The number of leprosy patients rose in Sylhet district in recent times amid inadequate treatment facilities.
Ageing is a natural and unavoidable phenomenon that brings with it various health challenges, including arthritis, memory loss, joint degeneration, lung fibrosis, and other complications.
During visits to various hospitals in the port city, pediatric wards were found filled beyond capacity. Many children were admitted with conditions such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and diarrhoea
Following instructions from the health ministry, a medical team, led by Md Jahangir Alam, a sub-assistant community medical officer from the upazila health complex, initiated its activities
The directives were issued one day after a case of HMPV virus was detected in the country
Amid the bustling corridors of Dhaka’s hospitals, an invisible danger wafts silently through the air -- drug-resistant bacteria.
At least one dengue patient died while 57 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.
All six radiotherapy machines of the NICRH have been out of order for 19 days, depriving over 200 cancer patients of their scheduled therapy every day.
The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has found the presence of reovirus for the first time in Bangladesh.
In the first 22 days in November, the country has already witnessed over 123 deaths and 23,009 dengue cases, showing an alarming trend this year.
With a cannula in her right hand, three-and-half-year-old Madeya Momtaz was receiving treatment while lying on a bed in the pneumonia ward of Dhaka Shishu Hospital.
One more dengue patient died while 201 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till yesterday morning.
Two more dengue patients died and 14 were hospitalised in the 24 hours till yesterday morning.
Eight dengue patients died, while 765 were admitted to hospitals across the country yesterday.
There has been a sudden increase in conjunctivitis (inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye) patients in Chattogram city for over two weeks.
Twenty-four dengue patients have died so far in the country, of whom, 21 died in the last eight months.
August witnessed 3,551 dengue cases, more than double the number recorded in July. This indicates that the dengue situation is further deteriorating.
