বৈষম্য কমাতে চাই কার্যকর প্রাথমিক স্বাস্থ্যসেবা | Prof. Dr. Liaquat Ali | ARK Foundation | Channel24

স্বাস্থ্যসেবা কি শুধু প্রতিশ্রুতির মধ্যেই আটকে থাকবে, নাকি এবার বাস্তব পরিবর্তন আসবে? আর্ক ফাউন্ডেশন ও চ্যানেল 24 আয়োজিত Meet the People টকশোতে প্রফেসর ডা. লিয়াকত আলি খুব স্পষ্ট ভাষায় তুলে ধরেছেন, স্বাস্থ্যখাত সংস্কারের অনেক গুরুত্বপূর্ণ সিদ্ধান্ত এখনই বাস্তবায়ন করা সম্ভব। নির্বাচনের প্রেক্ষাপটে এই আলোচনা আমাদের মনে করিয়ে দেয়, বৈষম্য কমানো ও সার্বজনীন স্বাস্থ্যসেবা নিশ্চিত করার
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শুধু বাজেট বাড়ালেই কি স্বাস্থ্যখাতের সংকট মিটবে? | Prof. Rumana Huque | Channel 24 | ARK Foundation

শুধু বাজেট বাড়ালেই কি স্বাস্থ্যখাতের সংকট মিটবে? আর্ক ফাউন্ডেশন ও চ্যানেল 24 আয়োজিত Meet the People টকশোতে অধ্যাপক রুমানা হক তুলে ধরেছেন স্বাস্থ্যখাতে অর্থায়নের বাস্তব চ্যালেঞ্জ—পরিকল্পনা, বাস্তবায়ন ও জবাবদিহির অভাব কেন স্বাস্থ্যখাতের উন্নতির পথে বড় বাধা হয়ে দাঁড়ায়। এই আলোচনাটি নির্বাচনের আগে রাজনৈতিক দলগুলোর জন্য একটি স্পষ্ট বার্তা দেয়: বাজেটের অঙ্ক নয়, গুরুত্ব দিতে হবে
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Where antibiotics enter the city: what we are learning with drug sellers in Mirpur

Written by: Asiful Haidar Chowdhury (Senior Research Fellow) Late afternoon in Mirpur, the pharmacy counter is busy. Someone wants “something strong” for a cough that has not gone away. Another person asks for an antibiotic by name, confidently, like it’s a household staple. The drug seller has seconds to respond. Refuse, and risk losing the customer
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Closing the Gap: How Urban Primary Health Care Can Achieve Health Equity

Written by: Marhouba Khan Asfi (Research Assistant) Bangladesh is urbanizing rapidly. More people are living in cities every year, and that growth increases demand for services of every kind, including health care. City corporations and municipalities are expected to deliver public services in urban areas, but they face real limits in staffing, funding, space, coordination, and
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Listening Between Appointments, Streets, and Silence

Written by: Nabila Binth Jahan (Junior Research Associate) Fieldwork rarely begins with a recorder switched on. More often, it begins with waiting, outside clinics, in narrow lanes, beside busy roads, or under the sun, hoping someone will spare a few minutes to talk. In the urban slum areas of Dhaka where CHORUS Projects 1 and 2
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When Public Spaces Aren’t Truly Public: Making Physical Activity Safer for Women and Girls in Urban Bangladesh

Written by: Umme Salma Anee (Senior Research Assistant) A park can be five minutes away and still feel unreachable. For many women and adolescent girls in urban Bangladesh, the barrier is not a lack of interest in being active. It is what surrounds the activity itself: the walk to the space, the fear of harassment, the
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Addressing the Knowledge Deficit: Health Education and Public Awareness in Bangladesh

Written by: Kazi Fatin Sami (Research Assistant) Whenever someone goes through a difficult moment in life, a familiar regret tends to appear: “I wish someone had warned me earlier,” or “If only I had known about this risk in advance.” The same pattern holds true for health. For many diseases and health-related conditions, warning signs are
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Behind the Numbers: Verifying Immunization Coverage in the Rohingya Camps

Written by: Ibrahim Hasan (Research Assistant) Some vaccination cards were crisp and complete, the kind you can read in seconds. Others arrived as blurred photos taken in low light, with smudged ink and handwritten dates that could be read two different ways. I spent a lot of time zooming in until the text almost broke apart,
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Field Reality: What We Learned While Assessing Smoke-Free Public Places

Written by: Lenik Chakma (Research Assistant) In some restaurants, the “No Smoking” sign was there, neatly placed on a wall. The smell told a different story. In transport hubs, the rules were visible on paper, but the pace and crowd made enforcement feel like an afterthought. That gap, between what the law says and what people
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The Hidden Tax on Health: Why Diabetes is Bankrupting Bangladesh’s Families

Written by: Sirat-E-Rowshan Islam (Research Uptake and Communication Officer) Mira Bala (pseudonym), a 45-year-old mother of three, living in a small village in a district town with limited healthcare facilities, makes a calculation every morning how many blood sugar test strips she can afford this week. If she buys the full insulin prescription, her eldest daughter’s
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