AN ALARMING increase in the number of people with diabetes, especially young people, warrants a comprehensive government approach to head off any likely burden on public health. Research show that, especially, Type 2 diabetes, which is usually evident in people aged more than 40 years, is increasing in children and young people, pushing up the...
The line director at the Department of Non communicable Disease Control Programme of the Directorate General of Health Service, Professor Mohammad Robed Amin, has been made the acting director general of the DGHS...
THE pre-monsoon mosquito survey of the Directorate General of Health Services that has found a high density of Aedes mosquito in Dhaka is worrying. This suggests the failure of mosquito control programmes. Dengue prevention efforts of the south city authorities, as the survey finds...
PUBLIC health policies are designed more for health services delivery, especially in the management of non-communicable diseases, than for health protection and prevention. Experts, therefore, at a workshop that research and advocacy organisation PROGGA...