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Dengue Fever Claims Five Lives In Pakistan

...' a spokesman of the Health Ministry said. All the hospitals in Karachi have been put on alert, with careful screening of all incoming patients. The vector of the dangerous dengue fever is the Aedes Egyptii mosquito that usually bites during the day. The spokesperson said that the government had sent blood sa...

Fear Of Dengue Epidemic Looms Large: Fever Kills Five in Pakistan

...re. A spokesman of the health ministry said that hospitals in this southern Pakistan port city had been put on alert and that the government had sent blood samples of five patients from Congo to laboratories in South Africa for tests. Meanwhile, the health minister Nisar Khan appealed to the public not to...

Terminally Ill Children Require Home Care

...terminally ill should not be compelled to visit // hospitals for specialist care. A guidance has been issued by the Department of Health which insists that individual needs must be catered to while providing treatment, which is inclusive of caring at home like nurse led services. It should also be ensured t...

Pneumonia Claims 30 Lives In Pakistan

... dead because of pneumonia by the aid agencies and hospitals working in the earthquake-hit areas,' Geo television said quoting its correspondents from Kashmir and NWFP. Pneumonia and other cold related diseases are fairly common in the winter in these areas but this year the number of patients suffering from ...

AMA To Combat Obesity

...for addressing nutritional problems, starting from hospitals to schools. It is necessary to address the obesity problem of the country to prevent 50% of the youth of Australia from becoming overweight by the year 2025. A National Nutrition Centre is also planned to be established in the country which will ad...

UN To Honor People Who Fight AIDS

... the world, communities working in the building of hospitals are already reversing the threats of AIDS,' she said. The AIDS 2006 program is supported by the UN Development Program and UNAIDS. --DPA...

‘Life Cell’ In India Can store Cord Blood Stem Cells and Save Live

...cord blood are discarded everyday in all maternity hospitals as a bio-medial waste, however this precious source can give a renewed// hope to many and prove to be a life saver for many patients suffering from debilitating conditions. Cord blood in fact can help cure more than 75 ailments. It is now possibl...

Patna To Receive Better Health Care Facility Informs Health Minister

... the near future. He said that the city needs more hospitals with ICUs// and ambulance facilities 24-hour healt...ernment in the construction of eleven new district hospitals and 20 sub-divisional hospitals for the benefit of the common man....

Conditions Of The HIV/AIDS Patients In The Mizo Society

... others relatives don’t accept the bodies from the hospitals after they die. The key factor that prevents the Mizo society to accept AIDS patients, as any other patient because they are rooted to the idea that the disease is a reprimand for sex workers and drugs users. The results of blood samples that were ...

US is unprepared for a bio-terrorist attack

...ck. Backup supplies are lacking in over 40% of the hospitals in the states. The Hurricane Katrina disaster was an example which illustrates how poor the response capabilities of the US are. These conclusions were arrived at after conducting a survey of 20 leading public-health experts, and over 1,800 members ...

Shortage Of Funds In Primary Care Trust In UK

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has urged hospitals to delay operations until the new financial year i...or Primary care trust (PCT) is in deficit ... Some hospitals would dearly love to get rid of all waits in the next six months, but the funding is not there to do...

Shanghai To Tackle Hypertension

...s to bring down the number// of patients who go to hospitals which are more expensive. The program which will c...tations of the people who seek large and expensive hospitals for treatment. Better medical systems are sought to be introduced by the program by transferring chr...

U.S. Hospitals may help Spread Bird Flu Pandemic

U.S. hospitals could contribute to the spread of influenza during...l Center for Policy Analysis predicted that unless hospitals tighten procedures quickly, they could contribute to the spread of H5N1. U.S. officials continue t...

Panic In Russia Over HIV Infected Blood

Patients at Russian hospitals are in a panic after news that HIV infected blood had been administered to 208 people, with one of them getting infected with the virus. A 35 year old female donor in Voronezh is reported to have donated the infected blood//. Conflicting statements a...

Older generation might pose a threat to increase the NHS budget

...lems with an average increase of admissions to the hospitals regarding these problems will be around 42%. There is also an alarm for an increase in the need for statins which the doctors prescribe for the heart patients to reduce cholesterol. But as of now this drug is the sole constituent in the National He...

Pakistan On Alert After Cases Of Fatal Fever

...here. Health authorities early Monday put all the hospitals in the twin cities on high alert. Rukhsana Iqbal, 35, was brought to RGH after she developed high fever and a serious bleeding disorder a few days after she gave birth to her eighth child in a private clinic. Doctors say CCHF is transmitted to huma...

Jharkhand To Have Mobile Hospital

...people in the state.// Initially five such mobile hospitals will begin operating from January next year. A h...ealth department official told IANS: "These mobile hospitals with expert doctors will cover rural areas in 22 districts where the poor are deprived of medical fa...

Scrutiny Sought For Reused Devices in U.S.

...processing is a growing industry believed to serve hospitals in all 50 states and at least eight medical facili.... They also say no surgery is without risk. Many hospitals which reuse processed equipment cite the practice's safety and cost savings. DeLauro, however, expr...

Indonesia Has Ninth Bird-Flu Death as Risk Mounts

...wl. The hospital, in north Jakarta, is one of 44 hospitals in the country designated to treat suspected bird-flu patients. Indonesia's latest confirmed fatality was likely caused by infected fowl, the Indonesian health ministry's Hariadi said. The deceased man “had a history of direct contact with sick chi...

Panic and probe due to mysterious deaths

...l four patients had been "in and out of a range of hospitals and will have consumed meat from a range of other ...ing families is a tough call." This has made all hospitals take notice and review their food preparation methods and inspect kitchens....

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