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.
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.
Approximately 2-3 children die every hour from pneumonia in Bangladesh, according to icddr,b
Of the 17 deaths, four were reported in the capital
At least seven more people died from dengue in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday as the country grapples with a record outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.
Of the deaths, three were reported in the capital
Of the deaths, seven were reported outside of the capital
Dengue has emerged as a year-round threat in recent years, in contrast to the common understanding that the mosquito-borne fever occurs mainly during the monsoon.
Despite a gradual decline in infection rates, the number of cases and fatalities remains alarmingly high, even as November begins
