Unicef launched a USD 5 million programme in India for providing zinc supplementation and oral rehydration therapy to contain diarrhoea in children, officials associated with the project said ...

Unicef Canada and Teck, a mineral company, launched the new program that will save over 150,000 children's lives in India. Vaccination for Children Vaccines are biological products that impart ...

ORS is a special liquid mixture of water, electrolytes including sodium and potassium, and carbohydrates usually in the form ...

WHO and UNICEF recommends ORS solution containing 75 mEq/l of sodium with a low osmolarity of 245 mOsm/l. ... In India, doctors had already realised the futility of IV drips to treat diarrhea.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have announced a new formula for the preparation of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) that is designed to minimize the occurrence of acute diarrhoeal disease.

It is an adequate glucose-electrolyte solution called the Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) solution. It was first used in 1969, and then a new solution has been recommended by the WHO and the UNICEF ...

The lives of over 150,000 children in the country could be saved by a $5-million-programme launched in India by UNICEF-Canada and Teck under the Zinc Alliance for Child Health(ZACH). The five-year ...

Researchers studied ORS prescription among 2,282 providers in two areas in India: Karnataka, which has above-average per capita income and above-average use of oral rehydration salts; and Bihar ...

Around 50 lakh children (80 per anganwadi centre) will benefit from the initiative. The MoU was signed on Friday. PATNA: On the eve of Diwali, the government of Bihar and Unicef signed a ...

Bihar is one of the poorest states in India with below-average ORS use, while Karnataka has above-average per capita income and above-average ORS use. “The researchers then hired staff who were ...

Mekak, 11, sits with her grandmother near a community toilet in Mumbai, India. UNICEF and partners are working to sustain urban sanitation and hygiene preparedness in schools during the COVID-19 ...

UNICEF India’s video campaign is an attempt to curb public defecation -- by employing a catchy song. In it, a man is awakened by the need to have a bowel movement and is chased.