Bangladesh healthcare
The alarming state of private healthcare
Licence renewal failures are undermining healthcare integrity
11 May 2025, 06:25 AM
The silent emergency: Politicisation of our healthcare sector
The erosion of trust in doctors is creating crisis for the healthcare sector.
8 May 2025, 04:00 AM
To reverse medical tourism, we must strengthen local healthcare
Inadequate facilities, irregularities driving many patients abroad
23 December 2024, 08:08 AM
Patient Referral System: Still elusive after all these years
In 2014, then health minister Mohammad Nasim at an event in Rangpur Medical College Hospital officially announced the inception of a patient referral system for Rangpur division.
23 January 2023, 01:00 AM
Why Bangladesh should invest in health information technology
Bangladesh falls short in leadership and commitment to improving the healthcare system.
30 November 2022, 18:06 PM
Should we worry about a typhoid outbreak?
Authorities must remain careful, ensure supply of clean water
24 October 2022, 04:49 AM
Sorry state of a chest clinic
Nur Alom stood in front of the squalid tin-roof building and wondered if he had made a mistake, travelling all the way from his village in Bagerhat to the Chest Disease Clinic in Khulna city.
17 September 2022, 02:50 AM
GSK shuts factory after six decades
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, has decided to close its medicine manufacturing unit in Bangladesh after over six decades of operation.
26 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshis seeking diagnosis added to Indian medical visa
In a bid to give access to medical diagnosis facilities, India relaxes its medical visa for Bangladesh nationals.
17 April 2017, 12:22 PM