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Price freeze drives saline makers to cut output, triggering shortages

Behind the shortage is a mismatch between a regulated price and rising costs.

Salinity and climate change are quietly stealing girls’ time, health, and childhoods. Photos: Shaharin Amin Shupty

A childhood carried in water pitchers: Climate change and lost girlhoods in coastal Bangladesh

Health authorities finding ways to avoid saline shortage as dengue outbreak looms

Health authorities finding ways to avoid saline shortage as dengue outbreak looms

Women in Bagerhat’s Kachua upazila walk to a solar-powered pond sand filter plant in Goualmath village to fetch drinking water. More than 30,000 people from 25 surrounding villages buy freshwater from the plant for Tk1 per pitcher as the area’s groundwater is often salty and contaminated with arsenic. The photo was taken recently. Photo: TBS

Saline water woes: Innovative projects transform coastal lives

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

Pharmas asked to boost baby saline production as pneumonia, diarrhoea on rise

Dengue patients undergoing treatment at Savar Upazila Health Complex. Photo: TBS

Dengue patients allege being denied saline despite ample supply at Savar health complex

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Health directorate sends saline packets to meet hospital needs

Two diagnostic centres sealed off; one hospital fined for selling saline at higher prices

Two diagnostic centres sealed off; one hospital fined for selling saline at higher prices

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Poor treatment, saline shortage add to dengue patients’ woes outside Dhaka

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Govt to import 20 lakh bags of saline

Dengue-infected patients receive treatment at Mugda Medical College and Hospital in the capital recently. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Why is Saline so elusive?

Director General of the DNCRP AHM Safikuzzaman said on Wednesday (13 September) at the TCB building in the capital’s Karwan Bazar.

Action if salines sold at hiked prices: Consumer rights body

File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Biggest saline producer runs at 25% capacity for 'capital crunch'