Each year, about 70,000 children die of diarrhoea in Pakistan. Simple, basic information and knowledge on hand washing or preparing oral rehydration salt (ORS) at home can save the lives of children.
One person died and seven others were admitted following reports of a diarrhoea outbreak because of suspected water contamination in Ward 20 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) over the past few days. Civic officials are yet to determine the cause of diarrhoea.
We studied the implementation of the World Health Organization protocol for the treatment of malnourished children at the largest maternal and infant hospital in the northeast of Brazil. The implementation of the protocol resulted in a reduction in the mortality rate from 38.0% to 16.2%.
Every day more than 700 diarrhoea patients from different parts of the capital flock for treatment at ICDDR,B as the government is yet to take effective measures for clean water supply. About half of the patients are infants and children.
Speakers at a conference stressed the need to spread awareness pertaining to the significance of safe food to discourage the consumption of unhygienic and unhealthy foodstuffs.
A total of 2,275 people were affected with diarrhoea across the country in past 24 hours till 5:00pm on Tuesday, according to the health services control room.
Seven hundred and 21 diarrhoeal patient were admitted to the ICDDR,B hospital during this time, said the control room record.
With the advent of summer, diarrhoea has broken out in an epidemic form in the capital city of Dhaka mainly due to scarcity of pure drinking water.
More than one thousand diarrhoea-affected people were admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) during last two days, according to sources in ICDDRB.
