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As many as 11,495 posts of doctors are vacant in government hospitals and health service institutions across the country. Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain said initiatives have been taken to reduce the manpower crisis in public healthcare by filling these posts quickly.
A diabetic patient died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after following advice to stop insulin and take keto diet and supplements. Following the incident, the Directorate General of Health Services has formed a six-member committee to investigate allegations against Dr. Jahangir Kabir's organisation 'Health Revolution Limited'.
The number of deaths from measles and measles-like symptoms is increasing in the country. In the last 24 hours, four more people died from these diseases. With this, the death toll from measles and its symptoms since March 15 this year has risen to 991.
Four more people have died from dengue in the last 24 hours. With this, the number of dengue deaths this year has risen to 111.
Two more people died from dengue in the country in the last 24 hours. With this, the number of deaths from dengue this year has reached 90.
Three more people have died with measles symptoms in the country in the last 24 hours. However, the health directorate said no one died of confirmed measles during this period.
In the last 24 hours, five more people died with measles symptoms in the country, three of them from Sylhet division. During the same period, 1,110 new patients showed measles symptoms, and measles was confirmed in another 70 people.
In the last 24 hours, seven more people have died with measles symptoms in the country. With this, since March 15, 850 people have died with measles symptoms and 99 with confirmed measles. In total, the death toll stands at 950.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain has instructed to quickly form an effective committee for infection prevention and control.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain has expressed his determination to discharge his responsibilities at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with integrity and uphold its reputation. He said no form of irregularity would be tolerated at the ministry, and no one would be allowed to engage in wrongdoing.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain has commented that the mismanagement created over 17 years in the health sector cannot be eliminated in a month or two.
The government has extended the contract-based appointment of Professor Dr. Nazmul Hossain, Director General (DG) of the Health Education Directorate, by one more year.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. M A Muht said the government views the rights and services of persons with disabilities not as charity, but as constitutional and civil rights. Work is underway with a coordinated action plan of different ministries under the Inter-Ministerial Coordination and Implementation Committee on Disability Rights and Service Protection to ensure that every person with disabilities can enjoy equal rights like all other ordinary citizens.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain and Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Mohammad Shuhada Othman have stressed the need to further strengthen mutual cooperation in the health sector between Bangladesh and Malaysia.
Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has announced that 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be spent on the health sector. He said this at a doctors' rally organized on the occasion of the 37th founding anniversary of the Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) at the LD Hall of the National Parliament on Saturday (August 8).
