Health

Social awareness essential to mitigate obstetric fistula: Experts

Staff Correspondent: Speakers at a meeting have unanimously observed that raising awareness, especially among people in remote and hard-to-reach areas, is crucial to preventing and mitigating obstetric fistula-a severe childbirth-related

Youths demand higher tobacco taxes in FY25–26 budget

Staff Correspondent: The Youth Forum Against Tobacco on Tuesday called on the government to increase taxes and prices of all tobacco products in the upcoming national budget for 2025–26 to

18pc children miss out on full vaccination doses

Staff Correspondent: A significant number of children in Bangladesh are either not fully vaccinated or have not received any vaccine at all, according to new data presented by government and

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