After seeing the work of the nuns at the Catholic Church's 80 health care facilities across Bangladesh, many girls from remote areas now show interest in becoming nurses, which was unimaginable 20 years ago.
An obstetric fistula usually happens to poor, pregnant women in remote areas. If a dead baby stays inside the uterus for a long time, the blood flow to different parts of the reproductive organs is stopped, the different parts of the birth canal are damaged, resulting in a wound that creates a hole between the reproductive organs and the bladder and/or anus, resulting in the
A group of EPR (East Pakistan Regiment) members attacked the occupational convoy on Dhaka-Tangail Road. It was the first armed resistance outside Dhaka and Gazipur. After which, the Pakistan forces sought revenge by killing more than 100 people, including villagers, EPR members and freedom fighters.