats of outbreak of post-flood epidemics. Krishna, Kurnool, Guntur, Kadapa and Mahabubnagar districts, which were ravaged by the floods and remained underwater for six days, now face the possibility of the outbreak of cholera, …
Apart from the large scale destruction, the rains have brought with them the fear of an epidemic outbreak. The 60 slums in the Bijapur city have already reported cases of H1N1 and dengue, and now the number of people suffering from fever, cold, cough, vomiting is steadily increasing. While the …
BHAWANIPATNA: Tribals are more prone to infectious diseases due to malnutrition. An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) bulletin said this in October 2003. In 2009 too this holds good in some of the tribal pockets of Kalahandi which are witnessing gastroenteritis and malaria in epidemic proportions. A senior doctor …
The dengue epidemic which hit Sri Lanka last January is now under control and the death rate is zero. The number of dengue cases reported during the 36th week is only 49, the latest statistics of the Epidemiology Unit of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry says. According to the statistics …
With the detection of 14 new cases on Wednesday, the total number of Swine Flu inflicted persons in the country rose to 261, of them one has died. "Fourteen more cases have been detected today as we have tested few samples of suspected swine flu cases collecting from different hospitals …
Thomas Chandy The media storm and the government action on the A(H1N1) flu are warranted, but should not steps to meet infant mortality and malnutrition become national priorities, too? Since August 4, 2009, when the death of a girl from the A(H1N1) flu was reported in Pune, the insatiable media …
Almost a month after the outbreak of gastroenteritis in some villages of backward Kalahandi district, claiming 38 lives so far, the Orissa government on Monday sent a team of doctors to the affected villages. The state government at the same time rejected that the outbreak had assumed epidemic proportions. The …
BARABANKI: The turbulent Ghaghra is finally flowing below the danger mark after causing havoc in villages on its bank. About a hundred villages falling under Fatehpur, Ramnagar and Sirauli Gauspur tehsil of the district were badly affected by recent floods caused by discharge of water from Kali and other rivers …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has invoked the 102-year old Epidemic Diseases Control Act, 1907, to fight swine flu. Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said that with this, the district authorities had been given more powers to take necessary steps to tackle the situation.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat is now the fourth state in the country to invoke the 102-year-old Epidemic Disease Control Act, giving more teeth to the health administration to tackle the swine flu menace. Other states which have already invoked the Act are Maharashtra, Delhi and Haryana. Health and family welfare minister Jay …
The latest fad to catch the fancy of the young adult population in major cities is hookah bars. Peer pressure and work related stress has even increased use of tobacco among young women in cities. Dispelling some of the common misconceptions about the different forms of tobacco use, health experts …
MUMBAI: While hundreds visited Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli on Thursday to get themselves tested for H1N1, at least a score were brought to the same hospital in seriously ill condition. The reason for their plight wasn't the swine flu, but the round-the-year pestilence: malaria. "We should be talking about malaria …
Pune, Aug. 4 The Maharashtra Government has invoked the Epidemic Control Act in Pune and Satara districts to check the spread of the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu, which claimed its first victim in India, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, here on Monday.
Will Empower State Officials To Undertake Stringent Action A day after the death of a 14-year-old schoolgirl of swine flu in neighbouring Pune, the Maharashtra government has invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, in Pune and Satara districts to empower collectors to take stringent action to prevent the spread of …
India is yet to have an intelligence agency for diseases, despite facing epidemics every year Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 2, 2009, 0:45 IST A public health ministry acts as an intelligence agency for diseases. However, India is yet to have such a body, despite facing epidemics every year. …
New Delhi: A big challenge for the state health department during Commonwealth Games 2010 will be to ensure there is no outbreak of an epidemic of dengue and other vector-borne diseases. Instead of drawing up a combined action plan, the Delhi government and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) are busy …
