Health

The rate of caesarean section deliveries in Bangladesh has risen to 51.8 per cent this year (2025), up sharply from 36 per cent in 2019, according to the latest Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The report’s preliminary findings, released Sunday at a national dissemination event at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre, show that ...

Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum visited Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday to check on those injured in the powerful earthquake that struck various parts of the country earlier in the day. She arrived at the hospital’s emergency department around 1:45 PM and toured several wards to observe the condition of the patients. During the visit, Nurjahan spoke with relatives ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that it aims to vaccinate more than 40,000 children against various diseases in Gaza, as it takes advantage of the recent ceasefire. The WHO and its partners already vaccinated over 10,000 children under the age of three in the first eight days of an initial phase of the campaign launched on 9 ...

Six more people died of dengue while 788 patients were hospitalised across the country in the past 24 hours, raising the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to 349 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)., three deaths occurred in Rajshahi Division, two in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), and one in Dhaka South City Corporation ...

Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday. The Marburg virus is one of the deadliest known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and has a 21-day incubation period. Also like Ebola, it is ...

Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in the south of the country. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday commended the Ethiopian Health Ministry and other health agencies for their “rapid and transparent response to the outbreak”. “This fast action demonstrates the seriousness of the country’s commitment to ...

Several recent initiatives to facilitate Bangladeshi patients’ treatment in China have opened a new horizon in relations between the two countries, paving the way for a more intensified economic partnership. China extended a hand of friendship when India halted the issuing of visas to Bangladeshis after 5 August 2024, leaving many patients in distress. Seizing this opportunity, China strategically stepped ...

Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around the world. At a conference in Geneva, signatories to a treaty aimed at protecting human health and the environment from mercury pollution called time on mercury amalgams. Nations agreed “to end the use of dental ...

NHS bosses are aiming to keep nearly all services running as resident doctors begin a five-day walkout in England. The strike – the 13th by British Medical Association (BMA) members in the long-running pay dispute – began at 07:00 GMT and lasts until 07:00 Wednesday. Resident doctors – the new name for junior doctors – are walking out of both ...

Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication – one involving a new class of drugs. Switzerland-based Novartis released results of what it called a next-generation treatment. A study of its experimental drug in 12 African countries found it works well against the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria and seems to block spread. ...