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
 

Broken items lie strewn on a corridor at Dhaka Shishu Hospital, highlighting the mismanagement there. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Rajib Dhar
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Why government hospital maintenance in a mess

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Pregnant women with dengue at higher risks, doctors warn

Stores out of saline, suppositories as dengue crisis deepens
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Stores out of saline, suppositories as dengue crisis deepens

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Hospitals grappling with rising number of young dengue patients

This file photo shows a grandmother cradling her 1.5-year-old granddaughter on her lap as the mother of the child tries to fix the saline flow at Mugda Hospital in the capital on Sunday, 6 August 2023. Photo: Rajib Dhar
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Hospitals outside Dhaka under strain amid dengue surge

Tk1,288cr to battle mosquito
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Tk1,288cr to battle mosquito

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Dengue: Demand for platelet surges 3-4 times amid blood bag crisis

Pesticide resistance hurting dengue control activities: Study
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Pesticide resistance hurting dengue control activities: Study

Two-year-old Ayesha Siddika, suffering from dengue, is receiving treatment on the corridor floor in front of the children's ward in Mugda Hospital on Thursday. Ayesha came to the hospital from Maniknagar with her mother three days ago. Relatives of another dengue patient in the next bed are looking after Ayesha as her mother goes to get her blood test report. There are 250 patients admitted in the 60-bed children's ward, most of whom are dengue patients. Photo: Tawsia Tajmim
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Inflow of dengue patients overwhelms Dhaka hospitals

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh must prepare for rapidly ageing population: Experts

With new symptoms, dengue turns more unpredictable
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With new symptoms, dengue turns more unpredictable

Districts to have 60 day-care centres to support working mothers
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Districts to have 60 day-care centres to support working mothers

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Women at higher risks as dengue cases, deaths rise alarmingly