health sector

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Motazzerul Islam Mithu is flanked by policemen on the premises of a Dhaka court on 18 September 2025. Photo: TBS

Health sector graft: Contractor Mithu placed on 5-day remand

Earlier, on the night of 10 September, detectives arrested Mithu in Dhaka’s New Market area, later turning him over to the ACC.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Photo: collected

Line director and program manager posts abolished in health sector

Protesters block the Dhaka-Barishal Highway at Nathullabad bus terminal in Barishal on 12 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Road blockades, hunger strike continue in Barishal over health sector reform

Health sector reform: Many plans, little progress on system overhaul

Health sector reform: Many plans, little progress on system overhaul

The busy road has been blocked for the fifth consecutive day, and their protests demanding modernisation of healthcare services at Barishal's Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital entered its 16th day. Photo: UNB

Health sector 'irregularities': Dhaka-Barishal highway blocked again

At around 11am, they blocked the Dhaka–Barishal Highway at Nathullabad, chanting slogans against irregularities in the health sector and halting traffic between Barishal and six southern districts. Photo: TBS

Barishal Health Sector protest enters 14th day, highway blockade sparks clashes with security forces

Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Prof Dr Md Sayedur Rahman. -File Photo/BSS

Govt identifies 10 ‘diseases’ in health sector, but what are the cures? 

Illustration: TBS

The future of medicine: How innovations will catalyse quantum leaps in healthcare by 2055

Graphics: TBS

Bangladesh’s healthcare at crossroads: Progress stalled by policy failures

Illustration: Duniya Jahan/TBS

Budget FY26: Health sector gets Tk41,908cr

File photo of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus during a speech at the Civil Surgeons' Conference at his office on 12 May 2025. Photo: Screengrab

25% of issues in health sector will disappear if the system is improved: CA Yunus

Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS

$23b market projection sparks investment calls in health sector

Representational image. Photo: Eias.org

Interim govt seeks to rationalise health sector funding in ADP