New health policy in 3 months: adviser World Health Day today Staff Correspondent The government will formulate a new health policy within three months to ensure proper healthcare services for all, health and family welfare adviser AMM Shawkat Ali said on Sunday. The new policy will make major changes to the national health guidelines so far framed or proposed to facilitate modernisation of healthcare facilities, he said at a press conference on the eve of World Health Day.

: With the detection of polio virus prevalence in the environs of a couple of towns, health workers in the city will undertake their polio eradication efforts during a three-day immunisation drive being launched across the province on Tuesday.

Tetanus, diphtheria still prevalent among children Alpha Arzu Most of six fatal childhood diseases have noticeable prevalence despite much-hyped national vaccination campaigns for more than two decades with government leaders claiming near-total coverage. The lone state-run Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dhaka still receives a large number of children with tetanus, diphtheria, measles and some other deadly infectious diseases brought under Expanded Programme of Immunisation.

A multi-billion dollar global campaign against AIDS has suffered a serious setback in Bihar where this deadly disease wiped out an entire family. The incident, which has sent shock waves across the region, is a sad commentary on the much-trumpeted awareness campaign against AIDS in the state in which hundreds of NGOs are involved and allegedly making a fast rupee.

By the end of May smokers are going to find it difficult to find a safe place to smoke. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is finalising the new rules for restricting smoking in public places and proposes to publicise the same before No Tobacco Day on May 31.