Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Sunday directed authorities to intensify nationwide cleanliness drives and public awareness campaigns with public participation to prevent dengue.
Climate change is exposing about 22 million Bangladeshi children ages 0 to 9 to at least one additional month of dangerous heat stress each year, according to research led by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and published in Science Advances.
Bangladesh has about 1 million people awaiting cataract surgery, with rural women facing some of the steepest barriers to treatment, according to the Bangladesh Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (BSCRS).
Bangladesh’s cabinet has approved a 10-year strategy to curb lead exposure, confronting a public health problem affecting more than one in three young children nationwide and nearly two-thirds in Dhaka district.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said Sunday that his government plans to expand upazila-level hospitals from 50 beds to 101 beds within the next five years, part of an effort to improve access to health care outside major cities.
Delta Pharma has begun work on a $100 million pharmaceutical manufacturing complex in Bangladesh’s National Special Economic Zone in Mirsarai, with commercial production targeted for 2029.
Malnutrition is cutting Bangladesh’s economic growth by 8% annually as the country faces undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and rising obesity, experts said.
Dengue claimed two more lives in the past 24 hours as Bangladesh’s total confirmed cases reached 16,104 this year, according to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Bangladesh first lady Zubaida Rahman, a physician, called for greater public awareness, blood donation and early detection to support people living with Thalassemia.
Bangladesh’s High Court has ordered an investigation after microplastics were detected in 26 of 34 toothpaste products available in the country’s market.
