Online desk : South Asia could face a further public health crisis as children miss routine vaccinations, the UN warned Tuesday, spurring fears that the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic might…
Category: Health
Doctor’s Safety Chamber opens at Bagerhat Hospital
Online Desk : A Doctor’s Safety Chamber has been opened at Bagerhat Sadar Hospiatl with the initiative of Bagerhat-2 MP Sheikh Tonmoy. Deputy Commissioner Md Mamunur Rashid formally inaguarted the chamber on…
No chance to test Gonoshasthaya kit without approval
Online desk : The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has rejected the Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s allegation of noncooperation in giving approval to its coronavirus test kit. The DGDA Director General Maj Gen…
Corona patients’ recovery rate in Bangladesh ‘lowest in the world’
Online desk : Though 4,998 people tested positive for coronavirus from March 8 to April 25, only 113 of them or 2.26 percent recovered during the period, showing one of the lowest…
Manikganj SP donates medical gears in health office
Online Desk : The Manikganj police superintendent has donated PPEs for the doctors of the district and a thermal scanner for upazila health complex. SP Rifat Rahman Shamim handed over the medical…
BD gets Hydroxychloroquine, other medical gears from India
Online Desk : India has handed over the second consignment of emergency medical supply to Bangladesh to contain the spread of Covid-19. Indian High CommissionerS in Dhaka Riva Ganguly Das handedover the…
Gonosasthaya Kendra hands over COVID-19 test kits to BSMMU, CDC
Online Desk : Gonoshasthaya Kendra on Saturday handed over country’s first ever locally produced coronavirus detection kits to the representatives of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and the US Centers for…
Large-scale human trial of COVID-19 vaccine kicks off at Oxford
Online Desk ; In the global scramble for a COVID-19 vaccine, a select number of human trials are now under way, but it’s scientists from England’s University of Oxford who appear most…
Another medical officer of Haluaghat Health Complex corona infected
Online Desk : Yet one more medical officer has been infected with coronavirus at Haluaghat Upazila Health Complex in Mymensingh district. With this, three people including two medical officers have been infected…
Doctors think ventilators might harm some COVID-19 patients
Online Desk : A global debate has emerged among doctors treating COVID-19: When should patients who need help breathing be placed on ventilators — and could intubation do some people more harm…
Community transmission started in country: Health Minister
Online Desk : Coronavirus has already spread through community transmission in the country, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque urging all to remain alert so that it cannot spread further. “The main tool…
Smokers, vapers may be at greater risk
Online desk : Anxious times — like a pandemic — can lead to unhealthy but self-soothing habits. But some stress-reducing behaviours are alarming to medical experts right now — namely vaping and…