The government has approved a new National Drug Pricing Policy, introducing a formula-based system to regulate the prices of medicines and allowing pharmaceutical companies to raise the prices of new generic drugs by up to 33%. Under the policy, all medicine prices must now remain within a...
The prevalence of hypertension and other non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh is increasing at an alarming rate. According to a report by the World Health Organization, 283,000 people died from cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh in 2024, with hypertension accounting for 52 percent of these...
The Nipah virus has re-emerged in Bangladesh as a grave public health concern, with experts warning that its recent trajectory is more alarming than at any point in the past two decades. Over the last two years, every recorded patient infected with the virus has died, a stark statistic that has...
The interim government is set to fix the prices of 295 essential medicines, with the new rates to take effect within the next few days, according to Dr Md Sayedur Rahman, the special assistant to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The announcement was made at a press conference at...
Suffering from some eye-related ailments, I visited a hospital specialising in ophthalmology last evening. It has been 5 years since my last visit, and while the whole process was quite fast, the financial cost at the end was quietening. And it posed an epiphany - a visit to a specialist...
The government has brought into force a far-reaching amendment to the country’s tobacco control framework, significantly tightening restrictions on the production, sale, promotion and use of tobacco and nicotine products. The Smoking and Use of Tobacco Products (Control) (Amendment) Ordinance,...
