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Indian ban on vaccine export won’t hamper Bangladesh deal: minister
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:16pm on January 04, 2021
Health minister Zahid Maleque said on Monday that the Bangladesh government was expecting the Indian government’s ban on export of COVID-19 vaccine by the Serum...
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Govt must ensure health issues in reopening schools, colleges
| Updated at 12:00am on December 31, 2020
A PROBABLE reopening of schools and colleges and equivalent institutions — closed since March 17 as part of a preventive measure against the spread of...
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COVID-19 exposes Bangladesh health sector fragility, corruption
Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:23pm on December 28, 2020
Weaknesses and corruption in the health system of Bangladesh came in the spotlight in 2020 as the country endured the first-ever outbreak of the deadly...
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Walton accords reception to health workers
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:45am on December 28, 2020
Walton honoured the country’s physicians, nurses and healthcare service providers as the recognition of their medical services to protect the people’s lives from the coronavirus...
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Gonoshasthaya Kendra extends affordable health care: Zafrullah
Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:52pm on December 23, 2020
To extend affordable healthcare for the masses Gonoshasthaya Kendra is going to open heart and transplant surgery units at its Nagar Hospital in the capital’s...
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Neighbourhood and health
Hasnat M Alamgir | Updated at 12:00am on December 24, 2020
THE influence of neighbourhood factors on health has been researched for a long time in other countries. Area-based economic data and mortality rates were analysed...
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Online misinformation threatens public health in Bangladesh
Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:47pm on December 11, 2020
The digital outbreak of misinformation about health, fitness and diets is threatening public health in Bangladesh as many lay people are acting on this information....
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Bangladesh health assistants’ protests put immunisation at risk
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:46pm on December 09, 2020
The ongoing protest for pay hike by the health workers has put a halt to the routine immunisation in the country, affecting millions of lives....
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Health assistants want pay rise, change in grade
RU Correspondent | Updated at 11:52pm on November 17, 2020
The leaders and activists of Bangladesh Health Assistants’ Association on Tuesday threatened to go on work abstention for an indefinite period if their demands for...
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COVID-19 death toll crosses 6,000, infects 1,517 more in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:43pm on November 04, 2020
The death toll from COVID-19 in Bangladesh crossed 6,000 on Wednesday. The country logged an additional 21 deaths and 1,517 infections from COVID-19 in the...