Bhubaneswar, Sep 3 – Three more people, including two children, died of swine flu in Orissa Friday, taking the total deaths due to the H1N1 influenza in the state to 22 in the past two months, officials said. The latest fatalities include a 61-year-old man, a four-year-old girl and an one-year-old boy, an official of [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – A massive cleaning up campaign will be initiated in the capital from Monday as part of measures to control the spread of dengue, which has affected over 1,000 people in the city so far, as per a decision taken at a review meeting chaired by union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Delhi reported 74 new cases of dengue, pushing the total number of those infected with the water-borne disease this year to 1,155, two more than the last year. With an average of 60 dengue cases reported daily over the last few days, the figure has crossed 1,150-mark in the Commonwealth [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – A meeting Friday to review the increasing dengue cases in the capital, which hosts Commonwealth Games Oct 3-14, focused on bringing coordination between various agencies to control the outbreak, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said. Delhi has so far 1,155 dengue patients. The review meeting here was attended, among others, [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Canadian experts will speak on the diagnosis and management of haemophilia at a two-day symposium here from Saturday, with India recording over 14,000 patients of the bleeding disorder since 1983. The international symposium is being jointly organised by the Bleeding Disorders Programme in Winnipeg, Canada and the Haemophilia Society (Delhi). [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday is holding a review meeting to discuss ways to check the rising number of dengue cases in the national capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games, an official said. ‘With the outbreak of dengue creating jitters, a high-level meeting with officials from the Directorate General [...]
New Delhi, Sep 2 – About eight percent of households in India are pushed to below the poverty line due to heavy medical expenses, said a new report on the Indian health sector Thursday. ‘India Health Report 2010′ by the Confederation of Indian Industry and a think tank, Indicus Analytics was released by Minister of [...]
Kolkata, Sep 2 – Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd is in talks with Parkway Holdings of Singapore to set up more hospitals in West Bengal via their existing joint venture, a top official said here Thursday. ‘Our agreement is for West Bengal only and we are looking at setting up more hospitals,’ Apollo Hospitals [...]
Aizawl, Sep 2 – The United Nations (UN) will support Mizoram in prevention of HIV/AIDS and in management of prisons in the northeastern state, an official said here Thursday. Cristina Albertin, representative of the New Delhi-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Regional Office for South Asia (UNODC-ROSA), made the announcement while addressing [...]
Guwahati, Sep 2 – Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has been declared fit, nearly a month after he underwent three critical heart surgeries in Mumbai’s Asian Heart Institute. He is expected to be discharged Friday and arrive here Sep 8. An Assam government spokesperson Thursday said Gogoi would stay in Mumbai until Sunday. ‘From Mumbai, [...]
New Delhi, Sep 1 – Britain Wednesday issued an advisory to its citizens travelling to New Delhi, saying the capital was currently experiencing a ‘seasonal outbreak of dengue fever’. ‘New Delhi is currently experiencing a seasonal outbreak of dengue fever,’ Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in its travel advisory, modified Wednesday evening. ‘According to [...]
New Delhi, Sep 1 – The national capital reported 54 new cases of swine flu, taking the total number of patients infected by Influenza A (H1N1) virus this year to 980, an official said Wednesday. ‘Out of the 54 new cases – 12 are children. No deaths have been reported today (Wednesday),’ Debashish Bhattacharya, nodal [...]
New Delhi, Sep 1 – India’s apex planning body, the Planning Commission, is interacting with and getting suggestions from the ground-level health workers and is incorporating these in policies to tackle malnutrition in the country. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a symposium, Arun Maira, member of the Planning Commission, said: ‘We are approaching [...]
New Delhi, Sep 1 – Delhi reported 77 more cases of dengue Wednesday, taking the total number of infected people by the mosquito-borne disease in the city this year to 980, an official said. ‘Delhi reported 77 cases of dengue today (Wednesday)… although, no one died,’ N.K. Yadav, chief medical officer of the Municipal Corporation [...]
Bhubaneswar, Sep 1 – A Chinese national is among five more people infected with swine flu in Orissa, taking the total number of victims in the state in the last two months to 87, an official said Wednesday. The 25-year-old foreigner works at a private factory in Jharsuguda, about 374 km from here. He tested [...]
New Delhi, Sep 1 – While bathing one morning, Sunaina Luthra felt a slight lump in her left breast. Thinking it was an allergic reaction caused by a new brand of deodorant used the day before, she ignored it. Only when she noticed that her lump was increasing did she tell her husband. The following [...]
New Delhi, Aug 31 – Mosquito breeding around Commonwealth Games venues has decreased after the drastic measures being taken by various agencies, according to the Delhi government. ‘The joint close monitoring by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the National Institute [...]
Raipur, Aug 31 – Chhattisgarh has sought financial assistance from the central government to battle sickle cell anaemia that has gripped the 18-20 percent of the state’s 20.08 million population, officials said Tuesday. The state government Monday briefed union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi about the disease that has attained alarming proportions, [...]
New Delhi, Aug 30 – Delhi reported 63 new cases of dengue Monday, taking to 829 the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease in the city, an official said. ‘Sixty-three people have tested positive for dengue in Delhi today (Monday), but no deaths were reported,’ said N.K. Yadav, chief medical officer, Municipal [...]
New Delhi, Aug 30 – A new directorate of public health should be established to keep a tab on the increasing cases of communicable diseases, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday. ‘A Directorate of Public Health should be established with people well trained in laboratory practices, surveillance, outreach and investigations. Such a cadre must [...]
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