India Diarrhoea Deaths

India's vaccination coverage to prevent rotavirus infection, a leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children, was the lowest among the 15 countries which introduced it last year, a new report said Friday. It also pointed out that India lost over 2.6 lakh children under five years from pneumonia and diarrhoea in 2016.

Two inmates died at a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Bihar, their postmortem was also conducted at Patna Medical College, but the officials of the state-run facility didn't bother to inform the police. Two days after the police got to know about the incident this morning,a board was constituted to look into the medical histories of t...

Three persons have died in the past four days due to diarrhoea and at least a hundred are affected by it in Nagaland's Mon district.

Between 2005 and 2015, the number of deaths due to diarrhoea decreased by 34.3 per cent among children younger than 5 years.

The death toll due to diarrhoea outbreak in six villages in Mathura has mounted to 14 after a four year-old girl died of the disease today, an official said.

New Delhi: India has the highest number of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea deaths among children in the world, indicates a report. According to the Pneumonia and Diarropea Progress Report, about 2,96,279 (approx 3 lakh) children died of the two diseases in 2016. The report, released by International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

Sachin Tendulkar launched an UNICEF-International Cricket Council joint campaign for clean environment. He said all stakeholders shuld contribute in the effort

Two people died and 43 admitted to the hospital with complain of nausea and diarrhoea after they allegedly drank contaminated water, officials said. The deceased include a 70-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, officials said. The 45 villagers from various housing colonies in Kombakkam were admitted on Sunday after they allegedly drank water supp...

The Jharkhand government's tall claim of spending crores on rural health care doesn't mean anything for villagers in Sonua. The predominantly tribal village has seen seven diarrhoea deaths in as many days, but the only help these people have are anganwadi workers who are not trained to deal with emergencies.Not a single doctor has visited the villa...

With the death of one more person, the toll due to diarrhoea has gone up to three in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, where 20 more patients have been admitted to the district hospital."Chuni Lal, a resident of Udhyanpur in Doda, who was hospitalised last week died of diarrhoea in the district hospital yesterday evening," Medical Superintendent ...

Four people died and 98 others were taken ill, 11 of them seriously, after being affected by diarrhoea in Orissa's Kandhamal district, official sources said.The deaths were reported since last one week in five remote villages under Daringibadi public health centre, additional district medical officer (ADMO-Public Health), Jatin Patnaik said.The dis...

India's vaccination coverage to prevent rotavirus infection, a leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children, was the lowest among the 15 countries which introduced it last year, a new report said Friday. It also pointed out that India lost over 2.6 lakh children under five years from pneumonia and diarrhoea in 2016.

Two inmates died at a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Bihar, their postmortem was also conducted at Patna Medical College, but the officials of the state-run facility didn't bother to inform the police. Two days after the police got to know about the incident this morning,a board was constituted to look into the medical histories of t...

Three persons have died in the past four days due to diarrhoea and at least a hundred are affected by it in Nagaland's Mon district.

Between 2005 and 2015, the number of deaths due to diarrhoea decreased by 34.3 per cent among children younger than 5 years.

The death toll due to diarrhoea outbreak in six villages in Mathura has mounted to 14 after a four year-old girl died of the disease today, an official said.

New Delhi: India has the highest number of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea deaths among children in the world, indicates a report. According to the Pneumonia and Diarropea Progress Report, about 2,96,279 (approx 3 lakh) children died of the two diseases in 2016. The report, released by International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

Sachin Tendulkar launched an UNICEF-International Cricket Council joint campaign for clean environment. He said all stakeholders shuld contribute in the effort

Two people died and 43 admitted to the hospital with complain of nausea and diarrhoea after they allegedly drank contaminated water, officials said. The deceased include a 70-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, officials said. The 45 villagers from various housing colonies in Kombakkam were admitted on Sunday after they allegedly drank water supp...

The Jharkhand government's tall claim of spending crores on rural health care doesn't mean anything for villagers in Sonua. The predominantly tribal village has seen seven diarrhoea deaths in as many days, but the only help these people have are anganwadi workers who are not trained to deal with emergencies.Not a single doctor has visited the villa...

With the death of one more person, the toll due to diarrhoea has gone up to three in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, where 20 more patients have been admitted to the district hospital."Chuni Lal, a resident of Udhyanpur in Doda, who was hospitalised last week died of diarrhoea in the district hospital yesterday evening," Medical Superintendent ...

Four people died and 98 others were taken ill, 11 of them seriously, after being affected by diarrhoea in Orissa's Kandhamal district, official sources said.The deaths were reported since last one week in five remote villages under Daringibadi public health centre, additional district medical officer (ADMO-Public Health), Jatin Patnaik said.The dis...