2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Waterborne diseases
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Household water treatment affordable
Experts and field workers have stressed promotion of household water treatment methods to evade any health crisis among the masses, especially in the flood-hit areas. The participants at the second meeting of household water treatment (HWT) working group at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) on Tuesday decided to promote cost-effective and easily practicable water treatment methods
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Antibiotics given by quacks poses health risks: Study
A good number of unqualified village doctors practicing allopathy have been prescribing antibiotics for quick recovery from various infections, putting health of rural patients at high risk, an ICDDR, B study reveals. The study, still going on since the last three years, says the village doctors, almost 95 percent of rural healthcare professionals, are treating common cold, fever, pneumonia and
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Diarrhoea toll reaches nine in Malkangiri
MALKANGIRI: Diarrhoea has claimed nine lives since last month in Podia panchayat here.
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Surveillance on outbreak of waterborne diseases
Village nurses and sanitary inspectors assigned to monitor Health department launches a poster campaign to sensitise people to preventive measures Hospitals told to report cases of A (H1N1) flu, dengue, malaria and filariasis to health officials TIRUCHI: The Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has launched a surveillance to monitor incidence of water borne and other communi
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More diarrhoea cases reported
Rajahmundry, Sept.
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Diarrhoea spreads to Balangir, 132 affected
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.
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Cong seeks Naveens visit to cholera-hit areas
Bhubaneswar: Holding the Odisha government responsible for the spread of cholera in the southern region, the State Congress on Tuesday demanded chief minister Naveen Patnaik's visit to the worst-hit Rayagada district and apologize for failing to keep his promises. Cholera is spreading in districts like Rayagada, Koraput and Nabarangpur due to collapse of health services, public distribution sys
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Cholera toll mounts to 68 in Rayagada
Rayagada: Health minister Prasanna Acharya on Tuesday visited the cholera-affected pockets in Rayagada district even as two more deaths were reported from Kalyansinghpur village under Kashipur block taking the toll at 68. The minister, accompanied by health secretary Anu Garg, visited a few cholera-hit villages and supervised the emergency relief operations there. Later, he reviewed the heal
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Lack of hospitals aids spread of diarrhoea
RAYAGADA/MALKANGIRI: Even as Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Secretary Anu Garg accompanied by the Southern Division RDC CS Kumar and Rayagada Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale visited the worst-affected Lakapai village under Kalyansinghpur block this afternoon, the situation is far from better. There is no primary health centre neither in the village nor in Serigumma panchayat limits forci
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100 tribals down with diarrhoea
Warangal, Sept. 14: About 100 tribals people fell ill after drinking contaminated water in Kommarigudem thanda in Wardhanapet mandal on Tuesday. While 50 people were treated at Wardhanapet civil hospital, including 25 who have been given intravenous liquid, the rest were treated at a special medical camp at Inovolu primary health centre. District medical and health officer V.