PURI/NABARANGPUR: The scourge of diarrhoea is back claiming three persons each in coastal Puri and predominantly tribal Nabarangpur districts. Many more are fighting for lives.
Three persons died today and five were battling for lives in Puri infectious diseases hospital (IDH) after bouts of diarrhoea, while another 55 are undergoing treatment there.
DIBRUGARH, Dec 15: Julie Moran (12) died while 13 others of Ashadeep Residential Bridge Course centre under Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan were taken ill at North Jaloni LP School in Duliajan today. Moran, daughter of Indeswar Moran of Kakopathar in Doomdooma, is a student of the fifth standard and was declared brought dead in the OIL Hospital at Duliajan.
Globally, around 2.4 million deaths (4.2% of all deaths) could be prevented annually if everyone practised appropriate hygiene and had good, reliable sanitation and drinking water. These deaths are mostly of children in developing countries from diarrhoea and subsequent malnutrition, and from other diseases attributable to malnutrition.
A safe, reliable, affordable, and easily accessible water supply is essential for good health. Yet, for several decades, about a billion people in developing countries have not had a safe and sustainable water supply.
With as many as 21 deaths occurring due to an outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases, including cholera, in a cluster of tea estates in Sonitpur district over two weeks, the Assam government on Monday decided to file cases against three tea estates for gross negligence of healthcare of labourers.
The importance of an uncontaminated water supply and proper sanitation in controlling enteric infections, as well as contributing to poverty eradication, has been recognized by the international community.
Raipur: A cholera outbreak may have gone undetected in South Bastar this monsoon. Since June, a steady stream of deaths have been reported in the Maoist-hit districts of Bijapur and Dantewada.
With a number of migrant labourers admitted in hospital with symptoms of diarrhoea, there is panic among workers at the grain market in Moga.
Dr B S Goyal, who is posted at the Moga Civil Hospital, said the patients brought there were suffering from acute diarrhoea, primarily due to consumption of unclean water.
Labourers blamed it on the poor sanitary conditions at the grain market, one of
