Unauthorised companies are smuggling a number of cardiac medical devices into the country and selling those to some of Dhaka’s top public and private hospitals without proper vetting, raising questions about health regulations and patient safety.
Treatment of seriously ill dengue patients is being affected by an acute shortage of the kit needed to extract platelets from whole blood in a method that requires only a single donor.
The deaths of Mahbuba Rahman Akhi and her newborn, following a botched C-section at the Central Hospital, have raised a few questions about the condition of gynaecological care in the country.