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