According to a recent study conducted by nephrologists of Shaheed Suhrawardi Medical College, around 40 percent of kidney patients cannot afford dialysis at all and 90 percent of them discontinued treatment after three to four months. Roughly 50 percent of these patients die within two years of kidney failure.
Long queues for Covid vaccine
50 lakh doses likely to arrive by Monday
Diplomatic Correspondent | Published: 23:57, Jul 17,2021 | Updated: 00:50, Jul 18,2021
People wait in queues, many ignoring health rules, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday for Covid vaccine. Focus Bangla photo
Hundreds of people showed up for receiving Covid vaccine in vaccination centres in the capital and elsewhere while about two lakh doses were administered across the country on Saturday.
Long queues were seen in several major vaccination centres, including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Shaheed Suhrawardi Medical College Hospital, where people of different age groups, mostly above 35 years, gathered for vaccine.
She could only watch as racing buses crushed her mother
Suraiya Akhter was witness to her mother, Parveen, being crushed between two buses in Gulistan. Traumatised by the incident Akhter and her father broke down in tears at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after Parveen was declared dead. Photo: Collected
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
A daughter watched her mother being crushed to death between two buses, the drivers of which were competing to get ahead, at an intersection in Gulistan yesterday.
Witnesses said the tragic incident happened around 1:00pm when the deceased, Parveen Begum, 48, and her daughter Suraiya Akhter were crossing the road to catch a Munshiganj-bound bus to return home.