The makeshift camps hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs) of flood-affected areas of Thatta and Badin-the two hardest hit districts in the recently floods-have now been hit by the waterborne
An international study has come up with compelling evidence that vitamin A supplements is associated with large reductions in mortality, morbidity and vision problems, including night blindness, in
A cholera pandemic that has swept poor countries in three waves over nearly four decades has been traced to a bacterial strain that first emerged in Bangladesh, scientists reported on Wednesday.
About 50 people were hospitalised late on Tuesday night after they fell unconscious after drinking highly contaminated water supplied by the town`s water supply agency.
At least 922 dengue patients haveso far been admitted to different private and public hospitals in the capitalwith an indication of rise in number in comparison to the same time of lastyear when th
Four persons of a single village have died due to diarrhea and viral fever spread since last one month in Sirdibas VDC in north Gorkha. Over a 100 others are taken ill.
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced
Environment and Human Health gives a comprehensive review of the related literature in order to aid understanding of the (missing) link between the environment and health. Given the exhaustive literature on the subject the paper focuses on the water‐related and land‐related diseases namely in the fast growing and poor countries.
The World Health Organisation has issued guidelines to health department to prevent spread of diarrhoea among people in the seven affected districts of the province.
