scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF INADEQUATE ACCESS TO POTABLE WATER ON THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WA MUNICIPALITY OF GHANA

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Nkrumah ◽  
Yaw Frimpong ◽  
Adubofour Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
World Health ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The People ◽  
Potable Water Supply ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Wa Municipality

Accessibility to safe drinking water is regarded as a fundamental human right since it is essential to preserving healthy livelihoods and the basic human dignity of all human beings. The study examined the effect of inadequate potable water supply on the health of the people in the Wa Municipality of Ghana. Findings of the study revealed that water related diseases are very common in the municipality due to the inadequate supply of potable water. About 55% of respondents, mentioned schistosomiasis as the top disease burden in the area. Again, the analysis of data on water provision and accessibility in the study suggested that most of the residents of the Municipality precisely 69.2% covered distances more than the standard distance of 1km stipulated by World Health Organization in search for potable water. The impacts of the time spent and distance traveled to acquire water in the Municipality were largely experienced by children and women, owing to the fact that in Ghana, water collection is considered to be the primary duty of children and women. Based on the findings the study recommends that more boreholes should be provided in the Wa Municipality to enable the residents have easy access to potable water supply. KEYWORDS: Ghana, Wa Municipality, Potable water accessibility.

scholarly journals Microbial and Chemical Risk Assessment of River Bukuruwa Used as Drinking Water by Farming Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Isaac Ofori ◽  
John A. Larbi ◽  
Amina Abubakari ◽  
Matthew G. Addo ◽  
Godwin Essiaw-Quayson
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
World Health ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Salmonella Spp ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Chemical Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Water is very vital for the sustenance of life and according to World Health Organization; potable water should be free from any health risk. However due to in adequate supply of potable water, many rural dwellers have no choice but to depend on streams and rivers as source of drinking water which becomes the vehicle for the transmission of infections due to a host of microorganisms both pathogenic and non-pathogenic present in these water bodies. This study therefore quantified and assessed the microorganisms present in river Bukuruwa in Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Water was aseptically collected into sterile sampling bottles with caps and analyzed in the laboratory through standard microbiological protocols. Microbial organisms such as Feacal coliforms, E.coli and Salmonella spp. as well as physicochemical parameters such as pH, conductivity, turbidity, Sulphate (SO42-), Fluoride (F-), Phosphates (PO43-), Nitrites (NO2-) and Nitrates (NO3-) were quantified and assessed, respectively. The highest load of faecal coliforms in the river water at a point in this study was found to be 9 x 102 per 100 ml and pH values ranging from 5.31 to 6.84 with variations within the sampling points. The observational survey revealed human beings competing with farm animals for the same source of water and again farming activities were carried out very close to the river banks which may increase the chance of infections which needs serious attention by policy makers and implementers.

Securing Potable Water Supply under Extreme Scarcity

10.1596/30593 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Marin ◽  
Bambos Charalambous ◽  
Thierry Davy
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Potable Water Supply

The relevance of dietetic approach of Ayurveda from the perspective of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 748-752
Author(s):  
Swapnali Khabade ◽  
Bharat Rathi ◽  
Renu Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
World Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Individual

A novel, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causes severe acute respiratory syndrome and spread globally from Wuhan, China. In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the SARS-Cov-2 virus as a COVID- 19, a global pandemic. This pandemic happened to be followed by some restrictions, and specially lockdown playing the leading role for the people to get disassociated with their personal and social schedules. And now the food is the most necessary thing to take care of. It seems the new challenge for the individual is self-isolation to maintain themselves on the health basis and fight against the pandemic situation by boosting their immunity. Food organised by proper diet may maintain the physical and mental health of the individual. Ayurveda aims to promote and preserve the health, strength and the longevity of the healthy person and to cure the disease by properly channelling with and without Ahara. In Ayurveda, diet (Ahara) is considered as one of the critical pillars of life, and Langhana plays an important role too. This article will review the relevance of dietetic approach described in Ayurveda with and without food (Asthavidhi visheshaytana & Lanhgan) during COVID-19 like a pandemic.

Dietary and living regimen of covid-19 with special reference to Ayurveda Varsha and Sharad Ritucharya

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 758-762
Author(s):  
Amit Biswas ◽  
KunalChandankhede
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
World Health ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Dietary Regimen ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Disease Free ◽  
Individual Disease ◽  
Morbid Conditions

Wuhan originated Covid-19 disease is caused by SARC-COV 2 virus. It is a contagious disease it spread all over the world. World health organization declared a global pandemic disease. In Covid-19 immunity plays an important role. In old age people or having other co-morbid conditions the mortality rate is more. Ayurveda has a big role in improved immunity or to intact immunity. The principle of Ayurveda is to keep individual swastha (diseases free). To maintain individual disease-free Ritucharya is one of the important subjects of Ayurveda. Aimed of study is to find out Ritucharya literature from the Ayurveda and modern research specifically Varsha and Sharad ritu. Ritucharya contains dietary regimen, living modification, common medicine, and contraindicated things those changing according to environmental change. Upcoming season in India is Varsha and Sharad ritu. Environmental changes are huge in this season and it directly affected human beings. So this study reveals property of ritu, dietary regimen, living modification, common medicine and contraindicated things in upcoming varsha and sharad ritu.

An Efficient Approach for Detection and Verification of Infected Cases of Covid-19 Virus through Block Chain: A Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanika Gupta ◽  
Aatif Jamshed
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
World Health ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization

: Some unknown cases of pneumonia were communicated to World Health Organization (WHO) on 31 December,2019 in China’s Wuhan state. The higher authorities of China informed novel coronavirus as the root cause and labelled as “nCov-2019”. This virus is lying into the virus’s family which propagates the diseases like cold flu, lungs infection and more serious diseases. It is not detected earlier in human beings as it is considered to be a new patch on life. Many countries have increased their surveillance forces around the globe to detect any new novel coronavirus cases. An efficient and safe network for secure data storage i.e. Block chain is used in several applications such as food market, healthcare applications, finance, operations management, Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, with the use of this emerging technology, are able to track useful information and accelerate the treatment process of patients. It also preserves the person’s identity. Correct implementation of block chain model has the chances to restrict the coronavirus transmissions and its related mortality rate where there are inadequate facilities of testing. Other infectious diseases will also be curbed by this model. The advantages of this model can reach to various stakeholders who are involved in the healthcare field which helps us to restrict the transmission of various diseases.

ARIMA model for forecasting COVID-19 Death cases in India (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeya Sutha M
Keyword(s):  
Arima Model ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Death Cases

UNSTRUCTURED COVID-19, the disease caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a highly contagious disease. On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization declared the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. As of July 25, 2020; 15,947,292 laboratory-confirmed and 642,814 deaths have been reported globally. India has reported 1,338,928 confirmed cases and 31,412 deaths till date. This paper presents different aspects of COVID-19, visualization of the spread of infection and presents the ARIMA model for forecasting the status of COVID-19 death cases in the next 50 days in order to take necessary precaution by the Government to save the people.

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