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After assurance from the officials of the directorate general of health services about better payment, some 26,000 health assistants will join work from today. Due to their work abstention since November 26, the measles-rubella vaccination campaign for children scheduled for December 6 had to be pushed to December 12. Even after that "no assistant under the banner of Bangladesh Health Assistant Association (BHAA) joined the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination campaign" across the country. "We h...

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s government on Saturday launched a $50 million national campaign to vaccinate millions of children against measles (rubella) despite the coronavirus “health emergency,” officials told Arab News. “In 2019, we noticed a rise in the number of cases of measles, rubella among children in different parts of the country,” Mowla Baksh Chaudhury, program manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), told Arab News. According to the EPI data, 82 cases of measles cases we...