A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Malek, formerly a driver of the Directorate General of Health Services, to five-year imprisonment and his wife Nargis Begum to three-year in jail for amassing illegal wealth...
Health services are almost absent in the jails across the country as only two doctors are posted against 141 vacant posts to attend 70,000 inmates in the 69 jails.
More than 90 per cent of people in the country thinks that the government must contain the 鈥榚xtremely high鈥� expenses for affording medicines, diagnostics, surgery and doctor鈥檚 fee by setting limits on their prices, according to the public opinion survey on health sector reform 2025...
A group of intern doctors and students from both government and private medical colleges submitted their demands to the Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday, calling for the use of the title 鈥榙octor鈥� to be reserved exclusive for those holding a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of聽 surgery (MBBS) degree and a bachelor of dental surgery (BDS) degree...
This year鈥檚 death toll from the mosquito-borne disease dengue surged past 500 on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...
At least six more people died of dengue and 882 affected were hospitalised in the past 24 hours till 8:00am on Sunday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services press release...
Seven more people died of dengue in the past 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising this year鈥檚 total deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 482...
THE proposition that 78 per cent of the dengue patients recorded as residents of Dhaka鈥檚 south city areas in hospital documents are from outside Dhaka is worrying on a couple of counts. This brings to the fore the weakness of the reporting mechanism put in place in hospitals. This also stands to frustrate any plan to fight against the disease. Above all else...
PROTESTERS injured during the student-mass uprising in July-August that toppled the autocratic Awami League government on August 5 having not received adequate support for treatment and rehabilitation from the interim government is unacceptable. About 30,000 people, including many students, were injured in the uprising while at least 708 died...
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...
Seven more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 297 this year...
At least six people died of dengue and 1,248 others were hospitalised across the country in the past 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the death from dengue infection to 277 so far this year...
AN INCREASING number of death from dengue infection may have been the result, as experts believe, of mutation in both the dengue virus and its vector 鈥� primarily, Aedes aegypti. As dengue virus has its genome based on ribonucleic acid which can mutate fast to adapt to adverse conditions, experts say that such...
At least two more people died of dengue and 490 others were hospitalised across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the number of death from...
THE death of at least 36 people from dengue in the past week and a large number of hospital admission testify to what entomologists warned earlier that dengue incidence would increase in late September and October. At least, eight people died of dengue and 1,017 others were admitted to hospital on October 2, taking the death from dengue infection to...
Eight more people died of dengue fever in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 158 this year.
The Directorate General of Health Services on Tuesday for the first time published a list of 708 deaths in the student-led mass uprising in July-August that forced deposed prime minister...
Professor MA Faiz has resigned from his position as the chair of the expert panel on health sector reforms formed by the interim government on September 3...
A total of 625 people have lost their lives and 18,380 have been injured during the student-led mass uprising, senior secretary MA Akmal Hossain Azad of the Health Services Division said on Wednesday.
One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning.
THE average daily hospital admission of patients with dengue, which in the first six days in September doubled the number in the corresponding days of August, suggests a potentially threatening outbreak of the disease and a general failure of the health and local government authorities concerned to control the dengue vector during the...
A RELAXED anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season in August has resulted in an increase in dengue death and infection. Both death and infection rates have doubled in August compared with that in June and July. At least 20 people died of dengue, as the Directorate General of Health Services says, and 4,041 were admitted to hospital in 21 days...
The hospitalisation rate from dengue infection and death rose sharply in August amid a relaxed anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season...
Doctors and staff members aligned with Bangladesh Nationalist Party demanded the resignation of the director general and other pro-Awami League officials of Directorate General of Health Services on Monday.
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 American Wellness Center has launched a new initiative to support students in response to the profound losses and financial hardships endured by many due to the anti-quota student movement, said a press release...
The High Court on Sunday severely criticised the Directorate General of Health Services for alleged corruption in the health sector.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against seven people, including former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services Professor Abul Kalam Azad and JKG Health Care chairperson Sabrina Sharmin Hossain, on charges of cheating people by preparing fake Covid-19 test reports...
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...
