Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
About 24,000 people are suffering from Tuberculosis in Balochistan, said Dr Ghulam Mustafa Shah, manager of the TB Control Programme in the province. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, he said the disease was spreading fast in the province and stressed the need for creating awareness about it. Several …
Around 9,000 new tuberculosis (TB) patients are detected annually in Sri Lanka. About 43 per cent of the TB patients are from the Western province and of that around 23 per cent of the cases have been reported from the Colombo district, according to TB and Chest Diseases Control Unit. …
One-third of approximately three million people, who are diagnosed with tuberculosis every year in South-East Asia, cannot pay for their medical treatment, according to the World Health Organisation. According to statistics, around 45‚000 new TB cases are reported every year in Nepal. A total of 35,438 TB patients were registered …
China has more than halved its tuberculosis (TB) prevalence, with rates falling from 170 to 59 per 100,000 population, figures suggest. The Lancet report says the success is due to a huge expansion of a community-based disease control programme. The World Health Organization says other countries could use a similar …
Health: Although the increase in multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) cases could partly be due to good diagnostic services, public health officials find the surge from two cases in January to 27 in December 2013 at Gidakom hospital alarming. Gidakom hospital’s TB ward has 28 beds and, except for …
Global warming will reduce the world's crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, according to a draft UN report, Japanese media said on Friday. The document is the second volume in a long-awaited trilogy by …
People in the country are at high risk of gastroenteritis, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A and E, typhoid, acute respiratory infection (ARI) as well as Blue Baby Syndrome, as safe drinking water is available to only 15% people in urban and 18% in rural areas. The quality of drinking water …
About 80 million people are suffering from Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, like, cardiac diseases, stroke, asthma and diabetes in Pakistan. These views were expressed by Professor of Neurology Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University (AKU), Dr Muhammad Wasay, while speaking at a media briefing on …
The number of children suffering from tuberculosis in Parsa, Bara, and Rautahat districts in mid-Tarai is far greater than that shown by government statistics. A new report said, in a period of nine months, 97 children were found affected by the disease. Programmes launched in Parsa, Bara and Rautahat districts …
Despite all efforts, HIV/AIDS continues to be a word that generates more anxiety than awareness. The tremendous amount of stigma and shame which this disease has instigated in the minds of people and the fear it evokes is an issue which needs to be tackled as soon as possible. With …
The Punjab government has allocated Rs 1.5 billion for the prevention, diagnose and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients, while the government is spending Rs 100,000 on each AIDS patient. This was stated by Punjab Health Director General Dr Zahid Pervaiz while addressing a media consultative meeting on AIDS at a local …
Four thousand HIV infections in a population of 20 million should not be a difficult figure to manage. But experts in Sri Lanka say social customs and strict laws are hindering them from carrying out prevention and awareness campaigns among high-risk groups. Despite impressively low national infection rates, there are …
Overcrowding in hospitals, malnutrition, unhygienic tropical environs heighten problem in India Fungal infections kill close to 1.3 million people globally every year, matching the mortality rate of AIDS, cancer, malaria and tuberculosis, and also cause blindness to 300 million people annually. The magnitude of the problem is particularly serious in …
KARACHI: Eight hundred fresh cases of HIV have been registered in the current year in Sindh, said Dr Mohammad Ahmed Kazi, Provincial Manager for Sindh AIDS Control Programme (SACP) on Wednesday. Addressing a session organised by Pakistan Red Crescent Society, Sindh chapter at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre’s (JPMC) Nursing …
Ten out of the 1,460 people whose blood samples were collected for tests tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS . The blood samples were collected from eight different VDCs and at the Bharatpur Hospital, said Krishnahari Sapkota, Programme Coordinator of AHF, an NGO working in HIV AIDS …
With the drop of mercury at new levels, the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are in grip of infectious diseases including sore throat,cough, influenza and temperature. Local hospitals and clinics are seeing an increase in number of patients suffering with diseases related to dry weather. Most patients, especially children, …
In 2012, the new HIV infections were 338 while the number of patients with AIDS was 103. Some 65 patients died of AIDS last year. With the latest figure, the government recorded people living with HIV stood at 3241 since the first case was detected in 1989. AIDS patients numbered …
That takes the country’s total cases to 346 of which 173 are men and 173 female Health: Unlike the usual trend, four of the 25 new HIV positive cases detected in the last six months in the country are above 50 years. While three of them are men and one …
Bangladesh has had 40 years of exceptional progress in health, with infant mortality down, life expectancy up and good disease control, all despite being one of the world's poorest countries, researchers said on Thursday. Most often in the news for its poverty or natural or manmade disasters, such as a …
WHO has confi rmed an outbreak of at least ten cases of polio in Syria, where vaccination coverage has dramatically decreased during the civil war. Furthermore, wild-type poliovirus 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage and faeces from asymptomatic carriers in Israel since February, 2013. Tourists and travellers could bring …
