Assam in Medical News

Scare in Assam Over Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

Guwahati: Healthcare authorities in Assam Wednesday warned of an epidemic if parents do not get their children immunized against the fatal Japanese encephalitis//, which claimed 119 lives in the state last year. "Children are vulnerable to the disease and unless parents get their wards immuni...

Malaria Epidemic Forces Assam Rebels Out Of The Jungle

Dozens of separatist guerrillas in Assam were forced out of the jungles not by the armed forces, but by the mosquitoes, seeking treatment for malaria.// A police spokesperson said a malaria epidemic sweeping Assam and its adjoining areas have forced rebels of the outlawed United Liberation Fro...

Refreshing Assam Tea Now At The Nearest Post Office

Guwahati: The next time you can't control the urge to have your cup of the world-famous, rich and malty Assam Tea, just hop over to the nearest post office and get it over the counter//. Tea aficionados, at least those across India, who swear by the mesmerizing aroma of a blend produced in on...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

The Assam government Tuesday sounded an alert following a malaria epidemic that has claimed at least 25 lives and affected about 10,000 people. "Doctors and paramedics have been put on alert across Assam with medical teams, including mobile units, fanning out to vulnerable areas to check t...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

The Assam government Tuesday sounded an alert following a malaria epidemic that has claimed at least 25 lives// and affected about 10,000 people. "Doctors and paramedics have been put on alert across Assam with medical teams, including mobile units, fanning out to vulnerable areas to check th...

US NGO to Counsel HIV/AIDS Patients in Assam

Guwahati: A leading US HIV/AIDS healthcare provider will soon be reaching out to hundreds of people living with the virus in Assam to provide treatment and support//. The US-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will set up three voluntary counselling and testing centres in Assam's main city ...

Malarial Deaths on Rise in Assam

Malaria continues to be a killer in Assam with 275 deaths reported so far this year - a new record in recent years, parliament was told Friday.// Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that Assam is endemic for malaria. Near...

Malaria Claims 271 In Assam

Malaria has claimed the lives of 271 people this year in Assam, state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said here. // Replying to the debate on cut motions in the state assembly, Sarma said the exact toll could be higher as information from interior areas had not reached the state capital. ...

Japanese Encephalitis Epidemic Kills 15 in Assam

Authorities in Assam Friday sounded a health alert after 15 people died of Japanese encephalitis and hundreds more were down with the mosquito-borne disease in the past two weeks, officials said.// An Assam health department spokesperson said Japanese encephalitis had assumed epidemic proportion...

18 Die of Japanese Encephalitis in Upper Assam

At least 18 people, mostly children and women, have died of Japanese encephalitis in upper Assam districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji since the beginning of the month. // According to official sources here, 14 people died of the disease in Lakhimpur district, where nearly 100 others have been a...

Malaria kills 75 in Assam

Health officials have confirmed that 75 people have so far succumbed to the malaria epidemic, which is sweeping through the northeastern state of Assam like wildfire. Till date 335,000 people have been infected with the disease. // "So far 75 people have died of cerebral malaria since the disea...

Malaria Epidemic Claims 50 Lives In Assam

At least 50 people have died and up to 25,000 affected in a malaria epidemic in Assam, officials Tuesday said. // "Doctors and paramedics have fanned out to take preventive steps and cure those hit by the disease," Assam Health Minister Bhumidhar Barman told IANS. The minister said 50 peopl...

Malaria Claims 35 Lives In Assam

Assam was put on high alert on Thursday following an outbreak of malaria that claimed 35 lives and affected 20,000 people//. "A maximum alert has been sounded across Assam and medical teams are working on a war footing to check the spread of malaria," Assam Health Minister Bhumidhar Barman to...

HIV-Positive Woman To Be Congress Candidate In Assam

A 29-year-old HIV-positive woman in Assam is all set for a plunge into politics by becoming the ruling Congress party candidate for next month's assembly elections.// Jahnabi Goswami is expected to be the party's candidate from the Barhampur assembly constituency in eastern Assam's Nagaon dist...

Activist Groups' Plea to Indian Prime Minister: 'Rollout Second-Line AIDS Treatment!'

... make these drugs available." Last week, AHF/India Cares, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in India (in Mysore, New Delhi and in Guwahati, assam in collaboration with NACO) that provide treatment, care and support services to over 5,000 Indian clients, announced that it is now providing lifesav...

'AHF/India Cares' Provides Second-line AIDS Drugs to Activists in India

...of second-line treatment is increasing daily. AHF/India Cares operates AIDS care treatment and support centers in Mysore, New Delhi and in Guwahati, assam State in partnership with NACO. Since March 2007, AHF/India Cares has been providing free second-line ART to AIDS activists and clients in need; today...

'Cipla, Tell the Truth'; AIDS Healthcare Foundation Launches New Ad Campaign

...care Foundation currently provides free anti-retroviral treatment to people in need in India through its clinics in Mysore, New Delhi and in Guwahati, assam under the AHF India Cares banner and in collaboration with the National AIDS Control Organization. In the Asia-Pacific region, AHF also operates free ...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

... With vast parts of rural assam still deprived of modern health infrastructure , a...stricts. We hope to take our services to the lower assam districts of Dhubri and Barpeta," Hazarika told IA...ited Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), Indian Oil, assam Oil Company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

... jubilant with the two products hitting markets in assam soon after being granted provisional patent rights...k. "The idea to launch the two products in assam is mainly to get a feedback from consumers and if ... India is the world's largest tea producer with assam accounting for about 55 percent of the total 955 m...

Plastic Ban in Guwahati to Ease Flooding

... The assam government Tuesday enforced a ban on the use of plastic and polythene materials to prevent drains from getting clogged after heavy rains the day befor...

Various Civil Society Groups Form Alliance to Fight HIV/AIDS

...eople living with HIV, have formed an alliance in assam to jointly fight HIV/AIDS that has assumed epidemi...e with dignity," Jahnabi Goswami, president of the assam Network of Positive People (ANPP), told reporters ...h HIV. There are some 1,780 HIV-positive people in assam although unofficial estimates put the number at cl...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...y, he says, growing heat from the plutonium will cause it to break free and contaminate the surroundings, which in turn will affect Shigatse in Tibet, assam in India and Bangladesh. There are parallels with Chernobyl in Ukraine where radioactive material leaked out from a nuclear plant in 1986, kil...

Smallpox Alert in Northeast

...HO was eradicated in 1984. "We have also instructed doctors and health workers to take necessary help from the Border Security Force (BSF) and assam Rifles as and when required," Muhuri added. He also urged the people to be careful about any person crossing over to India from neighbouring B...

Jaipur Foot All Set to Launch Its Centre in Columbia

...also known as a "mini India" with people flocking to it for relief from all over the country. "We receive patients from Gujarat in the west to assam in the east, and from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the south," said a BMVSS official. ...

Child Abuse - When God’s Gifts Land in Devils’ Clutchs

...en had been subjected to sexual abuse of different kinds. The Indian states that reported the highest cases of child abuse were Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, assam and Delhi, in that order. The survey also revealed, the perpetrators of 50% of the child abuse cases were well known to the victims. Almost all childr...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...ozen HIV-positive people have committed suicide in assam in the last few months while hundreds of others ar...ith the stress," Jahnabi Goswami, president of the assam Network of Positive People (ANPP), told IANS. ...cly declared they are HIV-positive. Although assam is one of the few Indian states to have set up Vol...

Married Women, Children Most Anemic in India

... pregnancy, and many other health-related problems. Among the states, assam is the worst affected, with 72 percent of its married women suffering from ...th and nutrition, UNICEF India. "Prevalence of malaria in states like assam is also responsible for this development," he added. Talking about th...

Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict

...g is the fear, dislike and the wider social insecurities it generates among the minds of people. The problem is acute in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, assam & Kashmir, Maharastra and Gujarat. Source-PVR/Hb Dr. Shroff ...

Fresh Polio Case Reported in Jammu

...eported from other states in 2006 include Haryana (18), Uttaranchal (13), Punjab (8), Delhi (6), Maharashtra (5), Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (3 each). assam has reported two cases. One case each was reported from Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In Dec...

Where Burnt Out Executives De-stress in Nature's Lap

... A scenic wildlife resort in assam is turning out to be the favourite destination for burnt out executives of leading private and public sectors companies// . With performance bei...

Assam Government to Invest Rs. 60 bn to Improve Healthcare Industry

... Guwahati: The assam government is to invest Rs.60 billion to upgrade i...atter of time before the three medical colleges in assam would give the private nursing homes and hospitals a real run for their money," assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told IANS. ...

Judicial Probe Ordered for Botched Eye Surgery Camp

... The assam government Friday ordered a judicial probe to inve...ng a free cataract operation camp organised by the assam government last month under the National Programme...s were later shifted for advanced treatment by the assam government to the Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai. ...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...investigator of a United Nations Development Programme-WHO project on kala azar, said in the pre-independence era, the parasite came to the state from assam via West Bengal. "But things have changed and Bihar is now the source of all kala azar cases. People migrate from here to Delhi or West Bengal a...

Assam Heat Wave Claims Five.

...pled with an abnormally dry spell has prompted the assam government to order closure of all educational ins...erely affected due to the drought-like situation," assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said at a meeting of se...ve of flooding that began in June in some parts of assam killed 11 people and displaced around half-a-milli...

Legislation to Prevent Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Victims

...ng deliberated upon." Dr. Ramadoss admitted that HIV/AIDS was a serious issue in the paramilitary forces, especially in Border Security Force and assam Rifles, and intervention measures were being discussed with the Home Ministry for this. The Health Ministry has proposed the amendment of Section ...

Postmen to Deliver Anti-malaria Medicines Along with Letters in Jharkhand

...cines because they are the ones who visit the remotest parts of the state,' said Jharkhand health secretary Sivendu. From delivering letters to assam tea to anti-malaria medicines, the job of a postman is getting diversified by the day. According to an estimate of the health department more t...

North East Having Highest Cancer Incidences In Country

...amrup, Dibrugarh, Barpeta and Nalbari districts of assam have the highest incidences. These districts also ..., no figures were given. Men of Mizoram and assam and women of Meghalaya and assam have the highest number of cancer of esophagus whi...

Assam To Write To Medical Council On Admission Irregularities

... assam government will write to All Indian Medical Counci...ties in the admissions to post graduate courses in assam Medical College Hospital at Dibrugarh //, Health M...arious medical colleges were allotted seats in the assam Medical College Hospital from the 50 per cent all ...

Malaria Claims 24 Lives In Garo Hills Region Of Meghalaya

... Malaria has claimed 24 lives in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region bordering assam and Bangladesh this year, state's Health minister E D Marak told the assembly today//. Replying to a calling attention notice by Manas Chaudhur...

Blind Girl Students to Catwalk in Guwahati Fashion Show

...atwalk alongside eight blind girl students at a unique fashion show in this assam city// . Preparations are on for the show 'Light Up the World' slated ...ummer collections created with an ethnic touch. Around 20 other models from assam and outside the state would walk the ramp in the novel show. "We want...