New Delhi: Lauding India’s effort towards safe sanitation services, World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said that Swachh Bharat Mission can avert up to 3 lakh deaths due to diarrhoea and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) by October 2019. As the initial results of a WHO modelling study on the health impact[Read More…]
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Hunger haunts Jharkhand while authorities deny
Jharkhand: Lemon peels in warm water pass for finger bowls in your local restaurant are dinner for Sitala and her three children. On a good day, they can relish some salt with it. The family in Sevatand village of Jharkhand’s Giridih district is on the brink of starvation. But, unfortunately,[Read More…]
Modi wants scientists to spend time with students
Imphal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged scientists “to spend 100 hours a year” with school students to teach them various aspects of science. Modi made the remarks after inaugurating the five-day Indian Science Congress at the Manipur University here. “I appeal to the scientists to spend at least[Read More…]
UP: Deaths of 96 children confirmed in Saifai Medical University
Deaths of 96 children have been confirmed by the vice chancellor of the Medical University in Uttar Pradesh. Vice-Chancellor, T. Prabhakar, said that the children died because of excessive workload and malnutrition. He cited the shortage of beds and doctors at the hospital as the main reason for the death[Read More…]
Jharkhand: Over 60 children die in govt hospital in last 30 days
People are still mourning the deaths of over in 100 children in Gorakhpur‘s BRD Medical College, while a similar incident has gripped a government hospital in Jharkhand. The only government and perhaps the biggest hospital in Kolhan, MGM Hospital, has witnessed the deaths of at least 64 children in the[Read More…]
Poverty, lack of education and malnutrition are big challenges: PM Modi
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Wednesday has asked people to take a pledge to free country from problems such as communalism, casteism and corruption and create a ‘new India’ by 2022, on the occasion 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement. PM saluted all those who took part in the[Read More…]
India is home to the world’s largest number of stunted children: Report
According to a new study published on Tuesday, India is home to the world’s largest number of stunted children. The report says that around 48 million children or two in every five children under the age of five years in India are stunted. Stunting is a form of malnutrition in[Read More…]