Jamuna Bank stakeholders to get healthcare benefits
Jamuna Bank PLC on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Apollo Clinic-licensee JMI Specialized Hospital Limited, said a press release...
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In need of solution to issues that cripple rural health care
AN ACUTE shortage of human resources and essential facilities at healthcare institutions in rural areas, especially at upazila and district public hospitals, shows the systemic neglect that has rendered rural health services inadequate. The situation also disproportionately burdens the poor and low-income people as they primarily depend on these hospitals. Ill-equipped...
Bangladesh health adviser asks doctors to prioritise duties
Bangladesh interim government health and family welfare adviser Nurjahan Begum on Friday urged doctors to refrain from political involvement and prioritise their responsibilities as healthcare providers.
Businesses seek free health sector
Private healthcare entrepreneurs on Saturday at a discussion in Dhaka demanded an unregulated health sector, with prices of medicines and services left to the market forces.
Govt to set price of essential medical tests: Sayedur
The government is working to prepare a list of essential medical tests in order to set their prices and bring down healthcare expenses, said professor Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant to the interim government chief adviser, on Tuesday.
Midland Bank, BRAC Healthcare sign deal
Midland Bank PLC on Monday signed an agreement with BRAC Healthcare, said a press release...
Praava Health celebrates 8th anniv
Healthcare brand Praava Health has recently celebrated its 8th anniversary, said a press release...
Secure green future
A SECURE green future is not a slogan. It is a road map for any country that wants prosperity to last. As societies digitise everything from banking and energy to healthcare and education, two questions must be asked together, not separately. Does this system protect people鈥檚 data and livelihoods? And, does it minimise harm to the environment? If the answer to either...
Inhabitants face healthcare crisis, lone pharmacist serves 70,000 people
Despite being home to nearly 70,000 people, Char Asariadaha union located across the River Padma at Godagari upazila in Rajshahi has a state-run healthcare centre, but there are no doctors, nurses and medicine available at the facility and...
DNCC to operate urban healthcare service
The Dhaka North City Corporation has taken the responsibility for operating urban healthcare services with an aim to make the primary healthcare more affordable and ensure better quality for its residents...
RU students stage demo for 9-point demand
Students of Rajshahi University on Sunday staged a demonstration on the campus to press home their nine-point charter of demands including better residential facilities, improved healthcare, and digitisation of administrative services...
PBPLC signs deal with Aqidah
Pubali Bank PLC and Aqidah Healthcare Limited have recently signed an agreement, said a press release...
Midland Bank, Generic Healthcare join hands to enhance healthcare access
Midland Bank PLC and Generic Healthcare Ltd, an innovative digital healthcare service provider, signed a memorandum of understanding to improve healthcare access and delivery among the underserved communities...
Soforon holds mental healthcare workshop for July uprising survivors
Soforon Foundation has recently held a workshop titled Nirban on the mental healthcare of the survivors of the July uprising at the BRAC Centre of Mohakhali in Dhaka.
Enhancing efficiency of healthcare financing
THE health sector may claim notionally to cater universal health coverage as the doors and the windows to all public health facilities are open to all citizens. The universal health coverage, however, relates to three specific dimensions, not available now in public health facilities. These are the quality of service and equitability with its two dimensions 鈥� reaching everyone...
Yunnan-Bangladesh medical education, health care prog held at BMU
The Yunnan-Bangladesh Education and Healthcare Cooperation Programme was held at Bangladesh Medical University in Dhaka on Monday...
Transforming Bangladesh into a healthcare hub
Bangladesh, one of South Asia鈥檚 fastest-growing economies, holds immense potential in the healthcare sector. However, the country鈥檚 health system currently faces several critical challenges 鈥� particularly the high cost of treatment, increasing patient outflow to foreign countries, the rising burden of cancer and chronic diseases, and heavy reliance on imported...
Destruction of Gaza healthcare infrastructure
ON MARCH 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa 鈥� a surgeon working in Gaza 鈥� posted an urgent update on the social media platform X:...
Medical waste poses serious health risks
Medical waste generated in healthcare facilities poses serious health risks as many hospitals keep discharging untreated waste water into open water bodies and dumping solid wastes in nearby dustbins...
Healthcare reforms must lead to universal health coverage
UNIVERSAL health coverage aims to provide everyone with essential healthcare services without financial strain. However, despite global pledges to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, more than half of the world鈥檚 population still lacks access to basic health services. The Health Care Financing Strategy 2012...
USAID FUNDING FREEZE: Not a setback, but a wake-up call
IN BANGLADESH, the recent USAID funding freeze and the UK鈥檚 aid cuts have alarmed concerned stakeholders. Foreign assistance has long played a crucial role in healthcare, education, humanitarian aid, and climate adaptation. The fear is that without foreign aid from the giants, essential programs could collapse, leaving vulnerable communities at risk. But rather than...
Interns鈥� strike antithetical to their professional obligation
PATIENTS suffer across the country as the intern doctors of public hospitals in divisional towns went on a work abstention programme on February 23, demanding that anyone without a bachelor of medicine, surgery, or dental surgery cannot be allowed to use the title 鈥榙octor鈥�. Since healthcare services, particularly in the outpatient and emergency departments in the public...
Thailand indicts fugitive medical tycoon for $480m fraud
Thai prosecutors on Friday formally indicted a fugitive 86-year-old healthcare tycoon for loan fraud worth $480 million, officials said....
West Bank healthcare in dire state: MSF
The healthcare system in the occupied West Bank has been in 鈥榓 state of perpetual emergency鈥� since October 2023, the Doctors Without Borders group said in a new report published on Thursday.
Time to decentralise聽
IF YOU live in Bangladesh, you live under the shadow of Dhaka. Whether it鈥檚 for higher education, advanced healthcare, legal proceedings, or career opportunities, the capital city is the unavoidable nerve centre of the country. Yet, its overburdened infrastructure, worsening pollution, and staggering congestion tell the story of a country trapped in an...
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...
SCB, Bidyanondo providing healthcare in remote areas
Standard Chartered Bangladesh and Bidyanondo Foundation have recently partnered to provide healthcare services to over 2,41,600聽 people from char and other hard-to-reach areas through Jibon Kheya floating hospital initiative, said a press release...
Campaigners seek free healthcare
The Health Sector Reform Commission in 50 days of its formation is still gathering information and opinions on several focal areas such as service improvement while public health campaigners and medical practitioners demand free healthcare at all public health facilities...
Reform should focus on bringing healthcare to doorstep: discussion
Health rights activists, policy makers and experts at a discussion on Saturday said that the health sector reform should have a special focus on bringing universal primary healthcare coverage to people鈥檚 doorsteps...
No health impact from India鈥檚 visa restriction: discussion
Healthcare providers and the sector experts at a discussion on Thursday said that there were no significant negative health impacts from India鈥檚 suspension of visas after the July uprising for there were no lack of facilities in the health sector of the country...