Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

The 312 returnees from Chinese coronavirus hit city of Wuhan were yesterday released from the capital’s Ashkona Hajj Camp after a 14-day quarantine.

Just two weeks ago, Ahmed Pharmacy, a small medicine store at Farmgate, had less than five customers looking for face masks.

A plane carrying passengers from the Chinese city of Kunming landed at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:15pm yesterday. An aircraft of Turkish Airlines arrived from Istanbul around the same time.

Anu Saha, 32, has been travelling to the capital’s Bangbandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from Sirajganj twice a month during the last two years to collect oral morphine for pain management for his dying mother Sebi Saha, 50, a patient of terminal cancer.

A total of 312 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in Coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday morning.

The number of people with hypertension and diabetes has increased alarmingly in the country and health experts attribute it to poor food habit and lack of exercise.

As soon as the clock hits six in the morning, Salma jumps into action. She hurries towards the bathroom either to take a shower or save some water in a container.

A government circular banning publication of any public hospital’s information without the consent from the authorities concerned has sparked criticisms with media professionals and experts considering the move as a blow to press freedom.

Despite a court directive to stop the over-the-counter sale of antibiotics, the health authorities have taken no concrete steps in this regard, raising the spectre of superbugs, which cause some seven lakh deaths globally per year.

Due to financial constraints, 18-year-old Anamika had no choice but suffer the effects of ventricular septal defect (VSD) -- a hole in the heart that’s present at birth.

Surgeons at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD), for the first time, have successfully replaced the aortic valve in an elderly woman’s heart using a minimally invasive procedure.

If you have a child who struggles to recover from malnourishment despite being well fed, here is some good news for you.

At the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014, member states of World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to strengthen palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course. However, this patient-focused approach is still under-addressed.

At least 10 types of bacteria have become more resistant to 17 life-saving antibiotics used for treating patients with infectious diseases across the country, according to a new government study.

Shakhawat Hossain (52) has been bedridden for the last three months, due to a surgery on his left toe on August 19 this year. A week before the surgery, he had an injury in the toe caused by a treenail. As he is a diabetic patient, since 2014, medication did not work on the injury and there was no option other than surgery.

Untreated medical wastes are accumulating at landfills in seven divisional cities, posing serious threat to public health.

A project by the health ministry to establish a national institute for laboratory medicine, that was approved in 2010 with a three-year deadline, will be up for approval for a fifth time extension at today’s meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec).

“One in every four coronary care unit admission in hospitals in Middle Eastern countries are from this sub-continent. And Bangladesh is on the top among the countries of this sub-continent,” said Dr Chaudhury Meshkat Ahmed, professor of cardiology department in BSMMU.

When Dalia Amin left her Gendaria house in the capital for Saudi Arabia on July 10 last year, her eyes were on a better, secure life for her two-year-old son, her husband as well as for herself.

Upon assurance from government high-ups, employees of 270 municipalities postponed their indefinite strike yesterday. Since July 14, they have been staging a sit-in in front of Jatiya Press Club, demanding arrears and regular payment from state coffers.