Month: March 2012

Geneva, 6 March ( EFE).-three years earlier of stipulations, has been fulfilling the goal of the Millennium goals ( MDGs) of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, concludes a report from Unicef and the World Organization of health ( who). The text, released today, reveals that between 1990 and 2010, more than 2,000 million people gained access to improved sources of drinking water, thanks to pipes or protected wells. According to the text – whose figures date from 2010 – 89% of the world’s population, about 6,100 million people, using improved drinking water sources, representing a 1% more than the figure that you pointed out the goal of the MDGs. The text authors estimate that by 2015, 92% of the world’s population have access to drinking water. “Access to drinking water is one of the most important health determinants”, and “reduce exponentially the risk of disease”, said at press conference the Director of public health and environment of who, Maria Neira. “More than 3,000 children die daily from causing diarrhoea and diseases which are transmitted by not having safe drinking water and adequate sanitation, are therefore essential elements for survival,” said the director of the Department of water and sanitation of the United Nations Fund for children (Unicef), Sanjay Wijesekera. turn Of the UN General Assembly established in 2010 that water and sanitation are...

Tokyo (Reuters) – A year after the nuclear crisis of Fukushima Prefecture, the Japan Government remains too slow to provide sanitary controls and information to citizens, leaving them confused and suspicious of authorities, said Human Rights Watch Tuesday. “A year later, we’re not really seeing basic health services in an accessible manner and we are not seeing people receive information accurate, coherent and not contradictory on a regular basis,” said Reuters Jane Cohen, researcher of the group for human rights based in New York. “People have to count at least accurate information in order to assess their situation based on real facts”. The tsunami that struck the coast of the Pacific Japan on March 11, 2011 devastated the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, located 240 km northeast of Tokyo, causing leakage of radiation that they contaminated land, air and water and forced to flee to tens of thousands of people. Since then, many of the inhabitants of the Fukushima Prefecture have been living with fear of the effects of radiation on their health. “There should be a plan clear and places to measure radiation around the world in Fukushima”, said Cohen, who studied the situation of the inhabitants. He suggested that the City Council could have to ask borrow medical equipment or bring more optional. The Government of the prefecture is providing medical check-ups for children and pregnant women,...

(Reuters) – some children may have problems with memory and attention until a year later of having suffered a concussion, a problem that can be linked to a lower quality of life and a higher risk of needing extra help at the school, according to an American study. A shock with big difference is the most common form of brain injury, increasingly receives more attention in the media, and million U.S. children suffer one every year, although many of them do not go to the hospital, said Keith Yeates, of the National Pediatric Hospital in Ohio, who worked on the study. “Our study sample very convincingly that the vast majority of children are doing very well after suffering a mild brain trauma,” said Yeates. “The not so good news is that there is a small group of children who have symptoms until a year after the injury”. In the study, which appeared in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Yeates and his companions continued to 186 children aged between eight and 15 years who came to the ER with a concussion. Children with brain lesions were more likely to have both “somatic” symptoms such as headache, fatigue and problems with balance, as cognitive symptoms such as lack of memory and attention problems. Somatic symptoms tended to decrease over time, but in some cases cognitive problems persisted, particularly in...