Health Service
Bangladesh to get $940m ADB loan for vaccine purchasing
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a loan package of $940 million for Bangladesh to purchase safe and effective...
Pfizer-BioNTech shots in Bangladesh being administered
The health authorities in Bangladesh have started administering the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines at three centres in Dhaka, from 21st...
Guardian Life Insurance inaugurates telemedicine service
Guardian Life Insurance Limited has recently inaugurated a virtual medical and health consultancy service called Dr Guardian exclusively for...
Safety gears donated by Nagad to BSMMU
Nagad, a mobile financing platform, on June 16 donated safety gears to the frontline coronavirus fighters of Bangabandhu Sheikh...
Pandemic creates increasing demand for online medicine delivery services
The pandemic has created a rising demand for online medicine delivery services. Before the pandemic only a handful of...
HEALTHx inked MoU with IEB
The digital healthcare startup HEALTHx and the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) have signed an MoU on May 1...
Govt likely to appoint NGOs to inoculate marginal people
The government is considering appointing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to inoculate disadvantaged people for Covid-19, according to a senior health...
Govt. appointed EPB to issue health certificate for export goods
The Ministry of Commerce has recently appointed the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) to issue certification with ‘fit for human...
Second shot of Covid-19 vaccine will begin from 7th April
On 23rd February, Health minister Zahid Maleque, announced that administration of the second shot of the vaccine would begin...
Scottish study revealed high effectiveness of Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccines
On 22nd February (Monday), preliminary study findings stated that Scotland's vaccination campaign significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization for...
Second consignment of 20 lakh vaccine doses reached Dhaka
On 23rd February (Tuesday), 2nd shipment of 20 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Bangladesh carried by a...
Bangladesh outshines the neighbors in vaccination
Bangladesh outshines its South Asia neighbors except the Maldives in Covid-19 vaccination, as more than 1 per cent of...
Health authority rethinking about the first month’s vaccination target
Since the mass vaccination campaign has been geared up, the health authority is thinking to refix the target of...
Vaccination campaign geared up
The COVID-19 vaccination has started a nationwide campaign 336 days after Bangladesh reported its first three COVID-19 cases on...
36 districts have received the COVID-19 vaccine so far while no major problems reported from the people taking the shot
The government has begun supplying the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to different districts from Dhaka as the mass inoculation campaign...
