New Delhi: Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared Rs 4,000-crore joint action plan for tackling Japanese Encephalitis. CNN-IBN had reported how over 400 people died of encephalitis this year. The GoM had in November last year made certain recommendations for tackling the deadly virus which has affected over 6,300 persons across the country till September. The authorities have so far not been able to identify the virus in the worst affected states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Among some of the recommendations made by the GoM are provision of safe drinking water to the affected persons by replacing shallow tubewells with deep tubewells and providing proper sanitation facilities in high-risk districts, besides setting up improved health facilities and step-up of vaccination of children in the area.
The GoM also recommended the provision of improved health management systems to tackle JE/AES, improve nutrition of the affected people and undertake their rehabilitation, besides helping people in affected areas to find alternative means of livelihood for pig-rearing population and set up special schools for mentally challenged children.
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06:36 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: After a sustained campaign by CNN-IBN, the government seems to have finally woken up to encephalitis. The Cabinet will take up the issue of prevention and control of Japanese encephalitis in a meeting on Thursday. So far, over 400 children have died across Uttar Pradesh due to this dreaded disease. The government has been a mute spectator with little being done to prevent or control it. CNN-IBN had...
04:21 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Gorakhpur: Seven more children died of encephalitis in the last 24 hours in Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll to 372. CNN-IBN had learnt that nearly Rs 3350 crore was sanctioned by the government to battle the outbreak but with no improvement in the condition it seems the money never reached to those who needed it the most. After CNN-IBN highlighted the plight of the victims...
12:15 AM, Oct 07, 2012
Gorakhpur: Two children succumbed to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll in the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh this year to 159. The children, who hailed from Gorakhpur and Kushinagar districts, died at the hospital on Monday, health officials said on Tuesday. A total of 838 encephalitis patients were admitted to different government hospitals of Gorakhpur and Basti division this year of which...
11:24 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Gorakhpur: Junior doctors at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur have called off their two-day strike after assurance from authorities that their demands for better security and facilities will be met. Medical services were restored on Friday at the hospital, grappling with the influx of Encephalitis patients from eastern UP, after the strike was called of last night. The strike was called off after District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar and...
11:04 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Gorakhpur: Doctors at the BRD Medical College in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur where encephalitis patients are being treated have gone on a strike. One hundred and fifty resident doctors went on strike after a patient's family reportedly roughed up one of the doctors. The doctors are demanding better security for themselves. The strike comes at a time when Gorakhpur is reeling from an outbreak of encephalitis. At least 500 children have...
04:07 PM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: A CNN IBN investigation has found that despite warnings of an encephalitis crisis were given as early as in the first week of September, the health ministry and the minister sat on the report. In the BRD medical college in Gorakhpur, 500 children have died of encephalitis in the last 2 months, 10 in the last 48 hours alone. Could the health minister of the country Gulam Nabi...
09:41 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Gorakhpur: Nine more people succumbed to encephalitis, taking the death count in the brain fever to 465 so far this year in Uttar Pradesh's eastern region, health officials said in Gorakhpur on Wednesday. Four encephalitis patients from Gorakhpur, two each from Kushinagar and Deoria and one from Mahrajganj succumbed to the illness in the last two days, they said. With this, the death toll due to the viral disease rose...
01:35 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Many vacant beds at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College are found to be occupied by stray dogs. ...
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