Tag: "districts" at medical news

45% of Indians Affected by Chikungunya Fever

...d high fever. So far the disease has spread to 151 districts in eight Indian states, and even to some islands in the Indian Ocean. The WHO said in the statement, posted on its Web site, 'In some areas, reported attack rates have reached 45 percent. After an interval of more than 20 years, chikungunya fever ...

Gates Foundation Grants $23mn for AIDS programme in India

... sections of people. It currently operates in 76 districts and across 535 towns of India. Source-IANS...

13-Year-Old Boy Is Latest Dengue Victim; Delhi Toll 47

...also battling chikungunya in many states, with 188 districts affected by the viral fever. Three fresh cases of chikungunya were reported Wednesday taking the total number of cases in the country to 1,666. Health officials said 29 chikungunya cases had been reported from Delhi. Among other states, Maharashtra ...

Madhya Pradesh battles polio with yet another drive

...een undertaken in Bhind Sep 10 along with 15 other districts of the state and 300,000 children were given pulse...campaign was conducted in Chhatarpur and six other districts June 25 and Aug 8. According to official records, 11 polio cases were detected in 2003 and 21 in 2...

Let Us All Join Government To Ban Child Labour

...s schemes and projects in all child labour endemic districts all over the country. Talking about this issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: the Government would take ''firm action'' against the violators. ''I appeal to the citizens, forums representing voices of all sections in the society, employees of...

National Neonatology Forum Plans to Celebrate Newborn Week

...reement with UNICEF to provide care packages in 10 districts in collaboration with the governments of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Assam. The forum came into existence in 1980 through the initiative of a handful of leading paediatricians working in neonatology. It soon be...

India warned of Impending AIDS Disaster

...that the rising prevalence of HIV in more than 100 districts in which the foundation operates showed that a decade of government efforts had still not slowed the virus, which is now estimated to have infected 5.7 million Indians. Alexander added, "The huge challenge is scaling up prevention efforts. 2007 is w...

India Approves Oral Drug for Treating Kala-Azar

...ided to introduce the drug in 10 Kala-azar endemic districts in the country and procurement of drug is under way. This information was given in the Lok Sabha today by Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a written reply to a question by Shri Braja Kish...

Prevention of Bird Flu Among Human Beings

...f Avian Flu among poultry in Nundurbar and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra, Surat District of Gujarat and Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh in February-April, 2006. Due to the coordinated action no human case of avian influenza was reported. This contingency plan would hold good for any recurrence of bird ...

Unsafe Sex, HIV Infected Transfusion Spreading AIDS in Madhya Pradesh

...AIDS awareness. These communities spread over 24 districts of the state - including Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch... official. Western Madhya Pradesh, specially 14 districts of the Malwa and the Nimar regions touching commercial areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat, are in fact...

Government Plans to Set Up Mobile Dispensaries in States

...t Maharashtra proposes mobile medical units for 33 districts in the state. The state has also a plan to convert 172 flying medical squads currently functioning in the tribal areas into mobile dispensaries. "Under NRHM, states and union territories will have one mobile medical units in every district for taki...

Polio Outbreak on Wane: Next Rounds Must Focus on Youngest Children

...igns focused on the youngest children in high-risk districts of UP and Bihar. “The two recent high-quality camp...as partly due to children being missed in critical districts in the latter part of 2005 and early 2006. Data has shown that Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are among the...

RVF Kills 14 in Kenya

...l medical and veterinary personnel to the affected districts and is also involved in the distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets. SRI...

Number of HIV Cases in India Not Inflated: Ministry

...dings of one district to the entire country of 611 districts is undesirable and out of the scope of the original objectives," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry also questioned the claim made by Baba Ramdev, a popular spiritual leader and yoga expert, that yoga can cure AIDS. A separate statement...

Kalaazar sweeping through Bihar, 93 dead

...in Bihar. The disease has got 31 of the state's 38 districts in its grip. Known as the poor man's disease bec...deaths were reported from Muzaffarpur and Vaishali districts - 29 died in Muzaffarpur and 35 in Vaishali. Of the rest, 17 were reported from in East Champaran, n...

Tuberculosis: The Bacillus Takes Refuge in Adipose Cells

..., where tuberculosis is endemic, and from Parisian districts reporting very few cases of tuberculosis. The bacterium was detected in the adipose tissue of about a quarter of these people, all of whom were unaware they were infected, in both Mexico and France. These results suggest that the bacillus responsib...

Tamil Nadu Checks AIDS Spread

...arge-scale support programme in 14 high prevalence districts of Tamil Nadu, TAI, administered by the Voluntary Health Services, has in two years managed to reach out to 50,000 male and female sex workers in the state with help from 25 NGOs. "TAI addresses the vulnerability of the sex workers," says project d...

Fresh Polio Case Reported in Jammu

...population and poor hygienic conditions in several districts are contributing heavily to the spread of the disease." Health authorities said there was some lapse in the immunisation drive in 2005, which resulted in the resurgence of the disease last year. However, they argue that the renewed zest shown in ...

A Rehearsal To Deal With Possible Bird Flu Outbreak Conducted In Vietnam

...d flu virus in December 2006, in 33 communes in 15 districts in the three provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Hau Giang, set off alarm bells and put the country on an alert. According to the Department of Animal Health of Vietnam Ministry, this recent out break has killed some 6,000 poultry, and led to the cul...

Cold and Flu Rampant in Beijing

...illion patients listed in 67 hospitals spanning 18 districts and counties, 2.4 percent have come down with flu. Hospitals have geared up to face the influx of patients. "Not everyone has flu, some just have a common cold. The ratio is not much higher than last year's and will drop in the last 10 days of the ...

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