Shaheen Mollah

For the first time in five years, Rezia can walk. The 40-year-old woman had been struggling with her severely swollen right leg that weighed almost 60kg for years. She did not think that she would walk again.

Anyone walking down the street in front of the main entrance to the DMCH emergency unit would encounter an awful sight: used syringes, bandages, dressings, saline bags and many other medical waste littering the pavement.

The police probe into the 2015 attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the city's Karwan Bazar has failed to identify any of the attackers though photographs of many of them were published in the media. The BNP chief's convoy came under attack during a campaign for city corporation election in April. Two and a half years later, her motorcade was attacked twice within only four days this week in Feni.

If you are poor and in jail for some reason and you happen to be seriously ill, you are probably out of luck. But if you are a rich inmate or have political clout, you do not even need to be sick to have extended holidays at the country's leading government hospitals.

With many parents oblivious, an online game has literally been taking the lives of teenagers across the world for the last few years and the game has reached Bangladesh.

Sitting on a tiny bed on the sixth-floor of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), tiny Muskan hopes of one thing only -- to go

The government decision to change the nurses' uniform is being implemented slowly as the majority of the health care providers are reluctant to take up their new attire.

Patients had to queue up and wait long hours to undergo surgery at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic

Eight-year-old Hridoy had a surgery at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital two weeks ago after he had suffered severe injuries to his abdomen while swimming in the Gournadi, Barisal.

Five-year-old Mahin was over the moon as he would celebrate the festivities of Eid with both his parents this year.

Remember schoolboy Adnan Kabir?

Watching a baby crawl across the floor is probably the best sight to behold for parents. But Shahida and Raju Mia, a couple from Gaibandha, are deprived of it, as Shahida last year gave birth to conjoined twins, who could hardly move as per their wish let alone crawl on the floor.

Every time he left Dhaka Shishu Hospital, his parents would have a feeling that their son recovered completely.

Three members of a family, who were critically burned in a gas line explosion in the capital's Gendaria on July 5, are fighting for their

Her parents had been waiting for their 12-year old daughter's death.

At least 20 syndicates are making a fortune by providing gas, power and water illegally to people living in the capital's biggest slum, Korail Bosti. They get an estimated Tk 1.5 crore per month from slum dwellers and a major portion of the money is spent to “manage” the local police station and a section of employees of the three utility service providers.

Illegal gas lines, all faulty and risky, pose a grave danger to one lakh people living in Korail Bosti, a slum built on 90 acres of government land in the capital's Mohakhali.

The medical team treating Bangladesh's first "tree man" Abul Bajandar has performed the 23rd surgery on him as warts partially regrew on his left hand.

The sole bread earner of an eleven-member family, Gias Uddin, a boiler mechanic at Multi-Fabs Dyeing Ltd in Gazipur, has been put in

Thirty-three unclaimed bodies have been decomposing at Dhaka Medical College mortuary, releasing an unbearable stench as the only graveyard in Jurain designated for burying such bodies is inundated with rain water.