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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Total breakdown of health services in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Those who survive the bullets in Bastar, could die of ordinary disease, as the people of Bijapur district discovered, when it took 24 hours for medical help to arrive in seven interior villages gripped by a mysterious diarrhoea like epidemic. By then, 13 people had died, including eight women and three children.
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Cholera outbreak at Aynavaram
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS FIFTEEN days ago, Kamala was one of the first women at Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Aynavaram, to be diagnosed with cholera. Since then, 25 more cases of cholera have been reported from three streets in Aynavaram alone. These reports came in, despite Mayor M.Subramanian
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40 percent deaths are caused by water-borne diseases
ISLAMABAD (June 05 2010): Quoting the National Conservation Strategy (NCS), Economic Survey of Pakistan 2009-10 has revealed that almost 40 percent of deaths in Pakistan were caused by water borne diseases.
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Emerging trends in the etiology of enteric pathogens as evidenced from an active surveillance of hospitalized diarrhoeal patients in Kolkata, India
This study was conducted to determine the etiology of diarrhoea in a hospital setting in Kolkata. Active surveillance was conducted for 2 years on two random days per week by enrolling every fifth diarrhoeal
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Now diarrhoea outbreak in Attur, 100 hospitalised
AFTER Dindigul and Theni, now several cases of diarrhoea have been reported for a second time within two weeks near Attur in Salem district. Nearly 100 people, including children, have been suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting since Tuesday at Sadhasivapuram near Attur.
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Civic body, hospitals gear up to fight dengue, malaria, gastroentritis
Pune With the city having buckled under a volley of diseases during the last monsoon, particularly swine flu, the civic authorities are keeping their fingers crossed.
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28 persons hospitalised with symptoms of gastroenteritis
ATTUR: Twenty-eight people of Sadasivapuram village near here have been admitted to hospitals complaining of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. While eight of them have been admitted to the intensive care unit of Attur Government Head Quarters Hospital, the rest are in nearby Primary Health Centres.
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Urban area disadvantage and under-5 mortality in Nigeria: The effect of rapid urbanization
Living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas is associated with increased childhood mortality. As city living becomes the predominant social context in low- and middle-income countries, the resulting rapid urbanization
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Climate change: a creeping catastrophe
The possible links between climate change and health form one of the most controversial topics of our time. In this interview, Dr Colin Summerhayes talks about how the world
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Diarrhoea grips Jagatsinghpur villages
PARADIP: A large number of villagers in Erasama and Balikuda have been affected by diarrhoea after consuming contaminated water. Worse, there are no proper medical facilities in the areas to cater to all the affected villagers.