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.
At least 10 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.
Of the deaths, eight were reported in the capital
Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe, and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO's chief scientist said, as warmer temperatures create the conditions for the mosquitoes carrying the infection to spread
At least nine 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.
Entire Barishal division is now facing an emergency situation amid dengue outbreak.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has sought the advice of the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) on the use of dengue vaccine in the country
