It’s not lack of awareness or new technologies or tests, a former US cancer specialist says, but affordability, access, and quality of care are the challenges that women face in Bangladesh when they suffer from breast cancer.“Quality of care is…
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WHO meet negotiates text on engagement with non-State actors
Geneva (K M Gopakumar) – An informal meeting of World Health Organization Member States to negotiate the Framework of Engagement with Non-state Actors (FENSA) text begins on Monday 19 October The 3-day meeting is being held at the WHO Headquarters…
60% kidney diseases can be prevented by raising awareness
STAFF REPORTER Speakers at a seminar yesterday said that where both the government and the private sector organizations cannot treat only five percent of kidney patients, it is possible to prevent at least 60 percent kidney diseases only by raising…
Doctor who practices both surgery and Ayurveda
This is unthinkable in Bangladesh that a doctor with an MBBS degree will also prescribe alternative medicines. But this is not rare in the world.An Indian doctor Sebastian Mathew migrated to Austria 30 years ago after passing medical college, and…
Maintain ethics in marketing hospitals:BSMMU vice-chancellor
Organisations representing foreign hospitals must adhere to certain “ethical values”, Prof Kamrul Hassan Khan has said since many Bangladeshi patients are being misled to seek treatment outside the country.The vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) was speaking in…
Shake, shake, shake your NPH insulin pen before injecting
A warning for people who use insulin pens: Not shaking your NPH insulin pen before injecting can result in wide variations in your insulin level and blood sugar control, researchers from Italy report. NPH insulin comes as an insoluble mixture…
Apollo Hospital fined Tk 16 lakh for selling unapproved drugs
Dhaka – A mobile court seized unregistered 51 types of medicines worth around Tk 10 lakh from the pharmacy of Apollo hospital and fined the hospital Tk 16 lakh on the charge of selling the unapproved medicines on Tuesday.
Yunus launches Devi Shetty’s Health City, Cancer Hospital in Mysore
Nobel laureate Professor Yunus inaugurated Centenary Celebrations at University of Mysore by delivering Centennial Lecture at University. It was celebrated as the beginning university’s year-long Centenary Celebrations. This year the university, with over 1,00,000 students, is completing its 100 years.…
Grameen Eye Hospital starts functioning at Thakurgaon
Grameen Eye Hospital Thakurgaon launched activities in its own 22 thousand square-feet two-storied hospital building on 28 August 2015. The hospital started with10 beds. The building has provision to expand eventually to a six-story building with 100 beds. Grameen Eye…
SAU Convocation Nov 16
Convocation is marked as a great event in the university academic calendar. It’s a special occasion to bring together the Graduates and the Academics. For the graduating students it’s a time to celebrate their accomplishment in front of their friends…
Web-based kala-aza surveillance launched
A web-based surveillance system has been introduced in the country to track the potentially fatal, parasitic disease kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) with technical…
How Bangladesh achieved its “amazing” health statistics
An IRIN News Article In health terms, Bangladesh is a “positive deviant”, performing far better, given its widespread poverty, than anyone could have expected. The London-based medical journal, The Lancet, recently published a series exploring Bangladesh’s surprising success, calling it…
World Health Worker Week
World Health Worker Week 2015 is being observed throughout the world from 5 to 11 April. World Health Worker Week is an opportunity to mobilize communities, partners, and policy makers in support of health workers. The health workers actually operates…
Sikder employee arrested for assaulting journo
Police on Thursday arrested Abu Sufian, an employee of ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College Hospital, on charge of assaulting Prothom Alo reporter Shishir Morol. Police arrested Sufian, a telephone operator of the hospital, in the afternoon. Hospital sources said the…
Conspiracy on to destabilise health sector: Nasim
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday alleged that a particular quarter is conspiring to destabilise the country’s health sector in a bid to put the government into trouble. “Those who’ve failed to assume power are now active to put the…
Saima for local effective mechanism to manage autism
Saima Wazed Hossain has suggested taking concerted efforts in finding a locally designed and effective indigenous mechanism and diagnostic to manage autism that is appropriate for Asian culture. Saima, also daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, observed that Asian countries…
Turkish envoy visits Ahsania Mission cancer hospital
Turkish Ambassador to Dhaka Huseyin Muftuoglu yesterday stressed the need for ensuring quality and skills of doctors, nurses and others associated with cancer treatment. He made this comment while visiting Ahsania Mission Cancer & General Hospital (AMCGH) at Uttara.
Health ministry orders probes into violence at three hospitals
The government has formed three separate enquiry committees following the recent incidents at Birdem General Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. This was stated by Health Minister Mohammad Nasim after a meeting with leaders…
300 RMCH interns sued over journo assault in Rajshahi
Two cases were filed against 300 interns of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in connection with Sunday’s attack on journalists. Officer-in-charge of Rajpara Police Station Khan Mohammad Erfan said President of Bangladesh Photo Journalists Association Rajshahi unit Asaduzzaman Asad filed…
Judicial probe ordered into BIRDEM cases
A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of two cases filed by the BIRDEM General Hospital and relatives of a patient who died there during treatment. Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman ordered judicial investigations into the cases on Sunday. A case was…
Yunus Centre at Taiwan University
Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Taiwan from April 10 to 14, at the invitation of National Central University, Taiwan and the Rotary Club of Taiwan. A Memorandum of understanding (MoU) was ceremonially signed on 14th April, 2014 between Yunus…
BIRDEM doctors observe work stoppage to protest assault
Doctors of BIRDEM have stopped working in protest of an alleged assault by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. In a press release on Tuesday, the doctors said they will not treat patients until the ‘attackers’ were…
Hackers targeting vulnerable Windows XP users
Microsoft officially abandoned Windows XP this week and urged customers to upgrade, which means no more security updates and patches for the majority of users still running the operating system.
Law on the cards to try physicians for wrongs: Nasim
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday said a new law will be enacted to try the accused doctors. “We’re working for formulating a new law. If any physician is found guilty of any wrongdoings or any allegation…
‘Bring transgender people under HIV/AIDS prevention programme’
Speakers at a meeting here have called upon the media workers for bringing the transgender population, including hijra people under the HIV/AIDS prevention programme.
Law regulating practice of physicians would be updated
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday said the existing law under the BMDC regulating practicing physicians would be updated to make the doctors more accountable. “The government is thinking of incorporating a new provision of investigation and…
Lack of awareness aggravates TB spread in Chuadanga
The contagious malady kills 273, affect 7,096 in 8 yrs People are getting attacked with tuberculosis (TB) increasingly in the district as no awareness campaign is being carried out there to prevent the infectious disease.
Doctors’ role vital for reaching healthcare services to people
The doctors’ role is vital for reaching healthcare services to the people particularly the rural poor and disadvantaged ones, DC of Gaibandha said.
Four doctors suspended for skipping duty
Dhaka – Seven government doctors were suspended on Sunday for skipping duty, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. The doctors are medical officer of Shibpur upazila health complex of Narsingdi district M Razib Mahmud, Dr Ashfaq Nabi, assistant surgeon…
500 ethnic community people enjoying arsenic-free safe drinking water
More than 500 ethnic populations have started enjoying arsenic-free safe drinking water in Kalna village for the first time as two hand-driven tube-wells were commissioned there around one month ago which are capable to provide water round the year.