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Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

...as also resolved to lobby hard to get 20 municipal wards of Bhopal declared gas-affected. At present, only 36 of 56 municipal wards are considered gas-affected and people living outside these zones at the time of the tragedy can't g...

Its February - Time for a Talk With Your Teen

...that an open talk on sex between parents and their wards will prevent the teenager from becoming sexually active. And what occasion would be better suited for this than Valentine’s Day? "Discussing sexuality issues with teens can be a difficult conversation to have, let alone even initiate," she said in ...

Delhi's Morbidity Rate Nearly One-sixth of National Average

...public hospitals, 89 percent were admitted in free wards and remaining in paying general wards or special wards. Whereas, in private hospitals, only 3 percent were in free wards and the remaining...

Call for Rotavirus Vaccine Funding

...r, with many more turning up at hospital emergency wards and at doctors' surgeries with symptoms of acute d...h has placed significant strain on hospitals. Some wards are being closed and elective surgery cancelled because of it." The vaccine was registered for use...

South Africa: Nigerian Man Treated for Lassa Fever

...ase and to protect health workers in the isolation wards who might be most at risk. "These include the wearing of special protective clothing such as masks, gloves and gowns and the sterilisation of equipment," he said. Dr Rahman said early diagnosis of the patient was proof of the quality laboratory s...

New Research May Pave the Way for Shorter Hospital Stays for Diabetes Patients

...col-driven insulin therapy on the medical-surgical wards resulted in better glucose control, as compared to... subcutaneous insulin protocol on medical-surgical wards can help to improve diabetes control,” Alicia Leung, MD, at Stroger Hospital of Cook County in Chica...

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Spread of Respiratory Infections in Hospitals

...ry important to provide adequate space in hospital wards and implement effective infection control measures in order to avoid cross-contamination in hospitals.” Unfortunately, the authors note, it is a common practice for hospitals to increase the number of hospital beds inside a ward to meet the increas...

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

...erable to the disease and unless parents get their wards immunized against Japanese encephalitis, the situation could be frightening,"Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told IANS. A massive vaccination program launched by the state over the weekend has been affected with media reports about childr...

Mixed Sex Wards Still Continue For Psychiatric Patients

... to power in 1997, it had pledged to abolish mixed wards but the practice is reported to continue. Subseque...n health minister. He also stated that mixed-sex wards are exceptions in cases where patients were admitted in an emergency. But the survey discovered that...

Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre

... closure. Says Dr. Finnerty: “In many long-stay wards patients were observed by the inspectors to be wan... added. One-in-eight patients are in psychiatric wards mainly due to intellectual disability, yet they have practically no specialist supports, the report ...

Patient of Alzheimer’s Disease Still At Larg

...ety among caregivers who can no longer trust their wards to stay indoors. "Unpredictable behavior is one of the biggest challenges in Alzheimer's disease," Dobbs states. "It's not always the case, but people do wander off for no reason, and their cognitive impairment makes it necessary for others to have...

Chances of Tackling Racism in Mental Health Care is Still Remote

... The survey of 32,023 inpatients on mental health wards in 238 NHS and private healthcare hospitals reported that 21% of patients were from black and minority ethnic groups, although they represent only 7% of the population. Rates of admission were lower than average in the white British, Indian, and Ch...

Hospital Infection Deaths Continue in UK

...ollowing stories in national papers alleging dirty wards at the JPH, new chief executive Adrian Pennington has moved to reassure the public in the past week. The hospital has invested an extra ￡400,000 in an intensive cleaning program with bleach, known to kill the bug, and additional cleaners have been...

Significant Rise in Proportion of Chronically Ill Children Dying in Intensive Care

...ensive care after being admitted to other hospital wards has steadily risen year on year since the end of t...e, the numbers of those who had been admitted from wards within the hospital almost doubled over the same period from just under 15% to 25%. Children spen...

Rural Doctors Had It Enough

...rom abroad. In the rural area many hospitals and wards have closed down due to the shortage of doctors. The burden then rests on the shoulders of the existing doctors to look after the health of the community. This has taken a toll their health. Association national president Dr Mukesh Haikerwal has sa...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

...usical beds’ to accommodate patients. Transitional wards which were unstaffed saved the day during such emergencies. And amid such a scenario if a woman arrives in the late stages of labor, she would be accommodated on a chair, due to shortage of beds. Chief Executive of Barnet Hospital, which came unde...

New Health Drink—Coffe

...at coffee can be quite beneficial. Drinking coffee wards off Type 2 diabetes// and some kind of cancers too. Some experts believe that it can also lower the risk of heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver. Antioxidants in coffee help control the cell damage that can contribute to the development of the...

Thousands of Keralites Under the Grip of Chikungunya

.... It has asked private hospitals to open special wards for patients suffering from fever and to submit a list of the number of patients arriving for treatment....

Kerala Seeks Centres Help to Curb Chikungunya Spread

...rnment has asked private hospitals to open special wards for patients suffering from fever. The Kerala Government Medical Officers Association has also decided to extend their normal working hours given the seriousness of the situation. A central government team had visited the affected districts last...

South Africa Increasing Efforts To Contain Drug-Resistant TB, Minister Says

...d that the country is expanding hospital isolation wards and refining surveillance and detection methods in an attempt to contain extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis - TB that is resistant to the two most potent first-line treatments and some of the available second-line drugs. According to Skweyiya, r...

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