Hyderabad, July 19: Five children were rushed to Yashoda Hospital in Somajiguda after being administered anti-typhoid vaccines by a service organisation on Sunday.
According to doctors and parents, the children were administered vaccines in
Minister for Environment, Hamidullah Jan Afridi Thursday announced that there would be 100 per cent sanitation coverage by 2015, and stressed the need to devise a three pronged strategy to achieve this target.
Using slashed fruits, direct exposure to dust, substandard drinks prepared through unhygienic ways cause dangerous diseases out breaks like gastro-enteritis, hepatitis A & E, typhoid, cholera and others. This was stated by Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) Chairman Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh while addressing a lecture held under the auspices of PMS.
With the rising temperature, most people are worried how to deal with the spreading viral fever, but a medicine specialist says the best way is to take complete bed rest to get rid of it.
"Complete bed rest is usually called the actual treatment of viral fever, Dr M Foyjul Islam Chowdhury, Associate Professor (Medicine) of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) told the UNB correspondent.
Topics of importance of environment, fallouts of pollution and other environmental hazards should be included in syllabi from primary education till higher and professional education.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has been experiencing excessive pressure of the patients suffering from diarrhoeal diseases since last month.
Though the rush of patients was reduced a bit, it has augmented further since last Friday.
AHMEDABAD: Bureaucratic red tape resulted in 100 children suffering from typhoid and one succumbing to it. Outbreak of typhoid was caused by contamination of water and lack of proper sanitation facilities at three villages in Bavla.
Ahmedabad: Bureaucratic red tape resulted in 100 children suffering from typhoid and one succumbing to it. Outbreak of typhoid was caused by contamination of water and lack of proper sanitation facilities at three villages in Bavla.
