HealthChattogram opens a public PET-CT lab, sparing cancer patients the trip to Dhaka
The INMAS lab beside Chattogram Medical College Hospital, with its own cyclotron, scanned six patients on day one at about half the Dhaka private price.
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Dainik Azadi
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HealthFisheries
Dried fish season opens on the Anwara coast, but the sea is giving little
Fishers on the Gohira coast in Anwara, Chattogram, have started drying fish for the winter season, but thin catches since the fishing ban ended have them worried about production.
HealthSubsidised dialysis at Chattogram Medical College to continue for six more months
The health directorate is extending its PPP contract with Sandor Dialysis Services at Chattogram Medical College Hospital by six months, a relief for 276 kidney patients who pay Tk 621 a session.
HealthApril 2024 heatwave linked to 5,515 extra preterm births in Bangladesh
A new Zero Carbon Analytics study links the April 2024 heatwave to an estimated 5,515 additional preterm births in Bangladesh, at least 1,479 of which would not have occurred without human-caused climate change; 47 percent were in Dhaka and Chattogram divisions.
EnvironmentChattogram's waste could make 12-15 MW of power, a Japanese feasibility study finds
A study backed by Japan's environment ministry finds Chattogram could process about 1,000 tonnes of waste a day into 12 to 15 megawatts of electricity; meeting a JFE Engineering team, Dr Shahadat Hossain said he wants the project carried out.
EnvironmentChattogram's first modern sewerage zone to open in June, serving two million
Zone one of Chattogram WASA's roughly Tk 5,500 crore sewerage project is 78 percent built; from June the waste of 28,000 homes in 21 wards will go to treatment plants at Halishahar instead of canals and rivers.
FisheriesBanshkhali has over 50,000 fishers but only 13,794 registered, leaving most without help in the ban
During the 22-day ban to protect brood hilsa, only 13,794 of the more than 50,000 people who live by fishing in Banshkhali, Chattogram, are registered, and about 6,500 have received government rice.
CropsGumai Beel grows a record 3,500 hectares of Aman as kilns and encroachment eat its land
Rangunia's Gumai Beel in Chattogram has a record 3,500 hectares of Aman rice now coming into ear, but encroachment, urban growth and brick kilns have taken about 50 hectares of its farmland in a decade.
EnvironmentTown waste dumped inside Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary at night
Rubbish from Batali station in Chattogram's Lohagara has been dumped at night in the Banpukur and Jangalia areas of Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary for about 15 days; the range officer promises legal action.
Rooftop farmingColumn: make rooftop gardening a social movement with training and free saplings
Writing in Dainik Azadi, Debashish Kanti Biswas argues that rooftop gardens add oxygen to city air and give families chemical-free food, and that training and free saplings would spread them to towns and villages alike.
HealthChattogram dengue patients treated on hospital floor without nets
At Chattogram Medical College Hospital, 48 of 80 dengue patients lay on verandah floors beyond a 32-bed ward, many without mosquito nets; the director wants the CRB railway hospital made a dedicated dengue hospital.
FisheriesPatiya stocks 47 institutional ponds with 250 kg of disease-free carp fingerlings
Under a revenue-budget programme, the upazila fisheries office gave 10 to 15 cm rohu, catla, mrigal and kalibaus fingerlings to ponds of institutions in the municipality and unions.
Crops
78 tonnes of urea seized on Chattogram coast as subsidised fertiliser leaks to Myanmar
The seizure of 78 tonnes of urea bound for Myanmar at Mirsarai and Sitakunda in two days has sharpened concern over leakage, hoarding and artificial shortages of subsidised fertiliser ahead of the Boro season; the government says stocks are sufficient.