Volume 5 Number 24 Sat. June 19, 2004    
 
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More allocation for health sector demanded
Speakers at a meeting yesterday demanded increased budgetary allocation for health sector with emphasis on reproductive health.
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Diploma Medical Assoc stages hunger strike
Bangladesh Diploma Medical Association staged a daylong token hunger strike yesterday demanding immediate implementation of the government decision to rename medical assistants in upazila health complexes
 
Tk 35cr Japanese grant for cyclone shelters
Japan will provide grant assistance worth about Tk 34.8 crore to Bangladesh for the construction of multipurpose cyclone shelters in phase five of the disaster-mitigation scheme.
 
Bharati shares her experience as a writer in the West
India-born American writer Bharati Mukherjee has said she had to undergo various adverse phases of identity crisis and racial marginalisation both as a woman writer and a South Asian during her earlyyears
 
Attack on Bikalpa Dhara supporters during polls campaign
A motorcade of Major (retd.) Abdul Mannan, a candidate of Bikalpa Dhara for Dhaka-10 by-polls, came under attack during his election campaign at East Razabazar in the city yesterday.
 
Cuta work abstention begins today
The Chittagong University Teachers' Association (Cuta) begins a weeklong work abstention programme today to press for its demand for dissolution of the selection boards formed by the tenure-expired syndicate.
 
Fire at Birdem canteen
A fire broke out in a canteen at the Birdem Hospital yesterday, creating panic among the doctors, patients and officials.

However, there were no casualties.

 
Diagnostic lab of int'l standard set up in Chokoria
The ICDDR,B, a centre for health and population research, has set up a diagnostic laboratory of international standard at Chokoria, Cox's Bazar, to meet the healthcare needs of more than one million people
 

 
   
 
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