Healthcare around the world is going through unique and dynamic changes.

The drinking water crisis in Sitakunda has been worsening as over 7,000 tube wells have become dysfunctional due to the fall of the groundwater layer amid scorching heat.

As many as 1,379 diarrhoea patients were admitted to International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) in 24 hours (till 12am today).

A cholera outbreak seems to have returned to the city and is being transmitted by the Wasa water supply system.

International Centre for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) in Dhaka has been struggling to cope with the record number of diarrhoea patients for the last one week.

With the arrival of summer, the number of diarrhoea patients in and around the capital has gone up steeply this month compared to last month.

With a heat wave sweeping across the country, several hundred diarrhoea patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country.

Over 2.14 crore children, aged between six months and five years, will be fed Vitamin A-plus capsules under a national campaign on November 14.

The district town sees spread of diarrhoea during the last couple of days.