Medical &Health

‘Adulterated food a major threat to public health’

Ensuring proper measurement of food and its ingredients is vital for maintaining food safety as millions of people suffer from illness by eating contaminated and adulterated foods every year.Hazardous food has been adjudged as a major threat to public…

Health Minister off to Geneva to attend World Health Assembly

Minister for Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet has left early today for Geneva, Switzerland to attend the 76th World Health Assembly, the decision-making body the World Health Organization (WHO).Minister Basnet is leading a six-member delegat…

Khotang prepares for next-round of booster dose against COVID-19

Khotang, a hilly district in the Koshi Province, has prepared for administering a booster dose of COVID-19. The district-level Covid- 19 Vaccine Coordination Committee decided to give a booster dose to those who have already completed six months of re…

Physicians welcome inclusion of meditation in health service

The country’s renown physicians have welcomed the government’s initiative to include meditation in the medical treatment as an alternative treatment and opined that it will likely reduce health expenditure.They called upon the authorities concerned to…

3 youths killed in Gopalganj motorbike accident

Three youth bikers died after an unidentified speedy truck hit their vehicle from opposite direction in Sonasur area on Dhaka-Khulna highway here early today.The deceased were identified as Jami Sheikh, 17, son of Shokor Sheikh, Hasan Sarder, 18, son …

RMCH to get 1,200 more beds for patients’ welfare

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) is going to get 1,200 more beds aimed at providing more extensive health services to a greater number of people.With this breakthrough, the tertiary hospital will be elevated to a 2,400-bed one that will contri…

BGB recover 27,000 yaba tablets, 1 kg heroin in C’nawabganj

59 battalion of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 27,000 pieces of yaba tablet and one kg of heroin from Chakpara frontier in Shibganj upazila of the district last night.BGB said, a special patrol team of BGB led by the Commanding Officer (CO) o…