Special Reporter

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) charge-sheeted accused Md Nasir Uddin has been appointed as the chief of the Bureau of Health Education under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has appointed him to the post despite his having been named i

Jewel Rana, 45, has been riding a motorcycle for more than a decade and relies on ride-sharing as his sole source of income. He rides for around seven hours a day and has developed pain in his knee joints and muscles as a result. To get relief, he started using a massage therapy device purchased fr

Ahsania Mission Cancer and General Hospital collects zakat and donations in the name of providing treatment and welfare services to patients. It also receives substantial funds every year from public and private organisations, institutions and individuals. However, former officials and insiders all

A total of 162 RT-PCR labs were installed on the World Bank and government budget during Covid-19 pandemic. It was spent BDT 211 crore to install these labs. After ending the pandemic and the tenure of the project, most of the RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Test) machines

Despite applying two years ago, pharmaceutical companies have yet to receive price approval from the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA). As a result, locally produced pharmaceutical raw materials worth nearly Tk 200 million cannot be released to the market. Unable to sell the products

• 324 licensed pharmaceutical companies on paper, but 66 have no actual existence • Market dominance of major groups continues to grow • Industry calls for incentives to help smaller manufacturers survive Bangladesh has 324 licensed pharmaceutical manufacturers, but 98 percent of the country's