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Respiratory tract infections – 125437<br />

Pneumonia – 14272 cases<br />

Radiation safety – sources of radiation include x-ray machines, computer,<br />

cell phones and natural radiation from ultra violet rays from the sun. The<br />

levels from all these sources are not very high as to cause significant<br />

cancerous effects.<br />

• Occupational health and safety<br />

Issues related to health and safety are not well addressed in the <strong>District</strong>.<br />

Residents working in Tea and coffee factories, welding, hospitals, farm<br />

laborers who do spraying of farm crops such as coffee, fruit orchards etc and<br />

people engaged in vector control activities need to be informed on the safety<br />

and health issues that they may be exposed in these occupations.<br />

Enforcement of relevant laws relating to occupational health and safety needs<br />

to be enhanced.<br />

Table 11: Incidence (number of cases) of common environmentally related diseases<br />

i) Malaria<br />

Year No. of cases Remarks<br />

1997 150972<br />

1998 151511<br />

1999 149418<br />

2000 120012<br />

2001 132738<br />

2002 105511<br />

2003 148093<br />

2004 178311<br />

2005 210066<br />

Source: Public Health Department<br />

From the table, Malaria incidences appear to be generally increasing<br />

Figure 1: Trends of Malaria infection (1997-2003)<br />

200000<br />

150000<br />

100000<br />

50000<br />

0<br />

1997 1999 2001 2003<br />

Malaria<br />

trend<br />

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