May 11, 2020

Highest surge in single day

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 The Covid-19 outbreak in the country turned grimmer yesterday as health authorities reported a new record of […]
May 11, 2020

Little care for the living and the dead

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 Time is of the utmost essence in emergency care. But in this pandemic, as hospitals take on […]
May 11, 2020

Focus more on epidemiological surveillance

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 While conducting an epidemiological surveillance is crucial to understand and fight the outbreak of an extremely contagious […]
May 11, 2020

50 lakh poor households to get cash aid through MFS from May 14

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 The government’s move to provide cash assistance to 50 lakh poor families hit by the coronavirus pandemic […]
May 11, 2020

Gonoshasthaya kits to be tested today

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020  The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) will begin the performance trial of home-grown Covid-19 testing kit […]
May 11, 2020

People handling the dead still exposed

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 Health workers and police personnel who come in close contact with unidentified dead bodies for conducting autopsies […]
May 11, 2020

A ray of hope for patients

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 When there was no effective drug to treat Covid-19 patients in the country, anti-viral generic drug Remdesivir, […]
May 11, 2020

Protection now polluting Study finds 14,500 tonnes of waste in masks, gloves, bags generated in first month of shutdown

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 11 May 2020 Around 14,500 tonnes of hazardous plastic waste have been produced from the single use surgical face masks, […]
May 10, 2020

Convalescent plasma therapy available in Dhaka to combat COVID-19

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 10 May 2020 Evercare Hospital Dhaka has conducted the first ever convalescent plasma (CP) therapy in Bangladesh recently, says a […]