BHRF Newsroom
Reporting, analysis, and long reads from BHRF members across print, online, and television.
Health-directorate figures show admissions up 38 percent over last week, with the heaviest load in Mugda, Mitford, and the Shaheed Suhrawardy hospitals.
By Rumana Akter·
An IEDCR pre-monsoon survey has flagged 14 wards with Breteau indices above the WHO threshold — most clustered around the new metro alignment.
By Rumana Akter·
An editorial on the gap between hospital-admissions data and ward-level transmission, and why we still cannot answer the simplest question parents are asking.
By Mahmudul Hasan·
Hospitals in Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, and Mirpur are reporting sustained increases in nebulisation visits among under-fives, paediatricians say.
By Imran Hossain·
Two-day intensive in Dhaka — applications close 12 May. Open to working journalists from print, broadcast, and online newsrooms.
By Mahmudul Hasan·
Three decades of midwifery investment, community clinics, and Bangladeshi exceptionalism are running into a stubborn last-mile problem.
By Nasrin Sultana·
Our committee's full submission to the parliamentary standing committee on health, with seven recommendations on graphic warnings, point-of-sale display, and e-cigarettes.
By Tobibur Rahman·
Across six districts, BHRF documented patients being turned away, prescriptions left unfilled, and psychiatric wards used for non-clinical purposes.
The four-week intensive, supported by Internews and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, produced eight publishable investigations across health and the environment.
By Nasrin Sultana·
The DGHS additional director-general talks to BHRF about the post-COVID surveillance reset, what data the country still does not collect, and why.
By Mahmudul Hasan·
Bangladesh's health spend as a share of the national budget has barely moved in a decade. The case for a 10 percent floor has stopped being aspirational.
By Arif Khan·
icddr,b modelling suggests that the dengue and chikungunya transmission window in the coastal belt could lengthen by six to nine weeks within a decade.
By Rumana Akter·
