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Miners in Madhya Pradesh at High Risk of Developing TB

...nate the Pahargarh, Chhaina, Likhiganj and Sihonia villages of Madhya Pradesh's Morena district. The benefits of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) continue to evade these poverty stricken villagers and even when they manage to get medicines, they are not cured because of high level...

Anthrax Claims Two Lives in Orissa

...e government has sent a team of doctors to the two villages to treat villagers and create awareness among them about the disease. "The team will camp in the villages to monitor the situation. They have also destroyed cattle meat preserved in some houses there," the ...

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

...horrors occur off camera and out of sight in dusty villages and shanty towns where nothing grows, except the appetites of small children.' 'Call For Action' The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) in collaboration with members and campaign supporters) publishes a 'Call for Action' e...

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

...ive to fight the virus. About 100,000 leaders of villages will receive the kits, which also contain educational material about the virus, and urges them to take precautions when handling poultry. The first kits were handed out in Tenggulun Timur village this week in a high-risk area of West Java, officials ...

Orissa Under Anthrax Threat

...while a team of doctors is camping in the affected villages to monitor the situation," he added. Anthrax usually affects cattle but some time passes to humans if they eat contaminated meat. Antibiotics often cure the disease if it is diagnosed early. However, many people do not know they have anthrax unti...

Social Worker in Jharkhand Spreads AIDS Awareness Through Music

...Ranchi, formed a music troupe and started visiting villages to spread awareness about health problems 12 years...pati Mahto, a resident of Gumla. Most Jharkhand villages lack television sets and newspapers hardly ever reach them. There are nearly 37,000 leprosy patie...

Twenty-two Chikungunya Cases Confirmed in Maharashtra

...ed in Kolhapur district of the sate . "Of the 20 villages in Kolhapur district from where an outbreak of the..."Preventive measures are being taken for the other villages within a five-km radius of the affected villages," she said. Health authorities are also monitorin...

Women Deliver Babies With Eye Defects in Jharkhand Villages

Nearly 30 women in two Jharkhand villages have given birth to babies with eyesight defects. ...nts of Giridih district, both Chatro and Mahuatand villages in Giridih witness babies born with either physical deformities or eyesight problems. "There are ...

A Village in Madhya Pradesh Achieves Total Sanitation

...ya Pradesh's Guna district stands apart from other villages - it's spick and span. This has been made possible through the Total Sanitation// Campaign (TSC) launched by the administration almost six months back. Slogans propagating sanitary habits and cleanliness adorn its walls. The alleys passing through ...

Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

...e same trauma. So they inform brides and grooms in villages about the importance of the blood test before gett... their campaign, more than 30 couples from various villages in Hooghly district have got their blood tested before getting married. "Whenever we hear of a mar...

New Invention to Detect Blood Clots

...e extremely useful in hospitals in small towns and villages where a CTscan is not available as it is very expensive. Being portable it can be taken to accident sites. In major accidents it can prioritize the patient requiring transport to a facility where there is neurosurgery capability. The American Navy ...

Encephalitis Kills 6 in Western Bangladesh

...disease first broke out in Khajanagar and Kaburhat villages in Kushtia district a week ago. Those attacked by the disease were aged between 12 and 60. According to Kushtia General Hospital doctors, initially the victims died for lack of proper treatment as the disease could not be identified. The sympt...

Kolkata, Mumbai to Face Maximum Brunt of Climate Change

...ange (IPCC), the rise in sea level and flooding of villages would become a regular affair in the near future. ...s is projected to be very high. "Due to flooding villages in low line areas of both the cities would migrate to the city and thus create a survival problem bo...

Satellites Set to Play Good Samaritans in India

...ication projects to cover more than 600,000 Indian villages where around 700 million people live," Krishnamurthy told a visiting team of mediapersons here. EDUSAT services commenced in March 2005 with the launching of a primary education project in Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka. It was a joint effort...

MPs Vow to Fight Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

... members of Citizen Alliance, who are visiting the villages in Madhya Pradesh to assess malnourishment among children and ways to combat it. "We have started an important task necessitated by the figures of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) - III, which puts Madhya Pradesh on top as far as child maln...

Transplant Tourism on the Rise, Says WHO

...Pakistan. 40-50 per cent of the residents of some villages have only one kidney because they have sold the other for a transplant into a wealthy person, probably from another country, said Dr Farhat Moazam of Pakistan, one of the participants in the WHO meeting. Moazam said Pakistani donors are offered USD...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

...Dr. Savioli said. Guinea worm is endemic in some villages of sub-Saharan Africa, spread through contaminated water. Its effects are crippling, with victims developing large ulcers, usually in the lower leg. The ulcers swell, at times to the size of a tennis ball, and burst, releasing a spaghetti-like worm r...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

... Currently the disease is still endemic in certain villages in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the low cost methods to prevent people from being infected are providing safe drinking water supplies, filtering drinking water using fine-mesh cloth, and preventing infected people from wading into water sources to ...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

...a units for the Kala Azar affected families in 216 villages spread in over two dozen districts of the state. "At least 60 houses will be built in each of 216 villages for the kala azar affected families at the cost of Rs.24.30 crores (Rs.243 million)," Singh said. ...

Madhya Pradesh Gets Tough on Sex Determination Tests

...000 boys), Morena (837) and Gwalior (853). In some villages of Morena, there are as few as 400 to 700 females for every 1,000 males. "If conditions do not improve, girls will be on the brink of extinction at these places," said another official, pointing out that the state's ratio (920 girls per 1,000 boy...

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