May 10: Two more people from Bholakpur succumbed to acute diarrhoea and vomiting on Sunday taking the death toll to 12 while 67 fresh cases were reported from new areas.
Andalamma was admitted on May 3 to the Fever Hospital and was later shifted to Osmania Hospital. Ghouse Pasha had been undergoing treatment at the Osmania Hospital from the start.
Hyderabad, May 10: Even as Gandhi and Fever Hospitals in the city are being thronged by victims of diarrhoea and cholera, the minister for health, Mr S. Chandrasekhar, on Sunday, played down the cholera outbreak in the city and blamed the media for triggering panic among people.
May 10: Even as the city awaited the confirmatory tests on the presence of cholera in the city, it transpired that state health officials have flouted every rule in the book in treating cholera patients, and victims.
May 7: Nearly 100 fresh cases, mostly children suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, were reported at various hospitals in the city on Thursday while some of the patients were refusing to leave the hospital despite being given the discharge slip. The principal secretary for health, Mr L.V. Subramaniam said:
President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Pakistan is currently spending as low as 15 dollars per capita per year on health from both domestic public and private sources and from international development assistance, says a new study published by the Asian Development Bank.
NUAPADA: Thirteen buffaloes and over 30 goats have died in Bantapur village under Khasbahal gram panchayat in Khariar block over last one week. Villagers said drying up of the two water bodies in the village besides failure of tube wells to discharge water resulted in the deaths.
US energy companies rushing to exploit Pennsylvania's massive natural gas reserves have launched a public relations campaign to calm fears the bonanza is contaminating water with toxic chemicals.
Drillers are holding public meetings to assure people the chemicals used to help extract gas from Pennsylvania's majority share of the Marcellus Shale cannot escape into drinking-water wells.
The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) yesterday called on the government to take immediate steps to prevent the Swine flu from spreading in the country by implementing a process of screening foreigners at the Bandaranaike International Airport.
