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
 

Photo Courtesy: UNICEF Bangladesh/2016
Health

Child nutrition stagnates amid persistent wasting, low dietary diversity: Survey

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Health

Half of population in Bangladesh seeks medical care from unqualified providers: Survey

Illustration photo shows various medicine pills Photo: REUTERS/Yves Herman/Illustration
Industry

Pharma in crisis as costs soar but prices stay fixed

The people of Hariabari village receives health services from community clinic. Thousands of mothers and adolescent girls received service last year. Photo: Courtesy
Health

Non-communicable disease services to be taken to rural communities

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Health

Policy hurdles, import syndicates, counterfeits holding back Tk41,000cr medtech market

Diabetes crisis deepens in Bangladesh, unhealthy work culture to blame
Health

Diabetes crisis deepens in Bangladesh, unhealthy work culture to blame

Photo: Collected via UNB
Health

With no suitable vaccine in sight, Bangladesh focuses more on clinical care to fight dengue 

Illustration: Duniya Jahan/TBS
Health

Young adults account for half of all dengue deaths this year

From Tk60,000 to Tk4,000: How local pharma makes cancer drugs affordable
Health

From Tk60,000 to Tk4,000: How local pharma makes cancer drugs affordable

Significant numbers of unreported Covid-19 deaths can falsely suggest to the international development partners that Bangladesh has been little affected by the coronavirus. Photo: Reuters
Infrastructure

1000-bed hospital in Nilphamari to transform northern regions’ medical care

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Health

Govt to offer 70% pay incentive to teachers in basic medical subjects

Representational image of stroke. Photo: Unsplash
Health

Life-saving modern stroke treatment still Dhaka-centric

A pharmacist at Renata's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. Photo: Collected
Supplement

Bangladesh’s pharma industry moves from import dependence to global prominence