Cardiac Implants For Children: Top hospitals using unauthorised devices
Unauthorised companies are smuggling a number of cardiac medical devices into the country and selling those to some of Dhaka’s top public and private hospitals without proper vetting, raising questions about health regulations and patient safety.
29 September 2023, 18:00 PM
$27b health budget in the works
The government is preparing a $27 billion budget for the upcoming five-year health sector plan, up 52.5 percent from the ongoing programme that ends in June 2024.
26 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Of lost loved ones and incomplete goodbyes
Asrafullah Jamal, a dengue patient being treated at the capital’s Kurmitola General Hospital, had a difficult time bidding farewell to his son, Kazem Ashraf.
9 September 2023, 18:00 PM
A trip to Germany to learn fogging!
Experts have raised questions about a recent foreign trip by four government officials and a ward councillor to Germany to acquire skills in operating mosquito fogging machines.
3 September 2023, 18:00 PM
How others control dengue
In 2010, Kolkata city had faced its worst dengue outbreak -- an event that prompted the municipality to draw up a definitive plan to control the menace.
31 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Should Bangladesh try Wolbachia?
Many countries including Singapore, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Brazil are opting for the Wolbachia method for dengue control.
31 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Dengue Outbreak: Platelet kit crunch delaying treatment
Treatment of seriously ill dengue patients is being affected by an acute shortage of the kit needed to extract platelets from whole blood in a method that requires only a single donor.
29 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Neglected, they demand fair pay, promotions
It was 2021. Braving flooding in the Padma basin which disrupted daily life and rendered vast stretches of land uninhabitable in Manikganj, a group of local health workers toiled tirelessly to safeguard the health of children disregarding their own.
22 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Preventing the next outbreak
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.
2 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh needs to be self-sufficient in vaccine supply: Dr Firdausi
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.
23 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Foot-dragging at its best
Bureaucratic foot-dragging appears to be what Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) has done most of the time during the pandemic.
15 October 2021, 18:00 PM
1 in 4 elderly persons suffers from malnutrition
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.
1 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Cardiac care facilities fall far short of country’s needs
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.
28 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Child Death From ‘Negligence’: Family under pressure to compromise
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.
22 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Children 12 and above to get jabs
The government is planning to inoculate children aged 12 and above against Covid-19.
4 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Use of antibiotics rampant, careless
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.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid Testing at Govt Facilities: Result backlog a cause for alarm
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.
28 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid Field Hospital: BSMMU slows down expansion as virus infection drops
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.
19 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Fight Against Covid: Govt failing to engage people
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.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Delta on the rampage
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.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Hospitals stare at tougher time
The Covid pandemic has entered a phase where hospitals across the country are being pushed to their limits.
25 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Hospitals stretched to breaking point
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.
14 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Delta rages on through lockdown
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”.
11 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Nasal cannula crisis now proving fatal
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.
6 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid deaths galloping
The country continues to reel from the second wave of the pandemic as Covid-19 cases and deaths are rising on a daily basis.
5 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Public Hospitals in Districts: Oxygen supply under stress
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.
2 July 2021, 18:00 PM
A life lost for a vacant ICU
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.
26 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna seeing the worst of pandemic
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.
20 June 2021, 18:00 PM