HealthThe 50-bed upazila health complex in Ishwarganj, Mymensingh, holds 70 to 85 inpatients a day; with no gynaecologist, operations for pregnant women have stopped, and medicines run short.
OpinionWriting in Daily Bangladesh, physician and social worker M R Karim Reza says patients are the victims of a commission network from hospital to village, and calls for public capacity, regulation and investment. The views are the writer's own.
In a Daily Star column, AKM Iqbal Bahar and Raihanul Jannat argue that Dhaka's health question is not the number of hospitals but access, affordability and fair distribution: a question of urban planning.
HealthMasudur Rahman of Monirampur, Jessore, needs a kidney transplant and his mother has agreed to donate, but the family cannot find anywhere in the country to do the donor's 'DTPA renogram with split function and GFR' test; he is on dialysis twice a week.
HealthA mother of newborn twins at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital told the health minister she had to buy all her medicines, saline and even gloves; on a surprise visit he promised action against absent doctors.
HealthAt the National Cancer Conference 2026, health minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain said most of the health budget is planned for cancer care, delays in installing equipment will end, and technologists will be trained within three months if needed.
HealthVisiting Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, State Minister for Health Dr M A Muhit called hospital touts a national disease and said rules are also coming on clinics near government hospitals and on government doctors working in them.
Doctors posted to the five health sub-centres of Araihazar, Narayanganj, are attached elsewhere or absent; pharmacists and midwives run some centres and Kalapahariya is closed.
HealthThe 500-bed hospital holds 1,300 to 1,400 inpatients a day while 88 of its 218 doctor posts are vacant, and with the MRI and CT scanner broken, patients pay for tests at private centres.
HealthPabna Mental Hospital, founded in 1957 and now with 500 beds, sees 100 to 150 outpatients a day but has nowhere for patients and relatives to sit or rest; the hospital says a dormitory for families is planned as part of an upgrade.
HealthThe only government hospital for about 144,000 people in Chandpur's Haimchar upazila has 56 of 131 posts vacant, no consultant, no operating theatre, X-ray or ultrasound, and an upgrade from 31 to 50 beds begun in 2019 is still unfinished.
Koyra upazila health complex in Khulna has been upgraded to 50 beds on paper but is treating patients in a 19-bed building, six years after the old 31-bed block was demolished without a replacement being finished.
HealthAfter the 24 September attack and looting, repairs at the Radda MCH-FP centre in Mirpur-1 are moving fast; 35 children were vaccinated and 21 women treated on Saturday, but full services await equipment including ultrasound machines.
