Dr Shahida Akhter: A tireless physician, researcher and humanitarian
Prof Dr Shahida Akhter (1961-2021)
Professor Dr Shahida Akhter, a well-known child health specialist, passed away prematurely from liver cancer at 59 years of age on May 1, 2021. She was soft-spoken, introverted, humble and beloved by many people.
The most appropriate portrait of Dr Shahida would be as follows a person and physician endowed with high morals, a symbol of ethical medical practice, an ardent promoter of health rights and health equity, and an activist who fought against all kinds of malpractice in health, including indiscriminate use of expensive life-saving drugs, over-prescription of antibiotics to children, and the practice of unnecessary and profit-driven caesarian operations during child delivery. She was also an uncompromising activist who fought against the unholy alliance of the medical-health-pharmaceutical industrial complex and worked to establish the oft-ignored right to health of ordina
Will soon come out of uncertainty over vaccine availability: Minister
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27th April, 2021 03:15:39
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said the uncertainty over receiving coronavirus vaccine jabs from the Serum Institute of India is likely to be over soon.
“We placed an order for three crore doses of vaccine (from Serum Institute) and paid money. But it’s a matter of regret that we’re not getting the vaccine in due time, disrupting our vaccination activities. The local agent, Beximco, and we’re trying our best to have it,” he said.
The minister said, “Our government is also trying to bring the vaccine jabs and the PMO and the Foreign Ministry have been working on it. Our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has repeatedly requested the Indian Prime Minister to ensure the vaccine supply. So, we hope we may get the vaccine quickly, but we couldn’t know the exact time. We’ll be able to know about it within a few days.”
India’s O2 Export Ban: Health minister calls for calm
78 more die of Covid
Photo: Moudud Ahmmed Sujan Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
When the sudden halt to oxygen import from India may put the country at risk if the number of Covid-19 patients rises more, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said there is nothing to panic about the supply of oxygen in the country.
There is no shortage of oxygen at the hospitals and the government is working to increase the stock and capacity, the minister said in a press conference at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dhaka yesterday.
No shortage of oxygen: Health Minister
Staff Correspondent | banglanews24.com
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said there is be no shortage of oxygen for the patients receiving corona treatment in hospitals.
He was addressing a press conference at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons at Mohakhali in Dhaka on Monday.
Zahid Maleque said oxygen demand has also decreased as the number of patients has decreased.
The minister, however, said there will be crisis, if the number of patients increases three times in the country.
BDST: 2033 HRS, APR 27, 2021
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