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Dengue set to peak, stay cautioned

While the country is preparing to combat pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus, another outbreak of a virus called dengue is gradually escalating at an alarming level. City hospitals are seeing huge number of patients everyday. Health experts warned that if proper measures are delayed, the condition could be more fatal … [বাকিটুকু পড়ুন]

Protecting children from environmental hazards

Children are exposed to serious health risks from environmental hazards. Over 40 percent of the global burden of disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children below five years of age, who account for only about 10 percent of the world’s population.

Environmental risk factors often act in concert, and their … [বাকিটুকু পড়ুন]

Disposal of hospital waste needs urgent policy support: experts

Threat to health

Bdnews24.com

The air is filled with putrid smell of waste strewn on the sidewalk, opposite Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Liquid waste oozing out of the dustbin—doubtlessly toxic—creeps up. Flies, mosquitoes and insects of all descriptions are all over the place with crows and dogs burrowing into piles of garbage for … [বাকিটুকু পড়ুন]

Mass awareness can help prevent filaria

Mass awareness, preventive measures, necessary drugs, development of hygienic environment and mosquito elimination can help cut the harmful filarial disease.

This was revealed at a discussion organised at the training room of Urban Primary Healthcare Project of Rajshahi City Corporation on Tuesday in observance of National Filariasis Day.

Rajshahi Niskrity, a primary … [বাকিটুকু পড়ুন]