Health

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has issued special emergency directives at the field level to tackle the country’s flood situation and ensure emergency healthcare services in the affected areas. The directives were sent on Saturday to all divisional health directors, civil surgeons and upazila health officials across the country through a letter signed by Abu Hossain Md Moinul ...

Feeling tipsy without touching a drop? It might sound like the start of a joke, but for some people, getting drunk without drinking is a very real – and rather baffling – condition. Welcome to the strange world of auto-brewery syndrome, where your own body turns bread and pasta into booze. What is auto-brewery syndrome? Imagine this: you’re completely sober, ...

Three children died from measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8am on Friday morning, and no death from confirmed measles was reported, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). With the latest three fatalities the total death toll among children from confirmed and suspected measles cases has hit 750 in just about four months. During 8am Thursday-8am Friday, ...

Australia on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a native seabird, marking a new phase in the disease’s spread after it landed on the country’s shores last month. Laboratory testing by Australia’s national science agency confirmed the case in a greater crested tern found in the South Australian coastal town of Robe, Agriculture ...

Three more children with measles symptoms died in the 24 hours to 8am today (8 July), bringing Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 745. With the latest update, the number of suspected measles deaths has risen to 652, while the number of laboratory-confirmed measles deaths has reached 93. A total of 796 new suspected measles cases ...

Medical Reporter : Healthcare services at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital were disrupted on Wednesday after intern doctors launched an indefinite work stoppage and medical students declared an academic shutdown, protesting the alleged assault on a duty doctor inside the hospital’s emergency department. The clash broke out around 12:45AM and continued till 1:30AM at the hospital’s emergency department and ...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has directed all government hospitals to continue providing free NS1 tests for dengue diagnosis until 31 December 2026, aiming to strengthen early detection and treatment of the mosquito-borne disease. The directive was issued in a notification signed by Kazi Sharif Uddin Ahmed, Deputy Secretary of the Government Health Management-1 Branch under the Health ...

Prime Minister’s wife and Vice President of the Ziaur Rahman Foundation, Dr. Zubaida Rahman on Tuesday said the government is working to identify existing gaps in the country’s health sector and take necessary steps to address them. “The government is committed to ensuring quality healthcare for every citizen and greater involvement of young people is being emphasized to achieve this ...

Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain has directed all private clinics and hospitals across Bangladesh to establish labour rooms (delivery room) by Saturday, 11 July. He also warned that institutions failing to comply with the direction will have their licences cancelled. The health minister issued the directive while addressing a programme organised by the Bangladesh Midwifery Society in the capital ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain today said the government is working to address the gaps in disease diagnosis and ensure better healthcare services, especially at the grassroots level. Speaking as the chief guest at the inauguration of a two-day international conference titled “Appropriate Technology for Healthcare in Low and Middle Income Countries” at the Dhaka University ...