Health

Golam Mostafa Jibon:Continuous price hike of essential commodities has driven millions of people in the country into poverty during the corona pandemic due to lack of proper market monitoring.As a result, sufferings for poor and low income group of people have been mounted abnormally as they can’t purchase the essential…

Industry Desk: Bangladesh has advanced five notches to rank 39th among 53 countries in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking for September.According to the ranking report, released on Tuesday, Bangladesh achieved an overall score of 59.6 out of 100, while India scored 56.2 and Pakistan 56.1.This big shift upward occurred as Bangladesh…

Imports increased 116pc in 6-yrs Mahfuja Mukul: Wheat production and consumption in the country have increased significantly in 50 years. The annual wheat production in 1971 was only 112 metric tonns which has increased to 1300 tons in 2021, registering almost 1000 percent growth.The wheat consumption in 2020 in Bangladesh…

Staff Correspondent: Some 84 per cent of the country’s garment workers had worries about Covid-19 pandemic during the first week of last month when they were called back to work amid a strict nationwide lockdown with the virus still surging.This was revealed in a recent survey jointly conducted by South…

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to take a separate program to bring the industrial workers and their family members under the Covid-19 vaccination coverage as soon as possible.She also ordered to consider for reducing the existing two-month duration between two doses of inoculation.The premier…

Unfit vehicles plying on City’s roads randomly Golam Mostafa Jibon:Black smoke emitting from unfit vehicles especially from old and date expired buses has become cause of serious health hazard to the city dwellers due to lack of proper monitoring of the authorities concerned.Experts said, the air of the capital have…

Staff Correspondent: Amid the worrying rise in Dengue patients in hospitals, Directorate General of the Health Services (DGHS) yesterday announced six hospitals of Dhaka as Dengue- dedicated ones.A notification signed by Director of Management Information System (MIS) of the directorate professor Dr Mizanur Rahman was issued in this regard. According…

Public health at serious risk Golam Mostafa Jibon: Despite several drives of the law enforcers, fake and adulterated drugs have flooded the markets during the corona pandemic putting the public health at serious risk instead of saving lives.In the wholesale and retail market, adulterated medicines are being sold by copying…

Co-production of Vaccine Staff Correspondent: In a major development towards vaccine cooperation, Dhaka and Beijing formally signed a deal yesterday for co-producing Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh.Bangladesh signed the tripartite agreement with Chinese company Sinopharm and local drug manufacturer Incepta Pharmaceuticals at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) Auditorium,…