Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen yesterday directed the authorities concerned to shut down all unregistered hospitals, diagnostic centres, and clinics.

Children and elderly are mostly flocking to the hospitals to get treatment for winter-related diseases like pneumonia, asthma and diarrhoea.

A silent health crisis is unfolding in Gulishakhali village in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj upazila.

The United Medical College Hospital in Dhaka’s Satarkul, where a five-year-old child was given anaesthetic for a circumcision procedure on December 31, has been operating for about a year without registration.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said the government will keep the more than 4,500 health and family welfare centres in the country open round the clock to reduce the maternal mortality rate

The cost of dialysis at M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital in Dinajpur surged due to a lack of supply of medical equipment and medicine, leaving at least 200 patients worried for their lives.

Joynal Abedin, a resident of Mymensingh Sadar upazila, established a charity hospital -- Momtaz Hospital -- with his life’s savings to provide medical support to poor people in his locality and other neighbouring villages.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday emphasised the mental well-being challenges associated with menopause among women aged 40 and beyond.

With an oxygen mask on and a cannula attached to one hand, three-year-old Farhana Akhtar was lying in her bed in the pneumonia ward of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Institute, still struggling to breathe.

Child nutrition should be included in the election manifestos of candidates to address undernutrition in children under five, said speakers at a dialogue yesterday.

Misuse of antibiotics reduces sensitivity of the drugs against various diseases, leaving people more vulnerable, said experts at a programme yesterday.

Much to the relief of heart patients in the country, the government has reduced prices of cardiac stents up to 43 percent, effective from December 16.

The intensive care unit at Jamalpur General Hospital has remained unused since its inauguration, depriving heart patients of required treatment for years.

Over 30,000 babies are born annually in the country with congenital heart defects, with only 3,000 of them having access to surgeries, according to Bangladesh Journal of Cardiac and Thoracic Anaesthesiology, 2023.

Aakash Ali injured his spine about a year ago and has been on a wheelchair for the past five months. For him, paralysis was nothing but a synonym of death.

Multi-drug resistance in bacteria has increased by 14 percent over the last seven years, and most of them are getting even more resistant to certain antibiotics, said a national AMR (antimicrobial resistance) surveillance report.

The only operation theatre of the 50-bed Baufal Upazila Health Complex has not been operational for the past two years, causing immense suffering to people.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take steps to make it compulsory for all hospitals and clinics to follow the relevant guidelines for cesarean sections to prevent unnecessary operations.

Young parents Parul and Mijan became concerned when their only child, 16-month-old Aytullah, was having trouble standing up or sitting down -- activities that kids his age would easily perform.

Evercare Hospital Dhaka recently organised a patient forum to observe World Heart Day 2023, said a press release.