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

Buildings almost ready, equipment missing: Specialised hospitals project delayed to 2028

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Health

Measles still persists while dengue cases also rising

File photo of Bangladesh Medical University Super Specialised Hospital.
Health

Govt plans corporate-style management for Super Specialised Hospital

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Health

Rare disease patients gain hope as Beximco launches affordable cystic fibrosis drug

Dengue patients at a Dhaka hospital. File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Health

Dengue cases surge outside Dhaka as districts account for 78% of hospital cases

A growing number of children infected with measles are receiving treatment at the DNCC Covid-19 Dedicated Hospital in Mohakhali amid a severe outbreak in Dhaka. The hospital is seeing a steady rise in new admissions every day, with many patients being referred from other healthcare facilities. Most of the affected patients are children. Photo: Mehedi Hasan
Health

Post-measles complications rising among children

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Health

Cancer care takes centre stage in govt's health services expansion drive

A woman nebulises a child undergoing treatment for measles at a hospital. Photo: TBS
Health

Antibiotic resistance drives up child deaths, treatment costs amid measles outbreak

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Budget

Health allocation doubles, crosses 1% of GDP for first time

Nevian’s Managing Director Musawath Shams Zahedee. Sketch: TBS
Interviews

Nevian's Canada export opens a new horizon for pharma industry: MD

A man holds a newborn child who died of reasons yet unknown at the Ad-din Medical College Hospital in Mogbazar, Dhaka, in an ambulance marked by the hospital's name, on 27 May 2026. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Health

Six newborn deaths at Ad-Din Hospital: Cause still unknown, lack of autopsy complicates probe

Nazma Begum holds a photo of her twin sons, who died in the Ad-Din Hospital incident. Photo: TBS
Health

'I endured the pain of carrying twins, now my babies are gone because of the hospital's negligence'

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Health

Dengue situation could worsen this year, fear experts