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FRIdAY, MARCH 4, 20226On the occasion of the golden jubilee of liberation war, Noakhali University of Science andTechnology (NSTU) Journalist Association held a discussion meeting in memory of the heroic martyrsof the great liberation war.Photo : Manik BhuiyanUnion health centre takes primaryhealthcares to grassrootsRAJSHAHI : Jhikra Union Health andFamily Welfare Center (UH&FWC) hasstarted reaching primary healthcare tothe grassroots people and themarginalized and less-income grouppeople.The facility in Bagmara Upazila of thedistrict has become a blessing for therural pregnant mothers in terms ofgetting emergency healthcare services,including antenatal care (ANC),postnatal care (PNC) and neonatal care.Rafiqul Islam, Chairman of JhikraUnion Parishad (UP), said they havereactivated the facility throughappointing a Family Welfare Visitor(FWV) and need-based renovation withcollaborative and partnership effortsrecently."We have completed the renovationworks at a cost of Taka 2,61,425 lastmonth," he said, adding that PublicHealth Improvement InitiativeRajshahi (PHIIR) project contributed tothe renovation works costing Taka2,35,242, while Taka 26,183 came fromthe UP.Islam said the facility had remainedinoperative for around 18 years since2003 due to multifarious problemsrelated to lack of manpower, electricityand water supply, life-saving drugs andother requisite support.On priority basis, a skilled FWV wasappointed on 11 April last with a jointfinancial contribution of the PHIIRproject and UP.UP Chairman Islam said the laborroom was equipped with all requisitedevices and apparatus on behalf of theproject for conducting normal deliveryafter the deployment of FWV ReziaParvin.The facility have attained trust ofgrassroots people as they are gettingrequisite primary healthcare servicesregularly at their doorsteps in the area,added the public representative."We have maternal and neonatalhealth care services, integratedmanagement of childhood illness,reproductive health, family planningservices and an expanded program onimmunization in the facility," said FWVRezia Parvin.Keya Begum, 24, wife of BazlurRashid of Joandog, is very happy overgetting her necessary postnatal carefrom the facility after her normaldelivery in December last.As her husband remains busy with hisalmost daylong professional works shegoes to the clinic with her own initiative.She terms the facility as vital means forregular medical checkup. After gettingher doorstep services she's mentallysatisfied.DASCOH Foundation has beenimplementing the PHIIR projectsupported by Swiss Red Cross (SRC) atfive upazila health complexes, 42 UnionHealth and Family Welfare Centres and110 Community Clinics under Bagmara,Charghat and Tanore upazilas inRajshahi and Porsha and Sapahar inNaogaon.The project is intended to improve thehealth status with special focus onmaternal, neonatal and child health atprimary health care level.PHIIR Project Manager TozammelHaque told BSS that the presentgovernment of Prime Minister SheikhHasina is determined to run the ruralhealth facility effectively. "So, we areworking here to supplement thegovernment endeavour," he added.A 26-member joint monitoring teamled by Dr Kasturi Amina Queen, DeputyDirector of the Department of FamilyPlanning, visited the Jhikra UH&FWCon February 28 last discussing anddevising ways and means on how tomake the facility more effective.Dr Amina Queen said there is noalternative to elevate the essentialhealth services of the facility throughproper functioning of its managementcommittee.She said there is no alternative toenhance knowledge level about healthand disease control among thecommunity people as a whole and therole of the rural facility is very importantin this regard.Over 2.21-crdoses Covid-19jabs vaccinatedin RangpurRANGPUR : A total of twocrore 21 lakh 17 thousand and254 doses of Covid-19 jabswere vaccinated tillWednesday in Rangpurdivision where the pandemicsituation continuesimproving in recent weeks,reports BSSHealth officials said theCovid-19 vaccinationcampaign continuessmoothly through inoculationof eligible citizens with thefirst, second and boosterdoses of the jabs in thedivision.Currently, citizens are beingvaccinated with five types ofCovid-19 jabs from differentcompanies like Moderna,AstraZeneca, Sinopharm,Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinovacacross the division."Among the totalinoculated jabs, 1,32,24,443people got the first dose andof them, 84,93,817 got thesecond dose and 3,98,994 gotthe booster dose tillWednesday," said DivisionalDirector (Health) Dr Abu MdZakirul Islam.The first dose recipient1,32,24,443 citizens include39,28,912 people vaccinatedwith AstraZeneca Covid-19jabs, 52,19,128 withSinopharm, 1,31,876 withModerna, 19,89,138 withPfizer-BioNTech and19,89,138 people withSinovac Covid-19 jabs.The second dose recipient84,93,817 citizens include20,02,083 inoculated withAstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs,48,65,182 with Sinopharm,1,27,554 with ModernaCovid-19 jabs, 14,98,427 withPfizer- BioNTech Covid-19and 571 with Sinovac Covid-19 jabs."Meanwhile, the 3,98,994booster dose recipientsinclude 3,86,355 vaccinatedwith AstraZeneca Covid-19jabs, 9,549 with Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 jabs and3,090 with Moderna Covid-19 jabs," Dr. Islam added.95.96pc Covid-19 patientsrecover in Rangpur divisionRANGPUR : The average recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has reached 95.96 percent inRangpur division where the pandemic situationis improving in recent weeks.Health officials said the number of positivecases decreases amid declining positivity rate andrising recovery rate of infected patients as thespread of the deadly virus is declining everyday."Forty more patients recovered during the last24 hours ending at 8 am yesterday raising thenumber of healed patients to 61,485 at the 95.96percent recovery rate in the division," DivisionalDirector (Health) Dr. Abu Md. Zakirul Islam toldBSS .The 61,485 recovered patients include 14,383of Rangpur, 4,319 of Panchagarh, 4,845 ofNilphamari, 3,168 of Lalmonirhat, 4,680 ofKurigram, 8,263 of Thakurgaon, 16,398 ofDinajpur and 5,429 of Gaibandha districts in thedivision.Meanwhile, the number of Covid-19 casesreached 64,073 as eight new patients werediagnosed after testing 242 new samples at the3.31 percent positivity rate on Wednesday in thedivision. Earlier, the daily Covid-19 positivityrates were 4.76 percent on Tuesday, 4.93 percenton Monday, 2.56 percent on Sunday, 10.19percent on Saturday, 8.64 percent on Friday and7.45 percent on Thursday last in the division. Thedistrict-wise break up of total 64,073 patientsinclude 14,946 of Rangpur, 4,415 Panchagarh,5,473 of Nilphamari, 3,277 of Lalmonirhat, 4,975of Kurigram, 8,577 of Thakurgaon, 16,904 ofDinajpur and 5,506 of Gaibandha in the division.Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic,a total of 3,37,437 collected samples were testedtill Wednesday, and of them, 64,073 were foundpositive with an average positivity rate of 18.99percent in the division.On the other hand, the total number ofcasualties remained steady at 1,282 in thedivision as no new death was reported during thelast 24 hours ending at 8 am yesterday.The district-wise break up of the 1,282 fatalitiesstands at 300 in Rangpur, 84 in Panchagarh, 92in Nilphamari, 73 in Lalmonirhat, 69 inKurigram, 259 in Thakurgaon, 340 in Dinajpurand 65 in Gaibandha districts of the division.The average casualty rate currently stands attwo percent in the division.The extended meeting of Awami League was held Nayabandar of Saghataupazila of Gaibandha yesterday.Photo : Asad KhandakerIn Kushtia's Kumarkhali, an oil trader has been fined Tk 20,000 for earningTk 15 per liter extra of soybean oil.Photo : MR NayanA human chain was formed at Kalapara of Patuakhali yesterday to openthe canal of Chingria area for public. Photo : Goutam Chandra HaldarWorld WildlifeDay observedin PabnaPABNA : The World WildlifeDay-2022 was observed inthe district yesterday aselsewhere in the country andthe globe aiming to createawareness aboutendangered animals andplants and ways to fightagainst wildlife crimes.The District Social ForestDepartment organised amass awareness programmeat the Upazila Parishad (UP)conference room ofSujanagar upazila yesterdaymorning.The theme of the day is"Recovering key species forecosystem restoration".†kL nvwmbvi g~jbxwZMÖvg kn‡ii DbœwZ133 03/03/22GD-385/22 (5x4)GD-384/22 (9x4)
7FRIdAY, MARCH 4, 2022Refugee count tops 1 million;Russians besiege Ukraine portsA Hercules C130 transport aircraft with some 2,000 anti-tank missiles for Ukraine has taken offfrom Norway.Photo : InternetNorway, Germanyprovide missilesto UkraineCOPENHAGEN : AHercules C130 transportaircraft with some 2,000anti-tank missiles forUkraine has taken off fromNorway.The weapons are to helpUkrainian forces resistRussia's invasion, whichbegan last week.Norway's national newsagency NTB said theshipment was being sentfrom Oslo on Thursday to athird country before beingtransported to Ukraine.Also Thursday, Germany'seconomy ministry approvedsending 2,700 anti-aircraftmissiles to Ukraine, the dpanews agency said.The agency quotedunnamed EconomyMinistry officials saying theweapons are Soviet-made,shoulder-fired Strelasurface-to-air missiles leftover from East Germanarmy supplies.Germany reversed itsprevious refusal to provideUkraine with lethal weaponslast week, following Russia'sattack.JAKARTA : The walls of Saifullah'shome in northern Jakarta are lined liketree rings, marking how high thefloodwaters have reached each year -some more than 4 feet from the dampdirt floor.When the water gets too high,Saifullah, who like many Indonesiansonly uses one name, sends his family tostay with friends. He guards the houseuntil the water can be drained using amakeshift pump. If the pump stopsworking, he uses a bucket or just waitsuntil the water recedes, reports UNB."It's a normal thing here," Saifullah,73, said. "But this is our home. Whereshould we go?"As the world's most rapidly sinkingmajor city, Jakarta demonstrates how500,000 people on floodalert as rain lashes SydneySYDNEY : Around 500,000 people inSydney and its surrounds had by Thursdaybeen told to evacuate or prepare to fleefloodwaters as torrential rain lashed anextraordinarily long stretch of the Australianeast coast, reports UNB.Rivers were rising in Australia's mostpopulous city, home to 5 million, with NewSouth Wales' State Emergency ServicesMinister Steph Cooke warning of"treacherous weather conditions" over thenext 24 hours.Australia's Bureau of Meteorology warnedof life-threatening flash flooding anddamaging winds with peak gusts in excess of90 kilometers (56 miles) an hour.Major flooding was expected along severalrivers in and around Sydney. Dozens ofsuburbs were on high alert.The State Emergency Service issuedevacuation orders to 200,000 residents andevacuation warnings had been sent toanother 300,000.New South Wales Premier DominicPerrottet urged residents to take the ordersseriously."We do believe that things will get worsebefore they get better," Perrottet said.Minor flood warnings were also issued forcoastal communities as far as 200 kilometers(120 miles) south of Sydney.climate change is making more placesuninhabitable. With an estimated onethirdof the city expected to besubmerged in the coming decades - inpart because of the rising Java Sea - theIndonesian government is planning tomove its capital some 1,240 miles(2,000 kilometers) northeast to theisland of Borneo, relocating as many as1.5 million civil servants.It's a huge undertaking and part ofthe mass movement of people that isexpected to accelerate in the yearsahead.A staggering 143 million people willlikely be uprooted over the next 30years by rising seas, drought, searingtemperatures and other climatecatastrophes, according to anFloodwaters were also rising in Brisbane,Australia's third-most populous city 730kilometers (450 miles) north of Sydney, assevere thunder storms struck.Hailstones 5 to 6 centimeters (2 inches)wide pounded the town of Inglewood, 270kilometers (170 miles) southwest ofBrisbane, early Thursday, the Bureau ofMeteorology said.Extraordinarily heavy rain brought flashfloods to the Queensland state coast 500kilometers (310 miles) north of the capitalBrisbane last week and a south-moving lowpressuresystem had since brought the rainsouth of Sydney.The flooding has claimed 14 lives inQueensland and neighboring New SouthWales since Feb. 22, when the body of a 63-year-old woman was recovered from asubmerged car at Belli Park, north ofBrisbane. In New South Wales, a 54-yearoldman was found Friday in a submergedSUV in Matcham, 90 kilometers (50 miles)north of Sydney.Most recently, a man in his 70s was foundin his flooded apartment Wednesday inLismore, New South Wales. Four peopledied in the town of 28,000.Several Brisbane suburbs remain floodedafter the river that snakes through the citycenter peaked on Monday.UN: Climate change to uprootmillions, especially in AsiaIntergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange report published Monday bythe United Nations.In Asia, governments are alreadyscrambling to deal with it.One in three migrants in the worldtoday comes from Asia, which leads theworld in the number of people beingdisplaced by extreme weather, largelystorms and flooding, according to thereport. With rural villages emptying outand megacities like Jakarta at risk,scientists predict migration flows andthe need for planned relocations willonly grow."Under all global warming levels,some regions that are presently denselypopulated will become unsafe oruninhabitable," the report said.The walls of Saifullah's home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwatershave reached each year - some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor.Photo : InternetKYIV : The number of people sentfleeing Ukraine by Russia's invasiontopped 1 million on Wednesday, theswiftest refugee exodus this century,the United Nations said, as Russianforces kept up their bombardment ofthe country's second-biggest city,Kharkiv, and laid siege to two strategicseaports.The tally from the U.N. refugeeagency released to The AssociatedPress amounts to more than 2 percentof Ukraine's population being forcedout of the country in less than a week.The mass evacuation could be seen inKharkiv, where residents desperate toget away from falling shells andbombs crowded the city's train stationand tried to press onto trains, notalways knowing where they wereheaded.In a videotaped address, UkrainianPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy calledon Ukrainians to keep up theresistance. He vowed that the invaderswould have "not one quiet moment"and described Russian soldiers as"confused children who have beenused."Moscow's isolation deepened whenmost of the world lined up against it atthe United Nations to demand itwithdraw from Ukraine. And theprosecutor for the InternationalCriminal Court opened aninvestigation into possible war crimes.With fighting going on on multiplefronts across the country, Britain'sDefense Ministry said Mariupol, alarge city on the Azov Sea, wasencircled by Russian forces, while thestatus of another vital port, Kherson, aBlack Sea shipbuilding city of280,000, remained unclear.Russian President Vladimir Putin'sforces claimed to have taken completecontrol of Kherson, which wouldmake it the biggest city to fall yet in theinvasion. But a senior U.S. defenseofficial disputed that."Our view is that Kherson is verymuch a contested city," the officialsaid, speaking on condition ofanonymity.Zelenskyy's office told the AP that itcould not comment on the situation inKherson while the fighting was stillgoing on.But the mayor of Kherson, IgorKolykhaev, said Russian soldiers werein the city and came to the cityadministration building. He said heasked them not to shoot civilians andto allow crews to gather up the bodiesfrom the streets."I simply asked them not to shoot atpeople," he said in a statement. "Wedon't have any Ukrainian forces in thecity, only civilians and people herewho want to LIVE."Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenkosaid the attacks there had beenrelentless."We cannot even take the woundedfrom the streets, from houses andapartments today, since the shellingdoes not stop," he was quoted by theInterfax news agency as saying.Russia reported its militarycasualties for the first time since theinvasion began last week, sayingnearly 500 of its troops have beenkilled and almost 1,600 wounded.Ukraine did not disclose its ownmilitary losses but said more than2,000 civilians have died, a claim thatcould not be independently verified.In a video address to the nation earlyThursday, Zelenskyy praised hiscountry's resistance."We are a people who in a week havedestroyed the plans of the enemy," hesaid. "They will have no peace here.They will have no food. They will havehere not one quiet moment."He said the fighting is taking a tollon the morale of Russian soldiers, who"go into grocery stores and try to findsomething to eat.""These are not warriors of asuperpower," he said. "These areconfused children who have beenused."Meanwhile, the senior U.S. defenseofficial said an immense column ofhundreds of tanks and other vehiclesappeared to be stalled roughly 25kilometers (16 miles) from Kyiv andhad made no real progress in the lastcouple of days.The convoy, which earlier in theweek had seemed poised to launch anassault on the capital, has beenplagued with fuel and food shortages,the official said. Western officialswarn that Russia's far strongermilitary is likely to adapt quickly.The number of people sent fleeing Ukraine by Russia's invasion topped 1 million on Wednesday,the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the United Nations said, as Russian forces kept uptheir bombardment of the country's second-biggest city, Kharkiv, and laid siege to two strategicseaports.Photo : InternetStates launchprobe intoTikTok's effecton kids' healthWASHINGTON : Stateattorneys general havelaunched a nationwideinvestigation into TikTokand its possible harmfuleffects on young users'mental health, wideninggovernment scrutiny of thewildly popular videoplatform.The investigation wasannounced Wednesday bya number of states led byCalifornia, Florida,Kentucky, Massachusetts,Nebraska, New Jersey,Tennessee and Vermont.U.S. lawmakers andfederal regulators havecriticized TikTok, citingpractices and computerdrivenpromotion ofcontent they say canendanger the physical andmental health of youngusers. The platform has anestimated 1 billion monthlyusers and is especiallypopular with teens andyounger children.Last month, Texasopened an investigationinto TikTok's allegedviolations of children'sprivacy and facilitation ofhuman trafficking."Our children aregrowing up in the age ofsocial media - and manyfeel like they need tomeasure up to the filteredversions of reality that theysee on their screens,"California AttorneyGeneral Rob Bonta said ina news release. "We knowthis takes a devastating tollon children's mental healthand well-being."UN Assembly votes todemand that Russiastop war in UkraineUNITED NATIONS : TheU.N. General Assemblyvoted at an emergencysession Wednesday todemand an immediate haltto Moscow's attack onUkraine and the withdrawalof all Russian troops, withsustained applause breakingout after a formidable showof support among the 193member nations against theinvasion, reports UNB.The vote on the"Aggression againstUkraine" resolution was 141-5, with 35 abstentions. Itcame as Russia bombardedUkraine's second-largest cityand besieged two importantports, and a huge convoy ofRussian military vehicleswas poised outside theUkrainian capital of Kyiv.Only Belarus, Syria, NorthKorea and Eritrea joinedRussia in opposing themeasure, a powerfulindication of theinternational isolation thatRussian President VladimirPutin faces for invading hiscountry's smaller neighbor -and that the resolution'ssupporters sought toemphasize.The abstentions includedChina and India, asexpected, but also somesurprises from usual Russianallies Cuba and Nicaragua.And the United ArabEmirates, which abstainedon Friday's similar SecurityCouncil resolution, voted"yes."Cuba had spoken inRussia's defense on Tuesday,with Ambassador Pedro LuisCuesta blaming the crisis onwhat he said is the U.S.determination to keepexpanding NATO towardRussia's borders and on thedelivery of modern weaponsto Ukraine, ignoring Russia'sconcerns for its own security.He told the assembly theresolution "suffers from lackof balance" and doesn't beginto address the concerns ofboth parties, or "theresponsibility of those whotook aggressive actionswhich precipitated theescalation of this conflict."Unlike Security Councilresolutions, GeneralAssembly resolutions are notlegally binding, but they dohave clout in reflectinginternational opinion. Underspecial emergency sessionrules, a resolution needsapproval of two-thirds ofthose countries voting, andabstentions don't count.From Washington, U.S.President Joe Biden calledthe special session historicand a demonstration of"unprecedented globalunity.""An overwhelmingmajority of the worldrecognizes that if we do notstand up to Putin's Russia, itwill only inflict further chaosand aggression on theworld," Biden said in astatement.After Russia vetoed asimilar Security Councilresolution Friday, Ukraineand its supporters wonapproval for the assembly tohold an emergency specialsession-the first since 1997 --to try to spotlight oppositionto Russia's invasion.Deploring Russia's"aggression" against Ukraine"in the strongest terms," themeasure demands animmediate halt to Moscow'suse of force and theimmediate, complete andunconditional withdrawal ofall Russian forces.The resolution says thatRussia's military operationsin Ukraine "are on a scalethat the internationalcommunity has not seen inEurope in decades and thaturgent action is needed tosave this generation from thescourge of war." It "urges theimmediate peacefulresolution of the conflict"and reaffirms the assembly'scommitment "to thesovereignty, independence,unity and territorial integrityof Ukraine within itsinternationally recognizedborders."The measure alsocondemns "the RussianFederation's decision toincrease the readiness of itsnuclear forces" - an issueraised by many U.N.members concerned aboutthat prospect.
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