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.
The health directorate has instructed all health officials outside the capital not to send any dengue patients to Dhaka for treatment.
At least 18 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
The health directorate has instructed all health officials across the country not to send any dengue patients to Dhaka from outside the capital for treatment
With 14 more deaths recorded yesterday, the total number of dengue fatalities has now crossed the 800-mark.
The mosquito-borne disease has so far claimed at least 790 lives this year
Says director general of Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR)
Authorities in India are scrambling to contain a rare outbreak of Nipah, a virus spread from animals to humans that causes deadly fever with a high mortality rate.
The disease has so far claimed at least 778 lives this year
At least 15 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.
