2 h. ago Health board accepts probable link between infections and hospital water system

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has been examining issues at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) and Royal Hospital for Children.

Science

3 h. ago Glasgow superhospital water system issues 'probably' infected patients, health board admits

The health board had repeatedly rejected bacteria in the water at the country's flagship hospital was the cause for some infections which led to patients' deaths.

Science

48 h. ago Lifeguard sucked into water park drain after diving to retrieve tourist's ring

Guilherme da Guerra Domingos, 24, was sector leader at Wet’n Wild water park in Itupeva, Brazil - his colleagues retrieved him from the water but he sadly died later in hospital

Politics

2 w. ago Sewage in drinking water blamed for deaths of at least 10 people in India’s ‘cleanest city’

Hundreds also hospitalised in Indore after public toilet built above drinking water pipeline appears to have let sewage into the supplySewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India’s “cleanest city” for the last eight years.Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city’s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Sewage in drinking water blamed for at least 10 deaths in India’s ‘cleanest city’

Hundreds hospitalised in Indore after public toilet built above water pipeline appears to have let sewage into supplySewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India’s “cleanest city” for the last eight years.Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city’s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Contaminated water kills at least 10 people in ‘cleanest Indian city’

Over 200 people in hospitals following baterial contamination of drinking water

Events