-BBC India has "never been closer" to wiping out Polio, India's health minister has declared as he marked World Polio Day. There have been no new cases for more than nine months, making it the longest Polio-free period since the global eradication campaign was launched. The only case reported this year was in the state of West Bengal in January. There were 39 cases reported over a similar period in 2010. India is one...
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India accounts for 22% of global rotavirus-inducted diarrhoea deaths by Kounteya Sinha
India recorded 98,621 rotavirus-inducted diarrhoea deaths in 2008, which is about 22% of global toll from the infection. Nigeria - the second worst-hit country - recorded about 41,000 deaths, or less than 50% of fatalities as compared to India. Pakistan (39,000) and Bangladesh (9,000) figures among the top 10 worst-affected nations grappling with rotavirus infection, says a study that appeared in medical journal, "The Lancet Infectious Diseases". It shows 453,000 deaths occurred...
More »‘Endgame’ for Polio by GS Mudur
India will henceforth treat even a single case of Polio anywhere in the country as a public health emergency requiring unprecedented rapid response, the health ministry announced today after the longest Polio-free period in the country. Health authorities have so far detected a single patient with paralysis caused by the wild Polio virus this year ---- from Howrah in Bengal on January 13 ----- according to the latest counts from the...
More »An exercise in undercounting the poor by Brinda Karat
The impending BPL Census exercise will not help the poor; on the contrary, it will further deny them a fair share in national resources. The BPL, or Below Poverty Line, Census 2011 for the rural areas will start in select States this month. In a country such as India with vast numbers of the poor, counting the poor often becomes an exercise in undercounting and dividing them, to suit the wholly...
More »Man seeks quota for son under RTE Act
-The Times of India Delhi high court has sought a reply from the Delhi government and the education director on a physically challenged person's plea seeking amendment in the RTE Act to include a quota for the children of such people. HC issued notices to the authorities concerned on a petition filed by one Hilal Haider praying that there were deficiencies in the RTE Act that needed clarification. On his...
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