GUWAHATI: With Guwahati being the door to Northeast India and hundreds of people from outside the State entering the city each day, there is a huge danger of contacting the swine flu virus that has already killed many people in various parts of the country.

The State Health department has taken all out measures to quell fears of a swine flu outbreak in the State by taking all possible precautionary measures to fight it’s outbreak in Assam.

Fifty-nine per cent of water samples collected from rural areas in Islamabad are found unsafe for drinking and situation is even worse in Rawalpindi, with 83 per cent of the samples collected from

“Maternal and child health indicate the robustness of our health sector”

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accorded due appreciation to the fact that the country’s under-five mortality rate has declined much faster than the global average, but agreed that the challenge was to bring down neonatal mortality. Speaking at the inauguration of a national summit ‘Call to Action — Child Survival and Development,’ Mr. Azad noted with pride that there was a quantum jump in the annual rate of decline in the recent past. Also, the decline in child deaths in rural areas and in the States with weak health indicators was both sharp and steady.

Almost 40 per cent glaciers in Afghanistan have been reduced in 40 years, whereas the glaciers supplying water to Ravi, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum Rivers are thinning,” said Dr Chaudary Inayatullah, C

PMC Analysed 35 Child Deaths, Below One Year, Between May 2012 And January 2013

Pune: Low birth weight, a common cause of infant death in rural areas, is also the leading factor linked with infants’ death in Pune, states the latest child death audit report of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). What is more worrying is that preventable diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and jaundice continue to cause child deaths in the city.

More than 420,000 children under the age of five years die every year in the country due to both external and internal factors.

The disease burden saw 14 per cent increase to 31,536 cases per district during October from September’s 27,587 cases.

Six elderly patients have died of gastroenteritis following a norovirus outbreak at a hospital in Japan's Miyazaki prefecture, a media report said.