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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Diarrhoea outbreak: one dead, 37 hospitalised in theni
THE death of Pavithra, a 10year-old girl, who was under treatment for diarrhoea at the Uthamapalayam Government Hospital, on Wednesday has caused panic among Theni residents. A number of people with symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting from Uthamapalayam, Cumbum and Bodi are being treated in government and private hospitals.
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Metrowater blamed for jaundice cases
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS We are boiling drinking water now, following the advice of Corporation officials. But, if they had warned us in time, may be the number of cases could have been reduced
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Typhoid cases on the rise, health dept unaware
Nearly ten cases of typhoid have been reported from Sector 2 in the last ten days. While the Health department has expressed ignorance, residents claim that contaminated water being supplied to the area is the cause of the disease outbreak.
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Suspected diarrhoeal deaths in southern dists
THREE persons from Athupatti village in Vedasandur block of Dindigul died of diarrhoea on Wednesday. Irked by this villagers resorted to a picketing agitation, charging the authorities that the deceased could have been saved if there was proper road facilities to the village.
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Check water-borne diseases: Meena
Keeping in view the onset of monsoon by the end of this month or the beginning of June, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Bharat Lal Meena issued guidelines to the health department officials to check water-borne or vector-borne diseases.
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Children feel the heat as viral diarrhoea hits city
Pune Rising temperatures and water shortage lead to increase in cases; paediatricians advise use of rotavirus vaccine
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Summer diseases take a toll on kids
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS COME summer and diarrhoea, chicken pox, measles and skin allergies take the fun out of the holidays that children look forward to all year. City doctors have reported a surge in the number of such diseases this season.
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Infant Mortality: Rotarians seek NGOs help
Mandi Ahmedgarh: Prem Kumar Aggarwal, district governor, Rotary International (District 3090), has called upon all NGOs to launch a coordinated move to save infants and children who were dying due to inadequate health facilities, water-borne diseases, starvation and illiteracy. He also highlighted the need for the water management and environment preservation for the future generations.
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Germs pollute citys water
Hyderabad, April 26: Hyderabadis are in danger of being affected by waterborne diseases as more areas in the twin cities are receiving contaminated water, thanks to the apathy of the water board.
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Contaminated water responsible for Chattarpur gastro outbreak, says MCD
Newsline found another possible cause: dirt. Kharak Raveda village has no sewage network, its streets are full of cowdung, sewage and puddles; illegal supply lines are drawn from tubewells