The rate of normal birth delivery in the country is 69 percent, while the rate of cesarean delivery is 39 percent, Health Minister Zahid Maleque told parliament on Monday.He said this replying to a scripted question from Jatiya Party’s Rustum Ali Faraj…
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) — more than twice as much as previously forecast — according to a study published Monday.That’s because of something that could be ca…
The Private Medical College and Dental College Bill, 2022 was passed in Parliament on Monday to ensure discipline in private medical and dental colleges by bringing those under a law instead of remaining under two separate guidelines.Health Minister Za…
The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to creat…
The overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 606 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 606,549,461 and the death toll reached 6,489,855 on Tuesday morning.T…
The woman was crumpled on the floor of a mangled Mercedes, unconscious and struggling to breathe. The French doctor had no idea who she was and just focused on trying to save her.Twenty-five years later, Dr. Frederic Mailliez is still marked by what ha…
Two brothers died while another sustained injuries after being struck by lightning in Sunamganj district on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Khokon Mia and Jhilon Mia, residents of Bekhoijura village in Dharmapasha upazila, said Mizanur Rahman, …
Six members of a family suffered critical burn injuries in an explosion in the gas pipeline of their house in the Jinjira area of Keraniganj early on Tuesday.The injured are Begum, 60, Iduni Begum, 50, Sonia Akter, 26, Md Sahadat Hossain, 20, Maria Akt…
Bangladesh reported zero Covid death and 172 new cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.While the country’s total fatalities remained unchanged 29,323, the new numbers took its caseload to 2,011,732, according to the Directorate General of Health Servi…
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday warned that the Awami League government must be brought to justice for indulging in enforced disappearances if it does not investigate such allegations under the UN mechanism. “On this day, w…
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Act, 2022 was placed in the Parliament on Tuesday in order to repeal the military regime ordinance over the icddr,b in line with a verdict of the higher court.Health Minister Zahid Ma…
Another 237 people were hospitalised with dengue – a viral infection – in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning.Of them, 196 were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 41 outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).As many a…
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