Full coverage: Health

30.10.2006 On an average, more than 400 infants below the age of one die in Bihar on any given day. According to Unicef, nearly two-thirds of infant deaths occur during the first month of the child’s life. Timely intervention could help save these lives, thus reducing the state’s abysmal infant mortality rate, reveals a survey conducted by the UN children’s aid body.

27.10.2006 Dr.Anjana Maitra explores ways in which Information Communication Technology tools can be used to facilitate behavioural change communication for safe motherhood. This paper was presented at a Consultation and Experience Sharing on Safe Motherhood at BITS, Pilani on September 8-9 2006.

24.10.2006 Od 24 do 28 oktomvri, 2006 godina, vo ramkite na Nacionalnata kampanja “Bidi del od resenieto, ne od problemot” koja ima za cel da ja zapoznae posirokata javnost so programite za namaluvanje na steti i da ja namali stigmata i diskriminacijata kon licata sto upotrebuvaat droga i nivnite semejstva, vo Skopje ke se oddrzat poveke edukativni i kulturni nastani pod mototo VNIMANIE! PREDOZIRANOST OD OSUDI.

24.10.2006 Under the framework of the “Be Part of the Solution, Not the Problem” National Campaign, series of educational and cultural events will be held in Skopje, under the motto “Attention! Prejudice Overdose”. The National Campaign aims to introduce the general public about the problem for reduction of damages and stigmatization and discrimination of drug-abusers and their families.

23.10.2006 Maailmassa kuolee vuodessa yli puoli miljoonaa naista raskauden komplikaatioihin. Kunnon sairaala – ja kyyti sinne – pelastaisi monen. Raskaus ja synnyttäminen ovat yhä yksi suurimmista riskeistä naisten terveydelle ja hengelle. Niihin liittyvät ongelmat ovat syynä joka neljänteen hedelmällisessä iässä olevan naisen kuolemaan maailmassa.

21.10.2006 Il Premio "Cuore amico" 2006 viene assegnato oggi a Brescia a p. Giovanni Querzani, missionario saveriano che opera nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo, a suor Domitilla Mosella attiva in Costa D’Avorio e al dott. Gianfranco Morino, un medico che presta la sua opera in Kenya. E proprio il dott. Morino denuncia che l’Africa si sta disintegrando sotto i nostri occhi, depredata del sottosuolo e delle foreste, distrutta dall’Aids, strangolata dal debito e dai banditi ai governi, ulteriormente impoverita dalla fuga dei suoi cervelli migliori". E pone una domanda: "Noi piccoli e grandi lavoratori della cooperazione dovremmo farci onestamente una domanda: siamo parte del problema o parte della soluzione?". L’obiettivo del Premio Cuore Amico, "Nobel missionario", è segnalare l'opera promossa dalla Chiesa attraverso l'evangelizzazione e a favore dei poveri del Sud del mondo.

21.10.2006 El Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL), la Fundación Preventiva de SIDA “Fernando Iturbide”, la Asociación de Salud Integral y la Red Nacional de Personad que Viven con VIH/SIDA participaron, el día de ayer, en una audiencia ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH)

18.10.2006 The poor - and the not-so-poor - in urban India are also very badly served by this system, which lets them down on so many counts even while forcing them to pay larger shares of their own income on health care. There are public failures in terms of inadequate investment and inefficient regulation. The parlous state and sheer difficulty of access of government hospitals forces even the poor to turn to private practitioners.

16.10.2006

polio vaccination © Crack Palinggi / Reuters / Corbis; permissions through "Rx for Survival"

At one time it was thought that polio had been completely eradicated from Nepal. After an intensive campaign launched several years ago by administering polio drops to children below five years of age throughout the country no cases of new polio cases were reported for a number of years. But now there are reports of some polio cases detected in some places in the country bordering India.

16.10.2006 Mosquito-borne dengue fever has killed at least 17 people in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, in the past four months, five of them since the beginning of October.

16.10.2006 Pune will once again come on the global map, this time for its healthcare. Perhaps for the first time in the country, a super specialty hospital dedicated to women and children will be set up in the city.

16.10.2006 A workshop on protocols for neonatal care was held in Kochi, Kerala to streamline the management of second-level care given at hospitals and nursing homes.

16.10.2006 The dengue death toll has crossed 100, even as 161 new cases were reported nationwide. This takes the total number of people affected to 5,036. The Capital registered six deaths during the past 24 hours, the largest number on a single day since the outbreak of the disease.

13.10.2006 En una democracia, la prohibición de productos y actividades perjudiciales es la expresión de las libertades y derechos de los ciudadanos. Las prohibiciones protegen a los ciudadanos de peligros contra la salud y el medioambiente.

12.10.2006 Maternal health appears as a pervasive concern within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It finds explicit expression in the goals 4 and 5 pertaining to reproductive and child health, child survival and reducing child mortality, reducing maternal mortality rate and increases the proportion of birth attendants by skilled health personnel’s. Goal 5 calls for reducing the rate of maternal mortality by 75 % by 2015.

11.10.2006 The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) of Nepal will, from next week, start various programmes to check Dengue.
The districts bordering India have a high risk of catching the disease.

11.10.2006 Altogether 800 people lost their lives due to tuberculosis in the year 2062-63 BS in Nepal.

11.10.2006 Some 20,000 people in the town of Balakot in Pakistan which was badly devastated in last October’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake, have been facing a severe shortage of clean water for the last month, according to local authorities.

11.10.2006 Ophthalmologists from the local hospital teamed up with doctors from Bangalore to conduct diabetic retinopathy screenings, Flourescein Angiograms and laser eye surgeries inside the mobile van.

11.10.2006 Ainakin 870 000 ihmistä maailmassa tekee vuosittain itsemurhan ja 450 miljoonaa muuta kärsii neurologisista tai käyttäytymiseen liittyvistä mielenterveysongelmista. YK kehotti Maailman mielenterveyspäivänä kiinnittämään entistä parempaa huomiota itsemurhien syihin ja niiden hoitoon.