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Way to reduce ever plastic dependency in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent: Almost every grocery store readily offers plastic bags, and it has become a common practice to use them for various purposes. After purchasing vegetables, we stuff those into the plastic bags and throw away the plastic bags once we return home. Even roadside shops display rows of bananas…
Read More »Way to reduce ever plastic dependency in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent: Almost every grocery store readily offers plastic bags, and it has become a common practice to use them for various purposes. After purchasing vegetables, we stuff those into the plastic bags and throw away the plastic bags once we return home. Even roadside shops display rows of bananas…
Read More »Dhaka City Corporations fail to control Dengue
Zarif Mahmud: The number of dengue patients is increasing at an alarming rate in 129 wards of the two city corporations of Dhaka. Doctors are struggling to provide dengue treatment in hospitals. Dengue ward beds are not available in most hospitals. Many hospitals are treating patients to get beds on…
Read More »Unnecessary platelet transfusions raise concern
Staff Correspondent: As the dengue outbreak is worsening across Bangladesh, especially in Dhaka, the demand for platelets has surged at an unusual rate.The situation is posing serious challenges for hospitals and blood banks to meet the increasing demand for platelets.Terming the demand unusual, medical experts said many dengue patients are…
Read More »Crying in hospital wailing for blood
Mahfuz Emran: A 12-year-old child was admitted to Ibn Sina Hospital in Dhanmondi with dengue. The child was on life support for two days due to low blood platelets. The patient’s relatives also asked the blood donation organization Donate Blood BD to donate blood. Donors are also managed. But platelets…
Read More »Half of world’s people at dengue risk: WHO
Spreads 129 countries so far Industry Report: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting dengue fever. Raman Velaudhan, head of WHO’s tropical diseases unit, gave this warning at a UN press conference on Friday.He said WHO has recorded an…
Read More »BSMMU officials grab Tk 250cr illegally
ACC starts investigation Special Correspondent: There have been allegations of widespread irregularities and corruption in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), the country’s leading institution for medicine, education and research. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has received sensational information about the irregularities of about Tk 246 crore in 29 sectors of…
Read More »Dengue affects 90 pc of Rohingya
HM Faridul Alam Shahin, Cox’s Bazar: After Dhaka, the Rohingya community is being most affected by dengue in Cox’s Bazar. Their infection rate is 90 percent, with a fatality rate of 100 percent.The office of the Civil Surgeon in the tourist district of Cox’s Bazar states that over 1.2 million…
Read More »Dengue situation worsening in City
Staff Correspondent: The country’s dengue situation has turned for the worse with an alarming rise in deaths and cases of the mosquito-borne disease.The health directorate has feared that the dengue situation will deepen further if cases continue to rise.Health experts have suggested that the dengue out-break may turn into an…
Read More »Qualitas Healthcare Malaysia Clinic now in Bangladesh
Less medicine, low cost, effective medical treatment Diplomatic Correspondent: Qualitas Healthcare Malaysia Clinic has started its journey in Bangladesh aiming at providing low cost but more effective medical treatment services.Officials of the Qualitas Healthcare Malaysia announced this at a press conference at National Press Club in Dhaka on Sunday.The organisers…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
