The Health Minister said, “So far 46 casualties have been reported.” About 10 of the injured were admitted to the Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit. People trapped in the building died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide cannot escape from the confined space. As a result, people trapped in that space inhale […]
SM Golam Kaiser, deputy manager of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) zoonotic disease control program, told Prothom Alo that the number of rabies deaths each year before 2010 was 2,500. Various measures to eradicate rabies have now reduced the number of deaths.Sources said the Health Ministry had adopted a National Rabies Elimination Program in […]
Noting that Saima Wajed will join as WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia on February 1, the Health Minister said, “This is a big achievement for our country. She is not only the daughter of our Prime Minister, but also a known face globally for her work on autism. Samant Lal Sen said, “Due to […]
The minister said this while exchanging views with Bangladesh Health Reporters Forum at the ministry’s auditorium in the afternoon. At one stage of the programme, the father of baby Ayaan, who died after circumcision at the United Medical College Hospital in Satarkul, Badda in the capital a few days ago, and some other relatives entered […]
Mourners carry their flag-draped bodies during the funeral of Palestinians killed during an Israeli attack in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on January 7, 2024. Violence has increased in the West Bank since the beginning of Israel’s war with Gaza-based Hamas militants. At unprecedented levels in almost two decades. Israeli forces conduct regular raids […]
Delay in exam results, job conditions hinder motherhood
Some of the country’s top epidemiologists, entomologists and public health experts were not present at Sunday’s meeting. He was not invited. Meanwhile, the main task of mosquito control has been given to the Ministry of Local Government. While representatives of the Dhaka North and South City Corporations were present at the meeting, there was no […]
The Chief of Party (COP) of NJP II, Lima Hana Daring, gave a welcome speech and shared the objectives of the discussion. Geeta Rani Devi, Deputy Program Manager (DPM), Community Mobilization, CBHC, CCHST moderated the discussion. Rafiqul Islam, Deputy Secretary, CBHC, CCHST; Bimal Chandra Deb, Assistant Secretary, CBHC, CCHST were present among others. Nirmal Sarkar, […]
Government hospitals in Rangamati, Bandarban, Khagrachhari, Barguna, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Chapainwabganj, Panchgarh, Natore, Magura, Jhenaidah, Bhola, Nilphmari, Thakurgaon, Kurigram, Jamalpur, Jhalakathi, Pirojpur, Shariatpur, Netrokona, Chuadanga have ICU beds. and Sunamganj. Moreover, though the hospitals in Bagerhat and Madaripur have ICU facilities, these are not functioning. In response to a question about what they do when an […]
To provide emergency treatment service to road accident victims, Ilyas Ahmed Choudhary Trauma Center has been set up at Dattapara, Shibchar, Madaripur at a cost of 120 crores. Health Minister Zahid Malek inaugurated the health facility next to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Expressway in November last year, but treatment service is yet to start. […]
Israeli troops opened fire from a car in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and two Palestinians were killed in retaliation, the army said. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of two men, aged 23 and 24, near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank areas, where Israeli raids have intensified following […]
India has detected the presence of all Omicron sub-types of COVID-19 in the community after testing more than 300 samples since late December, the health ministry said in a statement on Monday. “No mortality or increase in transmission has been reported in areas where these variants have been detected,” the ministry said.
