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On June 6, Youth Policy Forum's ambitious series on budget dialogue culminated in its much-anticipated final event, "Youth meets Leaders." Standing true to the name, six distinguished experts of political and non-political backgrounds gathered to analyse the policy proposals present... Read More

Digital Healthcare Solutions launched a one-stop screening (triage) and sample collection for Covid-19 patients at Mugda Medical College Hospital in Dhaka this morning.

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Digital Healthcare Solutions (DH), the Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (ideSHi) and Mugda Medical College Hospital (MuMCH) have jointly launched the first one-stop digital booths for COVID-19 screening and testing in Bangladesh. 

Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP,... Read More

A number of private sector stakeholders, in association with the government, on Thursday launched digital booths to help increase Bangladesh’s Covid-19 screening and testing capacity.

These first of its kind one-stop Covid-19 “triage and sample collection” booth, will... Read More

Experts have stressed the need for hiking of tobacco products’ prices in the upcoming budget to tackle corona pandemic as World Health Organization (WHO) has recently informed that lungs hooked on tobacco are at greater risk of COVID-19.
In Bangladesh, about 40 million adults who use... Read More

Experts on Tuesday urged the government to increase prices of tobacco products in the upcoming budget to deter users from using them and generate additional revenue.

They said as about 40 million adults who use tobacco products are currently at grave risk of coronavirus infection in Ban... Read More

From being detected as the first Covid-19 positive case in Bangladesh cricket on May 9 to successfully recovering from coronavirus and leaving the hospital on May 29 – the three weeks were perhaps the toughest journey in entire life for Ashikur Rahman.

Now a development coach of B... Read More

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has requested the Ministry of Industries to suspend the production, supply, marketing and sale of all kinds of tobacco products to aid the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The government has removed the director of Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka and attached him to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) as an officer on special duty (OSD), an instance of punitive action often taken against public servants.

“I received the OSD order on We... Read More