Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

After the avian influenza virus, popularly known as bird flu, first broke out from Biman Poultry Complex in Dhaka’s Savar on March 15, 2007, over 16 lakh chickens, raised in commercial farms across the country, died during the following year.

Bangladesh needs to attain self-sufficiency in vaccine supply as soon as possible to combat Covid-19 and any future public health emergencies, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner scientist Dr Firdausi Qadri has said.

Bureaucratic foot-dragging appears to be what Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) has done most of the time during the pandemic.

One in every four elderly people, aged 60 and above, are suffering from malnutrition, and over half of all elderly people are at risk of developing malnutrition, revealed a study.

At around 10:30am on September 22, a noisy crowd of people were seen standing in queues in front of the ticket counter of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD), eagerly awaiting an appointment with one of 12 physicians at its outdoor department.

A family has allegedly been under pressure for a compromise, after they complained that their 11-month-old baby had died due to “sheer negligence” by doctors and staffers of a private hospital.

The government is planning to inoculate children aged 12 and above against Covid-19.

A study has revealed that costly antibiotics are being prescribed injudiciously for treating Covid patients at hospitals, which could lessen effectiveness of the lifesaving drugs in killing bacteria.

Medics took Asma Begum’s nasal swab at a hospital in Sirajganj to get her tested for coronavirus on August 10. But the 55-year-old woman has yet to formally get the result.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University authorities have slowed down the expansion of their Covid-19 field hospital as fewer new cases are being detected in recent days.

Lack of instructions from government high-ups and coordination between different government bodies has left in a shambles the move to ensure community engagement in the fight against Covid-19.

About 44 percent of the Covid deaths and around 40 percent of the infections so far were recorded in less than three months after the detection of the Delta variant in the country on May 8, shows the health directorate data.

The Covid pandemic has entered a phase where hospitals across the country are being pushed to their limits.

As the Delta variant continues to spread and the number of critical coronavirus patients keeps rising in hospitals, the country faces the bleak prospect of running out of Covid-dedicated beds, especially those in ICUs.

Officials reported 230 deaths from Covid-19 yesterday, the highest ever single-day toll in the country, which is facing a bleak reality as the prevalence of the more contagious Delta variant increases despite the “strict lockdown”.

The deaths of at least 16 Covid-19 patients at hospitals across the country last week, reportedly due to a shortage of oxygen, shone a light on the extent of the oxygen crisis.

The country continues to reel from the second wave of the pandemic as Covid-19 cases and deaths are rising on a daily basis.

Medical oxygen supply to public hospitals in at least two divisions has come under severe strain as its demand doubled amid a surge in Covid patients requiring the life-saving gas over the past few weeks.

Getting no space at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Salimullah Medical College Hospital (SMCH), relatives of Salma Akter (26) brought her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday noon.

With the Covid situation worsening further in Khulna division, the health directorate yesterday reported 82 deaths from the virus all over the country -- the highest in the past seven weeks.