Tawsia Tajmim

Tawsia Tajmim is a Staff Correspondent at The Business Standard. She specialises in health reporting. She can be reached at tawsia.tasu@gmail.com
 

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Health

Is Rangpur emerging as a new anthrax cluster?

Infogeaphics: TBS
Health

Why children are getting infected with bird flu in Bangladesh

File Photo: Rajib Dhar
Health

Dengue spreads to all 64 districts, situation may worsen in Dhaka and 14 districts next week: IEDCR

Children receive treatment during Bangladesh's measles outbreak. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
Health

Measles deaths near 1,000 as infection spreads across all child age groups

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Bangladesh

Govt to hire 5,000 doctors, 1 lakh health staff for improved grassroots care

National Gastro-Liver Institute. Photo: Collected
Health

Govt plans expansion of National Gastro-Liver Institute

Representational image of a hospital. Photo: Magnific
Health

Four years after opening, Super Specialised Hospital heads for corporate model

File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Health

Dengue cases surge; experts warn outbreak could worsen

A nurse prepares a measles-rubella vaccine in Yangon, Myanmar, November 26, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Ann Wang
Industry

Govt aims to fulfil WHO vaccine industry requirements by May 2027 to boost investment, export

Illustration: TBS
Health

Govt plans permanent campuses for 6 medical colleges, incentives to resolve teacher shortage

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Health

Govt moves to open 24 unused trauma centres across country

Children receive treatment during Bangladesh's measles outbreak. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
Health

Primary healthcare gets priority; measles, dengue pose challenges

Amid a severe measles outbreak in Dhaka, a large number of children are receiving treatment at the DNCC COVID-19 Dedicated Hospital in Mohakhali, where new cases are rising daily, and patients are being referred from various hospitals. Photo: Mehedi Hasan
Health

92% of measles deaths among unvaccinated children, 16 lakh more children up for shots