Bangladesh and the European Investment Bank (EIB) plan to direct €250 million (approximately $280 million) from an existing sovereign loan toward women’s health and stronger medical services, according to The Business Standard. The proposed Women’s Health Initiative would serve about 47 million women and girls from 2027 through 2031. It would expand maternal and newborn […]
A water treatment plant in Bangladesh’s Munshiganj municipality remains unused three years after construction ended, as government departments dispute whether the facility is ready for handover. The plant cost about Tk 11 crore (approximately $892,000) and was designed to treat 350,000 liters of water per hour from the Dhaleshwari River, The Daily Star reported. Construction […]
Cyberbullying was associated with higher rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) among adolescent girls in Bangladesh, according to research highlighted by The Business Standard on World Mental Health Day, Oct. 10. The study, published Aug. 12, 2025, analyzed nationally representative data from Bangladesh’s 2019-20 adolescent health and well-being survey. Among 4,984 girls, 8% reported cyberbullying […]
Critically ill dengue patients in Bangladesh are struggling to secure intensive care beds as hospitals face growing pressure, according to reporting by The Daily Star. At Dhaka Medical College Hospital, which has 113 intensive care unit (ICU) beds, a duty doctor said she recently referred a patient elsewhere because neither intensive care nor coronary care […]
A ten-bed government hospital in Bangladesh’s Gopalganj district has gone without an appointed doctor for about three decades, leaving residents without inpatient or specialist care, The Financial Express reported.
Prime minister Tarique Rahman urged Bangladeshis, particularly young people, to take part in a nationwide cleanup campaign as the country confronts a worsening dengue outbreak that has killed 139 people and hospitalized more than 48,000 this year.
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.
