KANCHEEPURAM: The consumption of fish, netted from a heavily polluted lake near here, is believed to be the cause of acute diarrhoeal disease that affected more than 500 persons in the town and adjoining hamlets in the past six days, as the test of the drinking water sample supplied by the municipality has confirmed that the water is potable.
Even as 48 fresh cases of diarrhoea were reported in Chinna Kanch-eepuram on Sunday, the threat of the epidemic spre-ading to other villages, and even Chennai, looms large.
It seems India just can't save its little babies. Globally 9.7 million babies under five die and 2.1 million are in India alone. Around 27 million births occur in India every year, but 1.7 million infants die before one year and 1.08 million within one month.
Jerash refugee camp is one of the ten official Palestinian refugee camps located in Jordan. It is inhabited by about 28,000 people who originally fled from Gaza, Palestine, in 1968, as a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Wastewater has been used for irrigation in Jordan for several decades.
Zubeda Hameed |Chennai,
Fever, vomitting and diarrhoea are common complaints from the outlying inundated areas as the city lacks clean drinking water
TWO weeks after the cessation of rain, reports of outbreak of diseases are coming from several areas in the city and the suburbs.
Jeyanthai, medical officer, has advised the people to boil water before drinking
OVER 50 persons at a village near Palani began vomiting and suffered from diarrhoea after drinking water mixed with sewage.
Vilvanatham village is situated in the constituency of Government Whip Chakrapani. The president of the village panchayat is Bhuvaneswari Subramanian.
Mohali, November 03 : Leak in water-supply pipeline caused the epidemic, says Health Department, as Water Supply and Sanitation department denies claim
ASANSOL, Oct. 12: Two days after reports of at least 10 diarrhoea-related deaths in the Kulti municipality area became public, a joint team of experts, including paramedics, today began delivering medical assistance to residents. The team comprises five experts each from the Eastern Coalfields Limited and district health services.
