Health

Sustainable funding essential to curb hypertension

Speakers at World Hypertension Day discussion meeting Staff Correspondent: The risk of hypertension and hypertension-related deaths is growing increasingly in Bangladesh. Although provision of free anti-hypertensive medicine has already commenced Read More

Home Adviser promises safe environment in medical services

Prof Yunus sees “window of opportunity” for changes in health sector

Social awareness essential to mitigate obstetric fistula: Experts

Youths demand higher tobacco taxes in FY25–26 budget

18pc children miss out on full vaccination doses

Prof Yunus orders quick action on implementable health sector reform proposals

TDS Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday said the recommendations of the Health Sector Reform Commission will play an important role in resolving the long-standing problems in the

‘Road reform sans enactment of road safety law impossible’

TDS Desk: The Ahsania Mission Youth Forum for Health and Wellbeing has claimed that road reform is not possible without the enactment of a road safety law. Speakers raised this

Bangladesh Railway hospitals to open doors to general public

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Railway Hospitals will soon be accessible to the general public, Railways Adviser Fouzul Kabir announced on Monday, marking a shift from their previous use exclusively for railway

Floating hospital brings hope to Meghna Char residents in Chandpur

Chandpur Correspondent: A state-of-the-art floating hospital dedicated to providing free healthcare to the underprivileged communities of Chandpur’s remote char areas, has started operation. Health Services Division Secretary Md Saidur Rahman