-Down to Earth Food poisoning cases in Bihar, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been highest in the last 6 years Some 979 school students have suffered food poisoning after eating mid-day meals in the first nine months of 2022, according to government data. The data has been collected by the Union government under the Integrated DISEase Surveillance Programme (IDSP), a major health programme that is part of the National Health Mission. Some 120 students...
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Mid-day Meal-Related Food Poisoning Cases at 6 Year Peak: CAG -Sabrang India
-Sabrang India/ Newsclick.in An audit by CAG blame poor infrastructure, insufficient inspections, irregular licensing and limited reporting. The Hindu reports that as schools re-opened and students returned to the classroom -two years after the pandemic -- serious cases of food poisoning due to the consumption of mid-day meals have resurfaced, and even grown. In the last 90 days alone as many as 120 students suffered from food poisoning across schools in Karnataka,...
More »A census is not about counting sheep -Seema Chishti
-The Hindu The Census in India is about many things — it must be made a priority and used to affirm a sense of comradeship Among the best uses of a census anywhere in the world was perhaps what happened in the United States when, in 1850 and 1860, anti-slavery campaigners used numbers from two consecutive national censuses to build support for the abolition of slavery. They showed the number of enslaved...
More »More Than Half of Deaths in India Are Due to Cancer, Diabetes, Heart and Respiratory DISEases
-TheWire.in Noncommunicable DISEases cause not only morbidity and mortality but also significantly impact economies because they limit the ability of people to work, a WHO report said. New Delhi: Noncommunicable DISEases (NCDs) contribute to 66% of all deaths occurring in India, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has found. NCDs, as the name suggests, are DISEases that are not passed from one person to another and are mostly lifestyle-related. The major NCDs are...
More »Non-communicable DISEases cause nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world: WHO report -Sneha Mordani
-India Today Non-communicable DISEases like heart DISEase, cancer, diabetes, and lung DISEase cause more deaths than infectious DISEases globally, according to a WHO report. Nearly three-quarters of all deaths in the world are caused by non-communicable DISEases such as heart DISEase, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illnesses and 17 million people under the age of 70 die of NCDs every year, according to a report by the World Health Organisation. The WHO report, released...
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