Visakhapatnam, July 26: Stating that major concerns such as cerebral malaria and filarial were showing a downswing, the district medical and health officer (DMHO), Dr Swarajyalakshmi, said that seasonal diseases such as diarrhoea and amoebiosis were showing an upswing.
ROURKELA: Safe drinking water has become a dream for people of several interior pockets of the coal-rich Hemgir block under Sundargarh district where fear of gastroenteritis outbreak is stalking menacingly. Amid several incidents of diarrhoea in remote villages, the Sundargarh district health administration is on its toes to arrest the spread of water-borne diseases.
As the count of patients affected with diarrhoea touched 133 in Shimla on Friday, the state government issued an advisory across the state against consumption of drinking water from natural sources and checking open defecation, especially around water sources.
MORE than 40 persons have been affected by diarrhoea and vomiting in Dharmathupatti village, near Bodi, in Theni district. Many of them have sought treatment at the government and private hospitals.
METRO Water on Monda said the joint meeting of it officials and Corporation au thorities decided to raise th chlorine level and not the re sidual chlorine to 10 ppm i water distributed through th Metro Water system.
The objective of this study was to evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India.
June 24: The district administration has constituted mandal-level teams to take preventive measures to check the outbreak of seasonal diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, malaria, filarial and jaundice in the monsoon season.
FIVE persons, two at Yervadi in Tirunelveli district and three at Musiri in Tiruchi distrcit, died of of diarrhoea on Thursday.
At T Pettai Union of Musiri taluk, three persons, including a 18-month-old baby, died and more than a hundred villagers took ill following symptoms of diarrhoea in T Pettai Union of Musiri taluk on Thursday.
