Every year about 300,000 children are born in the country through surgery, though they could have been delivered normally. Out of 3.48 million children born annually, surgery is applied for the birth of some 800,000 children a year, according to official statistics. Also, public healthcare experts say, antibiotics are needlessly being prescribed and patients are being […]

Stung By Chikungunya Disease: Know the Signs A serious case of the tropical disease “chikungunya” has now been found in Bangladesh. Chikungunya is a debilitating, mosquito-borne virus typically found in hot, tropical areas. It is not deadly but can leave victims unable to function in a normal way for days or even weeks on end. […]

Surgeries stop as stent suppliers enforce wildcat strike over govt move to fix exorbitant pricing Cardiologists during their angioplasty and stent implant procedures on patients yesterday learnt stent suppliers went on an undeclared “strike”, putting heart patients’ lives at stake and holding them hostage. The situation initially stunned and then angered doctors, patients and their […]

The High Court today directed the government to stop production and marketing of antibiotic penicillin and hormone drugs of 28 companies including Amico and Decent pharmaceuticals by 72 hours as those are substandard and injurious to public health. The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the government to explain in four […]

Turning the Tide Against Cholera A global pandemic rose from these swamps.Now scientists may have a way to stop it.   SUNDARBANS NATIONAL PARK, Bangladesh Two hundred years ago, the first cholera pandemic emerged from these tiger-infested mangrove swamps. It began in 1817, after the British East India Company sent thousands of workers deep into […]