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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76 fresh cases of dengue in Delhi, cholera on the rise
New Delhi: With 76 new cases of dengue reported on Tuesday, the toll has risen to 1933.
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Govt refutes allegations of gastro deaths in KBK
Bhubaneswar: Refuting allegations that poor people in the KBK region died of gastroenteritis by consuming mango kernel and other uneatable stuff in recent months, the Odisha government on Monday claimed that Rs 2 a kg rice scheme was doing well in the area. Allegations that the people are deprived of cheap rice in KBK region, is incorrect.
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Free flow of toxins, a health hazard
KOCHI: The single most health hazard for people living in the suburbs and surrounding villages of Kochi is the disposal of sewage in public places. There is hardly any attempt on the part of the authorities to take action against unauthorised septic tank cleaning agencies. As a result such agencies are mushrooming in the city.
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Hunger politics takes centrestage
BHUBANESWAR: As people keep falling ill or even drop dead in the tribal pockets of undivided Koraput, the politics of mango kernel has come back to haunt the State. Both the government and the Congress have begun quibbling over facts and figures as the epidemic keeps spreading dangerously.
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Orissa calls disaster force to tackle cholera
With number of deaths due to diarrhoea and cholera in Orissa
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Water-borne diseases kill 144 in Orissa
Cholera, diar rhoea and other waterborne diseases in Orissa
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Cholera outbreak: Youth Congress threatens stir
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Pradesh Youth Congress (OPYC) has warned that it will launch a statewide agitation if the State Government failed to check spread of cholera in the backward district of the State. In a statement, OPYC president Pradip Majhi criticised the State Government for its inaction even though 140 persons have died of cholera and more than 500 are affected by the disease in Rayaga
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Cholera bacteria detected in Rayagada district
Bhubaneswar: The 'vibrio cholerae' bacteria was detected in water sources of Southern Rayagada district where at least 34 people have died of diarrhoea in last two months, official sources said on Thursday. Of the 16 water samples examined at the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, six tested positive to vibrio cholerae, said D N Nayak, the team leader of state health human resource m
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Government wakes up after 100 die
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today decided to continue with the scheme to provide financial incentives to the tribal patients to draw them to hospitals. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.
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SPs concern over water borne diseases in Chenab valley
JAMMU, Sept 7: The core committee meeting of Samajwadi Party expressed serious concern over failure of State Government in containing of water borne diseases in the entire region of Chenab valley, here today. The meeting under its president Sheikh Abdul Rehman at party office said that some fresh cases of water borne diseases were still pouring in hospitals.