Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

At the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014, member states of World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to strengthen palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course. However, this patient-focused approach is still under-addressed.

At least 10 types of bacteria have become more resistant to 17 life-saving antibiotics used for treating patients with infectious diseases across the country, according to a new government study.

Shakhawat Hossain (52) has been bedridden for the last three months, due to a surgery on his left toe on August 19 this year. A week before the surgery, he had an injury in the toe caused by a treenail. As he is a diabetic patient, since 2014, medication did not work on the injury and there was no option other than surgery.

Untreated medical wastes are accumulating at landfills in seven divisional cities, posing serious threat to public health.

A project by the health ministry to establish a national institute for laboratory medicine, that was approved in 2010 with a three-year deadline, will be up for approval for a fifth time extension at today’s meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec).

“One in every four coronary care unit admission in hospitals in Middle Eastern countries are from this sub-continent. And Bangladesh is on the top among the countries of this sub-continent,” said Dr Chaudhury Meshkat Ahmed, professor of cardiology department in BSMMU.

When Dalia Amin left her Gendaria house in the capital for Saudi Arabia on July 10 last year, her eyes were on a better, secure life for her two-year-old son, her husband as well as for herself.

Upon assurance from government high-ups, employees of 270 municipalities postponed their indefinite strike yesterday. Since July 14, they have been staging a sit-in in front of Jatiya Press Club, demanding arrears and regular payment from state coffers.

Minhaz Uddin was one of over a thousand fishermen who earned a living by fishing in a five-kilometre stretch of the Dhaleshwari river, from Fulbaria to Vakurta downstream.

A lack of discipline in spending and hiring employees is the main reason behind the piling up of Tk 692 crore in salary arrears at municipalities across the country, a government committee has found.

Showing symptoms of dengue, Kazi Jabunnahar, 29, went to a nearby private hospital from her Banasree house about two weeks ago.

Rabiul Islam completed his diploma in Architecture and Interior Design from Kurigram Polytechnic Institute in December 2015, but he is still to get a decent job.

Thirteen percent of the deaths of females aged between 15 and 49 occur due to maternal causes, including haemorrhage and abortion-related complications, says a government survey released recently.

In a push to widen the social safety net, the government decided to include all registered differently abled people, and more marginalised and vulnerable ones under its protection.

The government is going to allocate Tk 200 crore to pay a portion of the arrears of workers and officials of state-owned jute mills ahead of the Eid, officials said yesterday.

On September 7, 2015, the cabinet approved the eighth national pay scale effective from July that year, and it has been implemented in al-most all government offices and corporations.

Arifun Nahar gave birth to her 3rd child on December 16 at a private hospital in Dhaka but her baby boy fell sick soon after and eventually died 28 days after birth. The cause of his sudden death was an otherwise harmless bacterium -- Klebsiella pneumoniae -- that turned deadly, possibly in hospital, by being resistant to 15 types of antibiotics.

Seventeen-year-old Mehedi Hasan was diagnosed with skin cancer at a Natore hospital in December 2017 and was referred to the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital.

Farmers in the northeastern backswamps are on the brink of facing another flash flood as the construction and maintenance works of “around 50 percent” Haor protection embankments have not been completed within the given timeline.

Nothing can console Rupa Begum. She lost her two-and-a-half year old son in a fire at Bhasantek slum in Dhaka's Mirpur area early yesterday. Her only child drowned in a ditch inside the slum when the occupants were fleeing from the flames.