It all started when she discovered discoloured skin on different parts of her body. But for Rupom Bhumij, a 53-year-old tea worker, seeking a doctor’s advice for what she thought then as a “minor issue” was a luxury she couldn’t afford.
An upazila health complex, responsible for providing medical care to at least five lakh people in and around the upazila, has been unable to perform X-rays for the past 28 years due to the lack of a technician
Tea garden workers in the country’s northeastern region are at high risk of developing leprosy due to their unhygienic living conditions, malnutrition and lack of awareness.
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Seventeen of 63 people who returned from Chapainawabganj have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Moulvibazar this evening. Moulvibazar Civil Surgeon Chowdhury Jalal Uddin Murshed told our Moulvibazar correspondent that the patients have been kept under quarantine and in observation. According to sources at the civil surgeon office, a group of small traders who returned to