HealthAbout 283,800 people died of heart disease in Bangladesh in 2024, 52% of them because of high blood pressure, yet only 4.2% of the health budget goes to non-communicable diseases, a Dhaka workshop heard.
HealthA two-month campaign promotes front-of-pack warnings on packaged food high in sugar, salt and saturated fat; the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority says it is drafting regulations on such labels.
HealthA PROGGA workshop heard that 570,263 people die of non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh each year, about 71 per cent of all deaths, while only 4.2 per cent of the health budget goes to controlling them.
HealthHealth Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain Bokul said infrastructure, recruitment of doctors and midwives and training are being stepped up to bring breast cancer screening to the grassroots; about 63 per cent of women with the disease are never screened.
Professor Sohel Reza Choudhury of the National Heart Foundation explains the differences between ischaemia, heart failure, arrhythmia, valve disease and congenital heart disease.
A World Heart Day webinar heard that 52 per cent of about 283,800 heart-disease deaths in Bangladesh in 2024 were linked to hypertension, while NCDs get just 4.2 per cent of the health budget.
HealthThe WHO says about 71 per cent of deaths in Bangladesh are from non-communicable diseases such as stroke, diabetes, heart disease, chronic respiratory disease, cancer and kidney disease; doctors urge prompt care for warning signs such as central chest pain.
