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  Collapse of hygiene management in hospitals in Bangladesh

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 01:05am on March 20, 2020

  Cleanliness, poor quality supply water, sanitation and hygiene as well as unsafe management of medical wastes in hospitals in Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh together...

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  Hygiene is the measure of any good hospital: Khairul Islam

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:56am on March 20, 2020

  WaterAid Bangladesh country director Khairul Islam said that hygiene of a hospital was very important and that the standard of a hospital depended on its...

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  Hospital hygiene is a must to check infection: Romen Raihan

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:53am on March 20, 2020

  Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University public health and informatics department associate professor Romen Raihan said that hospital hygiene was a must to stop hospital-acquired...

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  Coronavirus fears grip Bangladesh amid doubts over preparedness

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 01:14am on March 13, 2020

  The novel coronavirus, which the World Health Organisation later named as Covid-19 giving it a specific identifier, finally entered Bangladesh on last Sunday as the...

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  Follow the best practices to prevent its spread: Khan Abul Kalam Azad

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 01:08am on March 13, 2020

  Talking to New Age, Dhaka Medical College principal and noted medicine specialist Khan Abul Kalam Azad advised people not to get panicked, but to stay...

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  Coronavirus myth busters

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 01:05am on March 13, 2020

  There is no reason to believe that cold weather can kill the new coronavirus or other diseases. The normal human body temperature remains around 36.5°C...

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  Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:58am on March 13, 2020

  Stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak available on the WHO website and through your national and local public health authority. COVID-19...

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  Women migrants from Bangladesh need skills, returnees need support

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:31am on March 06, 2020

  Imparting proper education and skill training to the country’s women migrant workers before sending them abroad can ensure safe migration and better remittance, according to...

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  Training duration of women migrants should be extended: principal Fouzia Shahnaz

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:29am on March 06, 2020

  Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Women Technical Training Centre principal Fouzia Shahnaz said that the duration of training to provide the country’s women migrants a grounding before...

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  All should fulfil responsibilities to ease life of returnees: Nahida Rahman Shumona

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:27am on March 06, 2020

  The government, civil society and families — all have an equal responsibility to ease the life of a returnee female migrant, said Nahida Rahman Shumona,...