Healthcare

Reimagining primary healthcare through the GP system

Despite progress in Bangladesh’s health sector, primary healthcare (PHC) remains inadequate, particularly in rural areas where access to qualified doctors is limited.

What would the healthcare sector of the future look like?

Healthcare around the world is going through unique and dynamic changes.

Public health must prioritise disease prevention

There is a common confusion around the subject of health.

Healing burns! The remarkable benefits of tilapia skin

Tilapia fish skin, rich in collagen, offers a revolutionary, cost-effective burn treatment by promoting faster healing, reducing scarring, and preventing infections. This innovative approach is expanding globally, transforming wound care and sustainable healthcare practices.

India’s visa curbs / A wake-up call for Bangladesh to reform its healthcare

India’s visa restrictions on Bangladeshi nationals, while initially perceived as a barrier, could serve as a wake-up call for Bangladesh to strengthen its healthcare system and regain the confidence of its patients.

$4b spent a year on healthcare abroad

Bangladeshis spend around $4 billion abroad every year for healthcare, according to Malik Talha Ismail Bari, senior vice president of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).

We must protect doctors from violence

Violence against doctors is an issue that is neither unique to our country nor recent.

Develop a patient referral system

Ease pressure on tertiary facilities, re-imagine healthcare system

FY2024-25 Budget / For real growth, invest more into education and health

Bangladesh still struggles to adequately invest in education and healthcare

May 30, 2022
May 30, 2022

We need a social business model of medicine production

Patent-free global medicine production is the way to go in order to fight the next pandemic.

May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022

Marketing pills or monetizing pain? One family’s greed destroys thousands

Empire of Pain is a wondrous achievement of investigative journalism.

September 2, 2020
September 2, 2020

Reproductive healthcare needs special attention during pandemic: speakers

Speakers at a dialogue stressed that the government and non-government organisations must work together to ensure emergency reproductive healthcare and family planning services for women and adolescents.

June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020

‘Bangladesh could see additional 28,000 child deaths for disruption in healthcare’

The lives of about 4.59 lakh children and mothers in South Asian countries are in danger as they are deprived of vital health services due to the coronavirus pandemic, says a Unicef report.

August 23, 2019
August 23, 2019

Banglalink launches healthcare platform ‘Daktarbhai’

Telecom operator Banglalink on Wednesday launched a digital healthcare service platform called “Daktarbhai” to provide comprehensive solutions to customers.

April 8, 2019
April 8, 2019

People left high and dry by medical bills

Rising healthcare costs have become a major cause of pushing people deeper into poverty. According to a 2015 study by the health ministry, out-of-

January 8, 2019
January 8, 2019

Improving healthcare priority: Health minister

Improving healthcare services will be priority of the health ministry in the coming years, says new Health Minister Zahid Malik at his inaugural day.

September 13, 2018
September 13, 2018

Poor healthcare plagues RMG units

Four months into her pregnancy, Tahmina, 35, found herself under constant stress as she tried to meet the production quota in the RMG factory in Tejgaon where she had been working for the last four years.

October 27, 2017
October 27, 2017

6 doctors, 68 jails!

We have 70,000 inmates and only six doctors to look after them. Although there are 112 posts for prison doctors lying vacant, the state appears to be happy with the pool of just six doctors. Money literally talks in prisons.

October 24, 2017
October 24, 2017

Tall task in hand

The threat of infectious diseases looms large in Cox's Bazar Rohingya refugee camps as well as the local communities and beyond with hardly any sign of the Myanmar nationals going back anytime soon. Experts fear that the bordering district, where more than six lakh refugees are sheltered in overcrowded camps lacking pure water and sanitation facilities, is faced with a long-term public health challenge.