A heatstroke centre has been opened under the supervision of Dhaka North City Corporation at its Dedicated Covid Hospital in Mohakhali to treat patients suffering from heat stroke in the current heat wave. “Necessary medical services will be provided free of cost to patients suffering from h
The Embassy of China in Dhaka has introduced special facilitation measures for medical treatment visas for Bangladeshi nationals to China. The embassy has taken the initiative to implement the important consensus on public health cooperation reached by the leaders of China and Bangladesh during th
Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times — often on purpose. Now scientists are studying his blood in hopes of creating a better treatment for snake bites. Friede has long had a fascination with reptiles and other venomous creatures. He used to milk scorpions’ and spiders
Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser on the Health Ministry Professor Dr Md Sayedur Rahman on Friday called upon the pharmacists to think about working at the community pharmacy. “Pharmacists should think about community pharmacy beyond industrial pharmacy and hospitals or clinical pharmac
Global health funding faces historic challenges as donor countries reduce their contributions, the director of the World Health Organization said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump's administration withdrew from the WHO upon taking office in January, saying the U.N. agency had mishandled the
In a bid to make kidney transplantation easier for patients in Bangladesh, the government is set to "revise" the Human Organ Transplantation Act. A meeting between the Medical Education and Family Welfare Division and experts on Monday decided to open up a way for a “kidney swap”, esse
About 81.6 per cent of children in Bangladesh are covered under the national immunisation programme, but nearly half a million of them do not receive all the scheduled vaccine doses on time, according to UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. A media statem
Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the country's latest outbreak of ebola, three months after authorities confirmed cases of the highly infectious and often fatal viral hemorrhagic infection in the capital Kampala. The East African country announced its latest outbreak on January 30 after the d
Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the Covid-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday. Outbreaks of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis and yellow fever, have been incr
icddr,b has launched its Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)-based cancer diagnostic service, making a major step forward in making precision cancer care more accessible and affordable in Bangladesh. Offered by the icddr,b Genome Centre, this is the most comprehensive molecular testing service of its
