Health Workers

Kerala became India’s first state to report the outbreak and has the highest number of positive patients till now. But, it managed to completely comply with the mitigation process and ensured maximum efficiency to save lives. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Covid frontline health workers face emotional challenges

Health professionals from different counties shared their experiences in an international webinar titled “Covid-19 and frontline responders: Health professional perspectives”

Mushtaque Chowdhury (left) and Fawzia Rasheed (right).
Thoughts

Covid-19: Community health workers as first line of defence

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Health

DGHS dedicates hospital for doctors, health workers following ultimatum

Representational Image. File Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

24% health workers still don’t have PPE: Research

FILE PHOTO: A nurse, wearing protective gear and face mask, checks the temperature of a patient at the post Covid-19 unit of the Clinique Breteche private hospital in Nantes during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in France, April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Coronavirus chronicle

More than 600 nurses worldwide have died from coronavirus, group says

The lack of sufficient testing kits, ICUs and personal protective equipment (PPE) has posed challenges for healthcare professionals since the very beginning of the outbreak in Bangladesh. Photo: UNB
Health

Govt eyes WHO standard in health worker distribution by 2030

FILE PHOTO: A nurse, wearing protective gear and face mask, checks the temperature of a patient at the post Covid-19 unit of the Clinique Breteche private hospital in Nantes during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in France, April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Coronavirus chronicle

Over 90,000 health workers infected with Covid-19 worldwide: nurses group

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Covid-19 in Bangladesh

90 health workers including 15 doctors test positive for Covid-19 in Narayanganj

Health workers form human chain demanding arrears in Narayanganj
Bangladesh

Health workers form human chain demanding arrears in Narayanganj

Siddika Akter, Director General, Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery receiving PPE delivery from Grameen Fabrics and Fashion Ltd (GFFL).
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Front-line medical workers receive Grameen produced PPEs

ACC warns of legal action if health workers asked to vacate homes
Health

ACC warns of legal action if health workers asked to vacate homes

Photo: A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Coronavirus chronicle

Over 22,000 healthcare workers infected by COVID-19: WHO

Photo caption: On behalf of Summit, Vice-Chairman of Summit Group Md Farid Khan handed over two more thermal scanners and on behalf of Summit and CMPort handed over personal protective gears and masks especially made for medical professionals to Brig Gen Md Shahidullah, Director of Central Medical Store Depot.
Corporates

Summit and CMPort jointly support Bangladesh’s medical workers