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 …
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – are the biggest cause of death worldwide. More than 36 million die annually from NCDs (63% of global deaths), including 14 million people who die too young before the age of 70. More than 90% of …
Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is ready to support an opposition proposal to increase a planned tax on junk food included in the government's fiscal reform, the PRI's leader in the Senate said on Wednesday. Last week, the lower house of Congress approved President Enrique Pena Nieto's fiscal reform, …
Asia-Pacific countries face serious challenges from ‘lifestyle’ diseases and ageing populations even as they overcome more traditional illnesses, the World Health Organisation’s regional director said Monday. Western Pacific WHO director Shin Young-soo said such ailments, often arising from a change in diets and less exercise, were sharply rising in Asian …
Referring to the report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Japanese researchers and a number of physicians told that people of Bangladesh are living in the risks of non-communicable diseases such as cardiac arrest, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Out of the total, 61 per cent people die of such diseases …
Diabetes may consume $22 billion, or more than half of China’s annual health budget, if all those afflicted with the condition get routine, state-funded care. The disease is putting an “overwhelming burden” on the country, according to the International Diabetes Federation, which says China spent $17 billion, or about $194 …
Household air pollution (HAP) is a major contributor to lower respiratory tract infections in children and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults, and remains a neglected issue, according to World Health Organisation. “Reduction in HAP will be added as the tenth target in the global action plan for prevention and …
Non-communicable diseases take increasing toll in South Asia as the region continues to grapple with diseases of poverty, said a World Bank press release here on Wednesday, reports BSS Disease burden from most communicable, newborn, nutritional, and maternal diseases declined while ischemic heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, and road injuries …
Sri Lankans spend Rs. 210 million a day on smoking while 54 Lankans die daily from smoke related diseases, a Health Ministry spokesman said. Annually 20,000 Sri Lankans die from smoking and state hospitals spend Rs. 12 billion to treat persons falling sick due to smoking, the spokesman said. He …
The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy—South Asia Regional Edition presents key changes in the leading causes of premature mortality and disability in South Asia and explores intraregional differences in diseases, injuries, and risk factors. The publication shows that non-communicable diseases are increasingly causing more premature mortality and …
The Treasury will allocate Rs. 150 billion for the health budget in 2014, a Health Ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said a special discussion was held between Finance Ministry Secretary Dr. P.B.Jayasundara and Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena last week in connection with the health budget 2014. Health Ministry were also …
Finance and Planning Ministry Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera and World Bank IDA Country Director for Sri Lanka and Maldives Francoise Michele Clottes signing the SHSDP Financial Agreement. Sri Lanka reports better health indicators than most developing countries and many lower middle-income nations. The remarkable achievements are based on our health …
Recognizing Sri Lanka's need to meet the public health demands and challenges and government's efforts to improve health sector, the World Bank has granted a US$ 200 million loan to support the country's overall health sector development. The World Bank loan will provide partial support to Sri Lanka's five-year Second …
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have commonly been known as rich people's disease, but a recent study in the state reveals how the NCD caseload in the state is more in rural pockets of Warangal, East Godavari, Guntur, Krishna and Nellore. Interestingly there is also a regional variation in the NCD cases. …
Preliminary findings of the first ever nationwide study undertaken on childhood obesity in urban areas of Bangladesh by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) reveal that 10 per cent of children aged 5 to 18 years of age are overweight, while 4.0 per cent are obese, said a …
Ten out of every 100 children, aged 5-18 living in Bangladesh’s urban areas, are overweight while 4 per cent obese, says a new study. It indicates that there is a double burden of both under-nutrition (30pc) and over-nutrition (14pc) for the country. A sharp decrease in the prevalence of underweight …
Diabetes has become one of the leading public health issues in the country. The Government of India has a strong commitment to tackle this challenge through the National Program on Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) programme. A strong need was being felt to understand …
The action plan provides a road map and a menu of policy options for all Member States and other stakeholders, to take coordinated and coherent action, at all levels, local to global, to attain the nine voluntary global targets, including that of a 25% relative reduction in premature mortality from …
The plan sets important new directions for mental health including a central role for provision of community based care and a greater emphasis on human rights. It introduces the notion of recovery, moving away from a pure medical model, and addresses income generation and education opportunities, housing and social services …
To help urban poor go to health facilities after working hours, urban primary health centres, planned under the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), will function from noon to 8 p.m. Out-patient departments at standard health facilities worked only in the morning; when patients had to go to work, visiting a …
Non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders, and injuries have become the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Pakistan. Tobacco use and hypertension are the leading attributable risk factors for deaths due to cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and respiratory diseases. Pakistan has the sixth highest …
