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Mental Health of Kashmiris Needs Urgent Attention: Survey

...lso frisking by security forces, round-up raids in villages and the destruction or threat of destruction of property. "Of particular concern was the prevalence of sexual violence revealed by the survey. Although the issue is not openly discussed in Kashmir, more than one in 10 people interviewed stated tha...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...tory disorders, the report said. Within the seven villages proven to have toxic contamination of drinking water, 107 people have died in the last five years from the above diseases that are characteristic of water poisoning. The study has urged a wide array of central and state government authorities to act...

Chinese Scientists Take Malaria Fight to Africa

...age carrier rate in the 10 most seriously affected villages on Moheli is 50 percent, the rate is as high as 94.4 percent in some villages and as low as 6.5 percent in other areas. Malaria is the most common cause of death for children und...

Madhya Pradesh Has India's Most Malnourished Kids

...ines.' Thousands of children in Barwani's tribal villages and adjoining districts face similar fate. Grindin...facilities also cause malnutrition deaths. In many villages beyond Bokarata there are no roads. The only mode of transportation is donkey. Patients, includin...

Better Healthcare for 100 Villages - Courtesy Indian American Physicians

One hundred villages in India will soon be well equipped with primary h...at more such tie-ups were in the pipeline. "These villages would also have mobile medical units and their primary healthcare centres will be equipped with tele...

Hong Kong on Bird Flu Alert

...cautions must be taken," he said. "We will visit villages again to ensure that no poultry is being kept illegally." This is the first case to be discovered in wild birds in Hong Kong since March last year. Between Jan 10 and March 22 2006, 15 wild birds, one backyard chicken and a chicken smuggled from ...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...with the terrible disease were banished from their villages and forced to live in isolation. Fu, who is not ... To her astonishment, none of the 30 or so leper villages she visited in Guangdong in 2002 had nurses. So she decided to settle down in the Tanshan Leper Reha...

Haryana Enhances Nutritional Support for Women, Children

... The minister said that women self-help groups in villages will be allowed to make purchases for supply of supplementary nutrition instead of the centralised system earlier. The food menu will also be decided by these groups at the local level. The self-help groups would function under village panchayats,...

Smoking Out Rats from Fields to Mizoram’s Dining Table

...eds of smoked rats come in to the city from nearby villages like Khawruhlian, Sesawng, Rawpuichhip every morning. "I don't keep records of my sales, but I normally sell about 200 smoked rats daily," Lalvenpuii, a New Market shopkeeper, told IANS. They don't come cheap either, with one smoked rat costing ...

Muslim Clerics to Join Hands to Eradicate Polio

... several places. The clerics said they would visit villages during the immunisation drive to inform people about the vaccine's safety. A seven-member executive committee and 17-member working team of ulemas were constituted to review the polio vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for 438 polio...

China Introduces Solar-powered Baths

...iene. The problem is especially acute in Chinese villages where some farmers and herdsmen do not bathe for a whole lifetime because of poverty and lack of facilities. Solar energy is being promoted in China's countryside as an alternative to inefficient and polluting gas stoves. The stoves rely on the ...

Two Children Die After Administering DPT Injection

Two children died in two Bihar villages soon after being administered DPT (diphtheria, per...sources, the deaths took place in Khaira and Sahar villages in Bhojpur district, about 60 km from here. Twelve children have been admitted to Ara Sadar Hospital...

12 Kids In Bihar Die Due To A Mysterious Disease

...official sources, 12 children died in two or three villages in Sikta block in West Champaran district due to the disease commonly referred as 'khasra' by local people. Over a dozen children were suffering from the same disease in the villages. "The fear of death had gripped the parents of children," loca...

Vice President Urges Dental Institutes to Adopt Some Villages

...that Dental Institutes will consider adopting some villages to make dental care accessible to the poor section of society. Shri Shekhawat, while inaugurating the newly constructed Dr. Harbans Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital at Chandigarh today complimented Dr. Harbans Singh Judge, a p...

Filipinos Hospitalized After Inhaling Toxic Fumes

.../official said. About 3,000 residents from five villages in Marilao town in Bulacan province have been temporarily evacuated to prevent them from inhaling the fumes, said Superintendent Edwin Aquilates. The victims vomited and complained of chest pain, dizziness and nausea. Aquilates said police have a...

Misled Public Stay Away from Polio Immunisation Drive

...as circulation of photocopies of the Urdu paper in villages around major cities on the eve of the periodical p...na Johri decided to personally visit some of these villages in western Uttar Pradesh. "This is how well intentioned programmes suffer on account of irrespons...

Awareness about Women's Cancers- A National Concern

... the basic facts of cancer prevails, especially in villages where superstitions surround the disease. Vaccines to prevent cervival cancer are now available. Breast cancer treatments are commonly done with a view to conserve the organ. Only the lump is removed and radiation is used on the surrounding tissu...

Mystery Killer Disease In Nepal Diagnosed As Cerebral Malaria

The mystery disease that has spread in some villages of Banke district in mid-western Nepal for the pas...sh Maskey said a medical team reached the affected villages with essential equipment and medicines Wednesday to examine the patients. "The disease was diagnos...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

...Mohanty, "what could be happening in all the other villages is a matter of grave concern." According to Mishra, "The main reason for high mortality is the careless attitude and lack of awareness among tribals." Girls are married off at an early age and no birth control measures are taken. The Kolha trib...

Dengue Toll Touches four in West Bengal

...o official figures, about 1,500 people in about 15 villages in Baduria and Swarupnagar are down with the disease. More than 1,200 blood samples have been sent to Pune for tests. Chikungunya was first reported in Bengal 43 years ago. Source-IANS...

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