Health officials and experts have stressed coordinated efforts and a national plan to battle the current onslaught of dengue. Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) adviser and infectious disease expert Dr Mostaq Hossain said it is not possible to control dengue without concerted efforts. To eliminate the breeding ground of Aedes mosquitoes in Dhaka and across the country, a coordinated initiative has to be undertaken, he told UNB. We have a directive from the inter-ministerial task force. There are many initiatives that can be handled individually and many that have to be done in coordination. To clean your flat, you need the coordination of experienced city corporation workers, flat owners association volunteers and local public representatives, he added.
The procedure of giving promotions of the assistant teachers to the post of head teacher in primary schools has started recently.
As the complications over giving promotion of government primary school teachers have been resolved, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education on Thursday issued an office order for the promotion of 201 assistant teachers of Lakshmipur Sadar, Kamalnagar and Raipur upazilas of Lakshmipur district to the post of head teacher (grade-11, pay scale-12500-30230 taka) in view of the recommendations of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission.
With the issuance of this office order, the long-standing desire of the assistant teachers has been over, a press release said here on Thursday.
The recent recommendations made by India
Parliamentary Standing Committee to initiate a meaningful dialogue with
Bangladesh regarding Teesta water sharing agreement has generated hope in
Dhaka.
"It is surely encouraging and meaningful, specially MPs from all political
parties of India are there in this committee. That is why such a
recommendation generated hope among us," spokesperson at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Seheli Sabrin told reporters at the weekly media briefing at
foreign ministry here on Thursday.
She said the committee recommendations to reaching consensus on Teesta
water sharing through meaningful dialogue with Dhaka to strengthen the
further relations between the two countries has drawn attention to the
Bangladesh foreign ministry.
Bangladesh has described the recent recommendations, made by India
Parliamentary Standing Committee, as "encouraging and significant" regarding
the Teesta water-sharing agreement.
"We have also informed regarding the matter from our mission in New Delhi. It
is surely encouraging and significant," she said.
Artificial intelligence could help almost halve the workload of radiologists when it comes to searching routine scans for signs of breast cancer, a large Swedish study suggested on Wednesday.
The interim results of the trial were hailed as promising, but the authors cautioned that more research was needed before AI can be used to screen for breast cancer on a wider scale.
While increasingly convincing chatbots such as ChatGPT have driven speculation about the future potential applications of AI, one area in which the technology has already shown proficiency is in reading medical scans.
With many countries suffering from a shortage of radiologists, there are hopes that AI could make the time-consuming job of analysing routine scans quicker and more accurate.
This could have a particularly large impact for breast cancer. More than 2.3 million women were diagnosed with the cancer in 2020 alone, according to the World Health Organization, and it caused 685,000 deaths.
Regular screening is vital to identifying early signs of cancer. In Europe, women aged 50 to 69 are advised to get a mammogram every two years, with the resulting scan analysed by two radiologists.
The study in Sweden involved the scans of 80,000 women who had mammograms at four sites in southwest Sweden between April 2021 and July last year.