Amid the bustling corridors of Dhaka’s hospitals, an invisible danger wafts silently through the air -- drug-resistant bacteria.
One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till yesterday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to four this year.
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.
Benapole Immigration Health Department today started to check the passengers travelling between India and Bangladesh as part of its initiative to prevent the spread of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV)
Two patients died from dengue while 70 others were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.
The influx of child patients suffering from pneumonia, winter diarrhoea and other cold-related diseases has been straining hospitals.
Unclean drains, scattered waste key contributors, say locals
Bangladesh saw no deaths from dengue in 24 hours, a first since June 29, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
India today confirmed a case of JN 1, a sub-variant of Covid-19 whose cases have surged in China and the United States, has been detected in the southern state of Kerala
However, public health experts are advising caution in interpreting the data
Despite December being a month which sees less dengue cases, the first 15 days of the month this year have seen 54 deaths and 6,722 cases.
At least two more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.
At least seven dengue patients, all from outside Dhaka, died in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.
At least seven more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease
At least four more people died from dengue in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease
