Hyderabad, Oct. 6: With instances of infectious and water-borne diseases rising in the state, the century-old Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) at Narayanguda here is planning to launch a new project with 14 mobile laboratories to provide diagnostic services at the doorsteps. These mobile labs will monitor water quality, test food for toxicity and diagnose diseases.

Two children have reportedly died of gastroenteritis while the flow of patients is rising at state-run and private hospitals in the district.

Reports said one-year-old Qasim Ali of Ghakhar Mandi died at a private hospital in Daska on Sunday. His body was shifted to Ghakhar Mandi from Daska for burial.

In Pasrur, six-year-old Khalid also died of gastroenteritis.

A man died of gastroenteritis while at least 500 people, including women and children, were affected in Chak 62-JB, Chanan Ke, on Jhang Road, here on Thursday.

Scores of gastroenteritis patients were brought to the one-room state-run rural health centre (RHC) in Chanan Ke during the last two days. However, owing to lack of space at RHC all victims were treated at their houses.

One child died and 17 people suffering from gastroenteritis in some villages of the Kachho belt were admitted to hospital on Sunday.

Sadam 13, of village KT Wassan, died of gastroenteritis.

Condition of Mohammad Urs, Allah Dino Rodhnani, Haji Allah Bux Rodhnani, Mohammad Ramzan, Sakina Laghari and Mohammad Omer was stated to be serious.

Hyderabad, Sept. 21: Due to continuing rains in the state, viral fever and cholera cases are on rise in several areas including the state capital. Poor sanitation and contaminated water supply are cited as main reasons by the health experts for the spread of the water-borne diseases.

Diarrhoea has broken out in all the six upazilas of Netrakona with the recession of flood water.
At least 650 people, mainly old men and children, have been attacked with the waterborne disease in the last one week, according to sources at the district civil surgeon

IN the tsunami of December 2004, people heard a strange, deep rumbling before columns of the sea came in. In 2008, the people of north Bihar had no such warning. The river was silent and swift, rising from a deceptive two feet to nearly eight feet in a matter of hours, trapping lakhs of people in remote villages in the districts of Purnea, Madhepura, Araria, Supaul, Saharsa and Kul.

KOLKATA, Sept. 10: A day after 173 people were suspected to have been affected with enteric in Rabindra Pally and Purba Phulbagan areas of Jadavpur, over 50 more people were detected with similar symptoms today. This took the toll of affected people to over 200.

While the leakage in the water supply line, which is suspected to have caused the outbreak in the area, has been repaired by engineers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the water supplied to the area has still not been declared fit for consumption. Engineers said that chlorination of the water is being carried out.