DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhal Huq Sunday told parliament that some 3,551 doctors appointed on ad-hoc basis would join soon to resolve the prevailing doctors’ crisis.“The ministry has already provided necessary guidelines to ensure their joining. The government

DHAKA: Environmentalists Saturday expressed apprehension that millions of people of Bangladesh are victims of poisonous lead-mixed colours, the old and children being in a vulnerable situation.  “More than 80 percent people, including pregnant women, of the country are at high risk of

DHAKA: Experts Saturday suggested forming an independent regularity body and appointing an ombudsman for curbing irregularities in the country’s ill-managed health sector.As rules and regulations are being hardly maintained in the sector in the absence of proper management and

DHAKA: The government has decided to stick red and green labels on the packets or bottles of government-supplied medicines, Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Huq said Sunday about the measure meant for preventing reported rampant pilferage of medical supplies.    “If such a branded