Health Ministry

Health Ministry

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Shakhawat Hossain, State Minister for Health MA Muhit, and Health Secretary Md Saidur Rahman at an introductory meeting with ministry officials at the Secretariat on 19 February 2026. Photo: Courtesy

Shakhawat vows spot-monitoring to ensure quality healthcare

The health minister stated that the government would not tolerate any "syndicates" or vested interests within the sector and warned that everyone must be answerable to the public.

Photo:Collected

Top priority is to make health ministry corruption-free: Minister Shakhawat

File photo of Farida Akhter, adviser to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock. Photo: Collected

Tobacco control is not only health ministry's responsibility: Farida Akhter

Representational image. Photo: Freepik

Typhoid vaccination from 12 Oct, fully safe for children: CA’s special assistant Sayedur

Ministry of Health & Family welfare. File Photo

Govt considers closing substandard medical colleges to secure public health future

Health ministry forms 11-member committee to boost API industry

Health ministry forms 11-member committee to boost API industry

Two health ministry officials sent into forced retirement

Two health ministry officials sent into forced retirement

Representational image. Photo: Collected

Govt cuts prices of 10 cardiac stents by up to 47%

A crane removes debris from the BAF fighter jet that crashed into Milestone School and College on Monday, 21 July 2025. Photo: Olid Ibna Shah/TBS

Health ministry revises death toll from Milestone jet crash to 33

Photo was taken on 21 July by Syed Zakir Hossain/ TBS

Govt to bear full treatment costs for Milestone plane crash victims

Representational image: WHO

Health ministry urges public to wear masks amid rising Covid-19 infections

This photo shows the closed gate of the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIOH) in Dhaka's Agargaon on 31 May, 2025. Photo: Collected

National Eye Institute closed for 4 days, patients asked to seek care at nearby hospitals

Illustration: TBS

Govt initiates assessing bacteria use to prevent dengue