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Frequent use of antibiotics is creating stronger germs, posing a serious threat to public health with some bacteria already ‘resistant’ to common antibiotics, experts say. In this context, as most of the people in the country live in remote villages, they usually take treatment from quac...
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Around ninety percent of the females laboring in the factory are subjected to mental torture while 51 percent of women to physical abuse.43 per cent of women were sexually assaulted, the Bangladesh Labor Rights Forum and Citizens’ Initiative Research paper reported. The report is based on a su...
Black Bengal goat rearing is sharply increasing day by day in many districts of the country as goat farming is notably contributing to reducing unemployment and poverty. Cattle farms are growing at a rate of 25 per cent every year, since cattle stopped coming from India.There are now about 12 l...
Although a huge number of persons in the country are suffering from different levels of mental illness, very few people are aware of curing it through proper medical treatment. Ignorance, the fear and shame of being labelled a mad are the reasons behind no treatment and often mistreatment of the men...
Patients admitted in public hospitals face risk of being injured as many of the uncared shabby looking hospital buildings are found to be worn-out with visible cracks which may fall apart any time.During visits to many such dilapidated appearing hospitals in the city this correspondent witnessed evi...
Without any prescription selling of antibiotics is banned in Bangladesh like in many countries of the world. Yet antibiotics are being sold over the counter without proper prescription.Doctors warn that misuse of antibiotics can lead to drug resistance in the human body which is now known to be one ...
There is no let up in road crashes in the country as at least 80 people were killed and many others injured in the first 11 days after the enforcement of the Road Transport Act-2018.The Road Transport Act-2018 began on November 17 with creating mass awareness on the law.But reckless driving continue...
With setting of the winter mosquito menace in the capital Dhaka is taking a serious turn gradually, giving many dwellers sleepless nights.Most people living in different residential areas of the city have begun complaining against the increase in mosquito menace over the last few days.The mosquitoes...
Thick black smoke emitted from illegal brick kilns around city’s five districts posing a serious health threat to its people. Over 1300 brick kilns around city’s five districts --Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Munshiganj, and Manikganj are running illegally under the very nose of the autho...
City people know Hatirjheel as a symbol of art for its construction, and style for its beauty. But now city people have to bear a lot to live with it. The colour of the Hatirjheel water has taken on that of dirt, a smelly dirty mess. At the same time, the quantity of garbage floating on the water ha...
Shortage of forensic experts in the country’s 36 government medical colleges and hospitals is creating ‘serious difficulties’ to perform an autopsy of dead bodies. There are only 27 forensic experts are currently working at 36 government medical colleges and hospitals. As a result,...
About 58% of patients seek treatment from drugstores, homeopathy doctors, Hakim-Kabiraj, Ojha, Pir, Baidya and others. According to stats given by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), more than half of the patients do not receive proper medical care. It further says that most people in the country...
Majorities of the 84 lakh diabetic patients in the country don’t know they have diabetes, according to the Diabetes Association of Bangladesh or better known as Bangladesh Diabetic Somiti (BADAS). The organization also reveals that out of every 10 persons at least one develops diabetes in Bang...
Acute session jam may grip several reputed public universities pushing thousands of students’ education life as well as career into uncertainty as there is no sign of easing longstanding unrest in those academic institutions. The current unrest in Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh Univ...
Two years ago, Salma Begum of Krishnapur Paikpara village of Kurigram went to the District Legal Aid office to seek legal assistance. She returned to her father's house two years ago after being tortured by her husband. After bagging dowry, her husband Saidul divorced her.In November 2017, she a...
The tilted electric poles and live wires hanging ominously overhead in public places pose a “serious” threat to human life. A little contact and this might be the end of a precious life. A number of electric poles in capital Dhaka, other metropolitan cities, district downs, upazila...
Prices of different life-saving medicines continue to show alarming hikes, a matter of serious concern, and forcing the lower income general patients away from essential drugs. The prices of many drugs are logically expected to remain within the buying capacity of the common patients as the National...
Showing an increasing trend of death from snakebite, more than 6000 people die from the bite of venomous snakes every year in the country. On average 16 people die from snakebite per day in the country which has become a silent concern yet snakebites are not considered a major health problem in Bang...
National Institute of Mental Health in cooperation with World Health Organization reveals in a survey entitled, National Mental Health Survey, Bangladesh 2018-‘19 that 17% of adults in Bangladesh are suffering from mental health complications of which 16.8% are men and 17 % are women. Am...
Private bus service owners in the capital city are not following any rules while realizing fares from bus passengers fixed by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). There are many allegations against these so-called high quality-seating service public transports in the capital majority of w...
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