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

Home Adviser promises safe environment in medical services

BSS: Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Tuesday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ensuring safe and secure environment in the medical services. “Recent incidents of

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

TDS Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday expressed optimism about bringing significant changes to Bangladesh’s health sector with the combined efforts of all involved in delivering healthcare services

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