HEALTHCARE financing is the backbone of the healthcare system. The other health system components are (1) inputs: (i) human resources for health, (ii) medicine, (iii) technology including diagnostics and (iv) physical infrastructure; (2) processes: (i) leadership or stewardship, (ii) governance and (iii) health management information system, which, however, by...
A total of 625 people have lost their lives and 18,380 have been injured during the student-led mass uprising, senior secretary MA Akmal Hossain Azad of the Health Services Division said on Wednesday.
THE escalating suicide rates among students in Bangladesh present a grave and complex issue, influenced by a host of socio-economic and psychological factors. Media reported that 513 students took their own lives in 2023, of which 227 are school students.聽Contributing factors include family discord, mental health struggles, academic stress, high expectations from parents and educators, sexual harassment, substance abuse, romantic disappointments, hormonal imbalances in teenagers, and internet addiction...
One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning.
THE average daily hospital admission of patients with dengue, which in the first six days in September doubled the number in the corresponding days of August, suggests a potentially threatening outbreak of the disease and a general failure of the health and local government authorities concerned to control the dengue vector during the...
The daily average hospitalisation of dengue patients in the first six days of the current month more than doubled compared with the same period of the last month, causing healthcare professionals and...
MENTAL health, often overlooked, is a serious public health concern in Bangladesh. Inadequate access to mental health care in the country, limited awareness and deep-rooted stigma hinder effective management and treatment. The Covid pandemic had a profound impact on mental health. Like many post-pandemic countries, mental health problems have increased in Bangladesh...
ISRAEL鈥橲 assault on Gaza has now officially surpassed the gruesome milestone of 40,000 Palestinians dead, but in counting only those killed in direct acts of violence that number captures just a fraction of the human loss...
WHAT eats up the vitality of a nation? Mendacity 鈥� deceit, dishonesty, and lying 鈥� are the vilest of sins. A respectable nation is built on respectable people, and respectability starts with oneself, which translates into respect for others. It is expressed through manners, sobriety, and other experiential and observed learnings...
THE suffering of people from diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases in the flood-hit districts suggests that the government is not prepared to tackle the post-disaster health crisis. As flood water has begun to recede in Noakhali and Feni, two of the worst-affected areas, the district hospitals and other health facilities are struggling to attend diarrhoea patients...
The doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday announced that they would resume outpatient healthcare from today, after two days of work stoppage...
IN THE 21st century, demographic transition, not an esoteric fact any more, has become a critical issue for policymakers and economists worldwide. The process affects every aspect of society, from the labour market and economic growth to healthcare systems and social security to the extent that supranational organisations such as the World Bank...
ON AUGUST 8, a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata (West Bengal, India) finished her 36-hour shift at the hospital, ate dinner with her colleagues and went to the college鈥檚 seminar hall to rest before her next shift...
Bangladesh is the world鈥檚 most polluted country and fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) shortens the average Bangladeshi resident鈥檚 life expectancy by 4.8 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organisation guideline of 5 碌g/m鲁 was met, says a new global report released on Wednesday...
MONKEYPOX is a zoonotic disease with a presentation similar to smallpox. Clinical differentiation of the disease from smallpox and varicella is difficult. Laboratory diagnostics are the principal components of the identification and surveillance of the disease, and new tests are needed for a more precise and rapid diagnosis. Monkeypox earned its name in...
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...
The hospitalisation rate from dengue infection and death rose sharply in August amid a relaxed anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season...
UN experts on Tuesday accused Iran of denying jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi proper healthcare, saying she reportedly suffered physical violence earlier this month...
The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it...
The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that the mpox outbreak was not another Covid-19.
Thousands of outraged Indian protesters, including arch-rival football fans and lawyers, called for justice on Monday after the rape and murder of a doctor as widespread strikes by healthcare workers entered a second week...
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.
The line director at the Department of Non communicable Disease Control Programme of the Directorate General of Health Service, Professor Mohammad Robed Amin, has been made the acting director general of the DGHS...
The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.
The health ministry has said that Bangladesh is on high alert for mpox (previously monkeypox), an infectious disease which has spread across various countries, particularly in Central Africa.
Speakers in a discussion on Wednesday demanded a revamp of the constitution to plug loopholes preventing any dictators from rising in future...
The American Wellness Center has launched a new initiative to support students in response to the profound losses and financial hardships endured by many due to the anti-quota student movement, said a press release...
Bangladesh Health Watch, a non-governmental organisation, urged the authorities concerned to immediately issue directives and provide resources to all healthcare institutions for treating people injured amid the unprecedented situation that has been created in the country in the past few weeks.
IN THE 1980s, a Bengali demographer had rudely but not inaccurately described four north Indian states as sick by giving them the acronym 鈥楤IMARU鈥�, assembled with the first letters of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. 鈥楤imar鈥� means sick or ailing and the four states were singled out for the description for their...
The High Court on Sunday severely criticised the Directorate General of Health Services for alleged corruption in the health sector.
