Prof Jahanara receives Quazi Quamruzzaman Gold Medal 2025
Professor Dr Jahanara Alauddin, the head of the paediatric anaesthesia department at Shishu Hospital, has been awarded Professor Quazi Quamruzzaman Best Paediatric Surgeon Gold Medal 2025...
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Govt begins probe into recruitment of 65 doctors
Health adviser Nurjahan Begum on Monday said that they had launched an investigation into the recent recruitment of 65 doctors at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute in the capital.
SURGE IN COLD-RELATED ILLNESS: Urban healthcare systems strained
URBAN centres, especially in Dhaka, face a significant rise in cold-related illness. The most vulnerable segments, the children and the elderly, bear the brunt, causing overcrowded hospitals and overextended healthcare system...
Hospitals need to step up efforts to treat cold-related diseases
AN INCREASE in the number of patients, especially children and the elderly, with complaints of cold-related diseases and death from such diseases warrants special measures. Besides, patients with diseases that are usually aggravated by cold weather, including respiratory problems, diarrhoea, jaundice, skin diseases, fever and others, have crowded...
Better response plan is must for severe heatwaves
IN RECENT years, extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves or unusually cold winters have become a common feature of Bangladesh鈥檚 climate, yet the government appears unprepared to tackle the...
Fire forces evacuation at Shishu Hospital
At least 173 patients at Dhaka Shishu Hospital, many of them admitted to intensive care units, had to be evacuated on Friday afternoon after...