Chhattisgarh

Lack of Medical Facilities Have Claimed Lives of Newborns at Chhattisgarh Hospital

As many as 178 newborn babies died at a government-run district hospital in Chhattisgarh during January-May 2007, Health Minister Amar Agrawal told the state assembly Tuesday . Amid protests and allegations by the opposition Congress members about the lack of basic medical facilities at the ...

Food Poisoning Kills Nine at Chhattisgarh Relief Camp

Raipur: Nine people, including three women and three kids, were killed and 27 were taken ill after a group of tribals consumed //rotten fish at a government-run relief camp in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, an official said Tuesday. Medical teams were sent late Monday to the relief camp in...

Heat Wave Sweeps Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is reeling under a heat wave with day temperatures in state capital Raipur and the northern region of Korba and Raigarh shooting// up to 42 degrees Celsius. Roads wore a deserted look in the industrial town of Korba. In Raipur, people preferred to remain indoors while government ...

Five Die of Food Poisoning in Chhattisgarh

Raipur: Five women died and two fell ill after consuming homemade food in a Chhattisgarh village, police// said Wednesday. Seven middle-aged women began to vomit after eating Tuesday night in Kilkila village in Jashpur district, 480 km northeast of Raipur. Five of them were declared brought ...

School Kids Take Out Anti-AIDS Rally in Chhattisgarh

Thousands of school students and volunteers of non-governmental organisations Friday took out an impressive anti-AIDS rally here and vowed to fight against the deadly disease.// Carrying banners of 'Stop AIDS Keep the Promise', participants also vowed to promote safe sex across the state during...

UNICEF To Help For The Betterment Of Refugee Kids in Chhattisgarh

UNICEF has offered to help the children of refugees settled in the makeshift relief camps of the Maoist-hit Dantewada district in the restive eastern state of Chhattisgarh.// UNICEF will specifically look into the health and educational problems of thousands of children settled in these camps...

Jailed Indian Pediatrician Wins 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights

...ks need to be recognized as a major contribution to India and to global health; they are certainly not a threat to state security." Large areas of chhattisgarh are embroiled in an armed conflict involving rebels, the state government and law enforcement, and armed civilian militias. Sen was detained on May 14...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

... Dabena village in chhattisgarh was one of the first to receive ready-made toilets under a state government campaign to ensure sanitation facilities in rural areas . But a majority o...

Leading Hospital in Andhra Plans Expansion

...ds in Hyderabad in 1997, has expanded to the neighbouring states. The hospital presently has 1,000 beds at 10 branches in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, chhattisgarh and Orissa. ...

Chhattisgarh to Launch Polio Campaign for Laborers Kids

... The chhattisgarh government will launch a three-day polio immunization drive from May 20 wit...p the state get rid of polio disease completely. "In a bid to make chhattisgarh polio disease free, the government will immunize kids across the state in a...

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