Unauthorised companies are smuggling a number of cardiac medical devices into the country and selling those to some of Dhaka’s top public and private hospitals without proper vetting, raising questions about health regulations and patient safety.
The government is preparing a $27 billion budget for the upcoming five-year health sector plan, up 52.5 percent from the ongoing programme that ends in June 2024.
Asrafullah Jamal, a dengue patient being treated at the capital’s Kurmitola General Hospital, had a difficult time bidding farewell to his son, Kazem Ashraf.
Experts have raised questions about a recent foreign trip by four government officials and a ward councillor to Germany to acquire skills in operating mosquito fogging machines.
In 2010, Kolkata city had faced its worst dengue outbreak -- an event that prompted the municipality to draw up a definitive plan to control the menace.
Many countries including Singapore, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Brazil are opting for the Wolbachia method for dengue control.
Treatment of seriously ill dengue patients is being affected by an acute shortage of the kit needed to extract platelets from whole blood in a method that requires only a single donor.
It was 2021. Braving flooding in the Padma basin which disrupted daily life and rendered vast stretches of land uninhabitable in Manikganj, a group of local health workers toiled tirelessly to safeguard the health of children disregarding their own.
Locally produced oilseeds like mustard, corn, sunflower, coconut, and sesame (teel) can be some great alternatives to soybean and palm oil, said Prof Nazma Shaheen of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science at Dhaka University.
The country’s initiative to build a vaccine plant and research centre of its own is losing steam apparently with the intensity of the pandemic waning.
The government should take precautionary measures to prevent a fresh surge in the number of coronavirus cases during the Eid vacation, suggested experts.
Over the last two years, the government has been able to utilise only around 15 percent of Tk 8,150 crore allocated for two Covid-19 emergency response projects.
Nearly 121 million pregnancies globally are unintended, among which 60 percent end up in abortion. In Bangladesh, around 59 out of each 1,000 pregnancies are unintended, reveals a report.
Dhaka Wasa managing director said he gets foul-smelling tap water at home too but assured that it was harmless.
A cholera outbreak seems to have returned to the city and is being transmitted by the Wasa water supply system.
Drugs that used to successfully fight diseases are gradually becoming ineffective due to decades of malpractice: intake of over-prescribed or self-prescribed medicines.
Diarrhoea has broken out in at least 10 areas of the capital as more and more patients are being admitted to different hospitals.
People aged between 30 and 60 with the deficiency of an enzyme – Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase – are at least 14 times at higher risk of developing diabetes than those without deficiency, finds a study.
