Porimol Palma

The government is embarking on the largest health sector programme, worth Tk 1,15,486 crore to be spent over the next five years, with special focus on diseases like cancer, heart ailments, diabetes, and improvements to health governance.

Khadiza Begum had been discharged from the psychiatric department of Bangladesh Medical College Hospital on March 11 and was asked to follow up with her consultant eight days later, on March 19.

As part of its efforts to bring tobacco consumption to zero by 2040, the government has drafted a policy to inspire tobacco farmers to go for alternatives crops.

If politicisation of profession takes upper hand, there will neither be an effective system to serve people nor will people have confidence in the government.

Over a month and a half has elapsed but the health secretary has not issued any circular asking doctors to write prescription in block letters or provide printed prescriptions in compliance with a High Court order issued on January 9.

At 23, her life should have been full of colours but instead it is as pale as it could get. This spring has brought her no joy at all.

When there is much to worry about the country’s health sector, surgeon and cancer specialist Prof Raqibul Anwar took the onus on

Since her childhood, Monjuara Parvin always had an empathy with the people of her community and determination to help them overcome their sufferings. However, she was yet to discover her writing skills.

Weak immune system linked to severe malnutrition could be a cause of “tree man” disease, doctors believe.

Weighed down by the burden of loans he had taken out for the treatment of his mother, 17-year-old Abdul Mottalib came to Dhaka in 2007 in search of a job.

Divorcing her abusive husband just two and a half years into marriage, Khoko Moni took up a job in Oman as a domestic help with hopes for a new lease of life.

When the government-fixed migration cost to Saudi Arabia is 1.65 lakh, against ILO Convention that says the migrants should pay no fees, workers are actually spending Tk 5 lakh to Tk 6 lakh.

Bangladesh's job market in the Middle East is likely to face a major blow with the continuous fall in oil prices and economic slowdown in the region. This gloomy economic state is already affecting the migrant workers there. With revenues from oil exports going down and the impact of wars in Syria and Yemen on the Arab countries, the governments of the region have begun slashing subsidies on oil, electricity and water.

Amid abusive labour practices all around, South Korea has set a unique model of recruiting foreign workers via state

A nexus between the employers of migrant workers overseas and illegal manpower brokers there is jacking up the migration

Nurul Islam spent just Tk 17,000 when he migrated to Saudi Arabia for work in 1985 as his employing company paid for his visa and the airfare.

Imagine a preteen girl or boy not being allowed to go outdoors to play with friends or visit relatives or even go to school.

Red tape and inefficiency of ministries between India and Bangladesh are delaying reunion of Solma Begum and her children for four years.

Former college teacher Mitali Akter these days finds instances when she is able to reminisce about the glory days she spent at the vast campus in Kishoreganj.

Rana Plaza disaster left scars that would take a long time to heal. It devastated the country and shook the entire world.