PM says govt working on ‘health services for all’
March 6, 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government is working to reach the health services to the doorsteps of all people across the country.
Meanwhile, 6.82 lakh people in 400 upazilas have received health services through the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust. People in rural areas are now getting health services sitting at their houses as per the pledges of the grand alliance government, she said.
Pharma companies brace for new phase
February 13, 2010
Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies should prepare to maintain growth in local sales and exports and remain competitive in the post-2016 period, when patents will be imposed on all generic drugs, analysts suggest.
Upgrading product quality is one area the companies should focus on, they said. Other suggestions include capacity building in research and engineering and the setting-up of an active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) park to help local companies face the challenge.
40,000 die of kidney failure a year
February 7, 2010
Experts at a seminar yesterday termed chronic kidney disease as a major public health concern in the country as its 90 percent people are unable to bear treatment cost.
About two crore people are somehow suffering from the disease, while 40,000 die of longtime kidney failure a year in the country, they told a seminar in the city.
PM inaugurates immunisation campaign
January 9, 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the people’s representatives, opinion leaders, health workers, volunteers, mothers and guardians of all children aged up to five years to bring each of the kids to immunization centres to have polio vaccines.
“You all have to be cautious so that no child remains out of immunization as we want to make Bangladesh a polio free country,” she said.
Rid boss shown arrested in B’baria case
October 27, 2009
Managing Director of the Rid Pharma Limited Md Mizanur Rahman was shown arrested in a case filed in Brahmanbaria for manufacturing toxic Paracitamal syrup that claimed the lives of at least 28 children across the country.
District and Sessions Judge’s Court in Brahmanbaria also ordered attachment of the property of three other accused — Rid Pharma director Md Abdul Guni and pharmacists Md Mahbubul Islam and Md Anamul Haque — in the case.
Swine flu cases may rise in Nov-Dec
October 4, 2009
Swine flu cases are likely to increase in the upcoming months of November and December, epidemiologists of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) said today.
Dhaka gets H1N1 vaccines by January
October 1, 2009
State Minister for Health Mojibur Rahman Fakir today said Bangladesh will receive swine flu vaccines from World Health Organisation by January next. The state minister made the disclosure while addressing a meeting of the Dhaka City Corporation’s advisory committee at its office.
Source: thedailystar.net
Beximco Pharma donates capsule to ICDDR,B for Swine Flu treatment
September 15, 2009
Leading drug manufacturer Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (BPL) Sunday donated 5000 pcs. of Oseflu (Oseltamivir) capsule to ICDDR,B as a gesture of BPL’s support for the swine flu affected community of the country.
Another dies of swine flu
September 13, 2009
Another woman died of swine flu at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) confirmed today.
Earlier, the government had confirmed two more deaths from the H1N1 virus.
One more dies of swine flu
September 8, 2009
One more person died of swine flu outside the capital on Thursday, IEDCR confirmed at a press briefing this morning.
A four-month-old baby girl underwent treatment for swine flu and congenital defect for about a month at a hospital out of the capital.
She was taken back home as her condition deteriorated where she died on Thursday.