Report of the Committee formed by the government of Uttar Pradesh in Original Application No. 116 of 2014 in the matter of Meera Shukla Vs MC, Gorakhpur & Others. In compliance with the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Principal Bench, New Delhi, the government of Uttar Pradesh constituted …
New Delhi: In what has sent alarm bells ringing in the administration, 20% of the blood samples taken from pigs across the city have tested positive for Japanese encephalitis, indicating that the disease is likely to spread in Delhi. Japanese encephalitis, which is endemic to eastern UP and Bihar where …
The infected pigs that were responsible for the first-ever Japanese Encephalitis cases in the city, are untraceable and the Delhi government is yet to launch a dri-ve to collect blood samples of 500 pigs from slaughter houses even two weeks after it was announced. According to a senior Municipal Corporation …
India’s dependence on a Chinese firm for its supply of the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine could soon be over. Austrian biotech firm Intercell AG and Hyderabadbased Biological Evans have announced that their vaccine to treat JE has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India. The vaccine Jeev is expected …
The disease has claimed 861 lives so far with 470 in U.P. alone Concerned over the high mortality and morbidity because of Japanese encephalitis (JE) and acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), the Group of Ministers (GoM) held its first meeting here on Monday to discuss short, medium and long-term measures needed …
With 135 districts across 17 states affected and 861 people dead till November 4, the Japanese Encephalitis epidemic has crossed last year’s figures. This year there were 6,297 reported cases against 5,149 in 2010 and 677 deaths. Approximately, 70-75 per cent of these have been reported from Uttar Pradesh, with …
The Group of Ministers (GoM), set up to work out an action plan to deal with the deadly Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) that have claimed over 850 lives so far this year across the country, met for the first time on Monday but could not reach any …
Absence of preventive measures and affordable and accessible health care leads to nearly 500 encephalitis deaths in Uttar Pradesh. IT is a strange paradox. In a country that aspires to be a superpower and boasts of rapid economic growth, 488 children died in a State, Uttar Pradesh, from encephalitis alone …
The Patna High Court has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on measures taken to treat and control encephalitis cases, especially in Magadh region. The government has to file its reply within two weeks. Since August, of the 386 children admitted at ANMMCH, 83 died — the …
Bihar is in the grip of yet another lethal outbreak of viral encephalitis, which has claimed the lives of 82 children in the Magadh division so far. The latest death was reported on Sunday. The division's only government hospital, the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College Hospital, has been swamped with …
Even as India’s largest drug maker, Ranbaxy, is confident of launching its first “new drug” by January 2012 to combat malaria in the country, the global euphoria the potential drug had generated in the initial stages of its research seems missing. Health experts attribute this to the absence of international …
Criticised for not doing enough to tackle the spread of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, where hundreds of children die or are disabled every year, the Centre has now approved the setting up of dedicated wards in seven hospitals in the …
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, who also holds the Drinking Water and Sanitation portfolio, will work in concert with the Union Health Ministry and prepare an action plan to subdue the menace of Japanese Encephalitis raging in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Ramesh noted that encephalitis continued …
New Delhi: Two more people have been confirmed positive for Japanese Encephalitis in the city, taking the total number of patients suffering from the mosquito-borne disease to 14. According to Dr V K Monga, the MCD health committee chairman, they have not found the source of the infection yet. “The …
In Gorakhpur, thousands have become a burden on their poor families Lack of rehabilitation facilities for thousands of children, disabled here after a Japanese encephalitis attack, has made life a burden for them. Already reeling under acute poverty, these children are now an economic burden on their families. The monthly …
Medical facilities have collapsed as encephalitis epidemic continues to rage Even as the rest of India recovers from its Diwali celebrations, residents of Poorvanchal have been marking a grim time that descends on the eastern Uttar Pradesh region each year: a time local people call the season of death. Ever …
BURDWAN/KOLKATA, 28 OCT: Close on the heels of the uproar over crib deaths at a Kolkata Hospital, the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital (BMCH) recorded deaths of 12 newborns in 24 hours. The director of medical education, Dr Susanta Banerjee, and the state health commissioner, Mr Dilip Ghosh, rushed to …
DIBRUGARH: The State Government has undertaken a mass campaign for Japanese Encephalitis Immunization in Sivasagar district, as a pilot project from Oct 9 this year. This programme would continue up to Oct 31 at various venues as per plan. Regional Medical Research Centre, NE Region, Dibrugarh, under the Indian Council …
The encephalitis dance of death in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’s bordering districts looks set to cross all previous records this year. With 2-3 weeks still left in the ‘season’, the country-wide death toll is nearing the 1,000-mark, of which UP itself has a staggering toll of nearly 500. More …
With 10 more persons succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll in the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has climbed to 488 this year, health officials said on Tuesday. Ten persons suffering from the disease died in various hospitals in the region in the last four days, they said. Over …
With over 400 children dying of Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh so far this year, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has suggested the setting up a group of ministers (GoM) to deal with the dreaded disease that claims hundreds of young lives every year. After holding …
