One more dies of dengue
At least one more dengue patient died and 249 others were admitted to different hospitals across the country during the past 24 hours till Sunday morning...
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108 more dengue cases reported
One hundred and eight new dengue cases were reported across the country in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the number of confirmed cases to 5,411 since the beginning of 2025, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...
288 dengue cases recorded in 24 hours
Two hundred and eighty eight new dengue cases were reported across the country in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the number of confirmed cases to 5,303 since the beginning of this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...
Govt issues 11-point directives to prevent spread of Covid-19
The Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday issued an 11-point directive, including the avoidance of public gatherings, for people amid a rise in infections caused by new omicron sub-variants of the Covid virus in Bangladesh and a surge in Covid infections in neighbouring India...
22 new dengue cases reported in 24hrs
At least 22 new dengue patients were admitted to hospitals across the country in the past 24 hours till Saturday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...
Ex-DGHS driver Malek, wife jailed in graft case
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Malek, formerly a driver of the Directorate General of Health Services, to five-year imprisonment and his wife Nargis Begum to three-year in jail for amassing illegal wealth...
Intern doctors submit memo to DGHS, continue strike聽
A group of intern doctors and students from both government and private medical colleges submitted their demands to the Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday, calling for the use of the title 鈥榙octor鈥� to be reserved exclusive for those holding a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of聽 surgery (MBBS) degree and a bachelor of dental surgery (BDS) degree...
Death toll from dengue surpasses 500: DGCH
This year鈥檚 death toll from the mosquito-borne disease dengue surged past 500 on Tuesday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...
Dengue death toll nears 500 this year
At least six more people died of dengue and 882 affected were hospitalised in the past 24 hours till 8:00am on Sunday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services press release...
7 more die of dengue
Seven more people died of dengue in the past 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising this year鈥檚 total deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 482...
Dengue treatment inadequacy outside cities warrants action
THE proposition that 78 per cent of the dengue patients recorded as residents of Dhaka鈥檚 south city areas in hospital documents are from outside Dhaka is worrying on a couple of counts. This brings to the fore the weakness of the reporting mechanism put in place in hospitals. This also stands to frustrate any plan to fight against the disease. Above all else...
Govt should heed grievances of wounded protesters
PROTESTERS injured during the student-mass uprising in July-August that toppled the autocratic Awami League government on August 5 having not received adequate support for treatment and rehabilitation from the interim government is unacceptable. About 30,000 people, including many students, were injured in the uprising while at least 708 died...
Growing early diabetes incidence warrants early attention
AN ALARMING increase in the number of people with diabetes, especially young people, warrants a comprehensive government approach to head off any likely burden on public health. Research show that, especially, Type 2 diabetes, which is usually evident in people aged more than 40 years, is increasing in children and young people, pushing up the...
7 more die of dengue
Seven more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 297 this year...
Six more die of dengue, 1,248 hospitalised
At least six people died of dengue and 1,248 others were hospitalised across the country in the past 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the death from dengue infection to 277 so far this year...
Govt should investigate dengue further for better management
AN INCREASING number of death from dengue infection may have been the result, as experts believe, of mutation in both the dengue virus and its vector 鈥� primarily, Aedes aegypti. As dengue virus has its genome based on ribonucleic acid which can mutate fast to adapt to adverse conditions, experts say that such...
Dengue deaths top 200 since January in Bangladesh
At least two more people died of dengue and 490 others were hospitalised across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the number of death from...
Growing dengue incidence calls for enhanced measures
THE death of at least 36 people from dengue in the past week and a large number of hospital admission testify to what entomologists warned earlier that dengue incidence would increase in late September and October. At least, eight people died of dengue and 1,017 others were admitted to hospital on October 2, taking the death from dengue infection to...
Eight die of dengue in Bangladesh in 24 hours
Eight more people died of dengue fever in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 158 this year.
Govt publishes draft list of 708 killed in student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh
The Directorate General of Health Services on Tuesday for the first time published a list of 708 deaths in the student-led mass uprising in July-August that forced deposed prime minister...
One dies of dengue, 615 hospitalised in 24hrs in Bangladesh
One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning.
Authorities must resume all dengue containment activities
A RELAXED anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season in August has resulted in an increase in dengue death and infection. Both death and infection rates have doubled in August compared with that in June and July. At least 20 people died of dengue, as the Directorate General of Health Services says, and 4,041 were admitted to hospital in 21 days...
Dengue hospitalisation, death on rise in Bangladesh
The hospitalisation rate from dengue infection and death rose sharply in August amid a relaxed anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season...
Resignation of DGHS director general demanded
Doctors and staff members aligned with Bangladesh Nationalist Party demanded the resignation of the director general and other pro-Awami League officials of Directorate General of Health Services on Monday.
HC asks DG health service to stop corruption in health sector聽
The High Court on Sunday severely criticised the Directorate General of Health Services for alleged corruption in the health sector.
ACC sues ex-DGHS DG Azad, JKG鈥檚 Sabrina
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against seven people, including former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services Professor Abul Kalam Azad and JKG Health Care chairperson Sabrina Sharmin Hossain, on charges of cheating people by preparing fake Covid-19 test reports...
Govt must take mosquito density survey findings seriously
THE pre-monsoon mosquito survey of the Directorate General of Health Services that has found a high density of Aedes mosquito in Dhaka is worrying. This suggests the failure of mosquito control programmes. Dengue prevention efforts of the south city authorities, as the survey finds...
DGHS holds meeting on public health
Directorate General of Health Services held a meeting titled 鈥楳apping Public Health for Global Health Security: Surveillance System, Public Health Laboratories, and...
Hospital blames patient鈥檚 relatives for lift dysfunction
The authorities of Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Gazipur accused the relatives of the dead patients for pushing lift to dysfunction and death of the cardiac patient on Sunday...