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In observance of the 1st anniversary of Shornadip Foundation Hospital, a
discussion meeting was held in Sandwip upazila recently. Photo: TBT
Shornadip Foundation Hospital celebrates
first founding anniversary
OPU IBRAHIM, SANDWIP CORRESPONDENT:
Shornadip Foundation Hospital continues to
set another example in serving the poor,
helpless and extremely poor people for the
sake of humanitarianism. The hospital is
open 24 hours a day for the poor and
helpless people as well as all sections of the
society. The hospital is committed to
providing services to the people, and in the
future, this organization will be able to set an
example of advanced medical services in
Shornadip with the cooperation of all the
people of the society.
Also a nursing home will be introduced in
this hospital soon. The hospital was not
established in the hope of profit, service is
the main goal. The staffs of the hospital are
working to make Shornadip Foundation
Hospital Medical Services a model for the
whole of Bangladesh.
A discussion meeting in observance of the
1st anniversary celebrations of the Shornadip
Foundation Hospital, built with the funding
of Youth Group, one of the country's leading
industrial families, on Monday.
Director of Shornadip Foundation
Hospital Khairul Mostafa presided over the
function. Director of Shornadip Foundation
Hospital and Vice Chairman of Youth Group
Akbar Haider Munna, Director and
Managing Director of Shornadip Foundation
Hospital Faridul Alam Emon, Chief Adviser
of the hospital Dr. Kamruzzaman Antu, Coordinator
Principal Mizanur Rahman,
Hospital Resident Physician Dr. Zakaria
Parvez, Shornadip Upazila Rural Physicians
Association President. Abdul Mannan and
others were also present at the occasion.
2 die of Covid-19,
casualties reach
1,236 in Rangpur
RANGPUR: Two more
Covid-19 patients died
during the last 24 hours
ending at 8 am yesterday
raising the number of
coronavirus related
casualties to 1,236 in
Rangpur division, reports
BSS
Health officials said the
two new casualties were
reported from Lalmonirhat
and Thakurgaon districts in
the division where no fatality
was reported during the past
three consecutive days.
"The Covid-19 situation
continues improving amid a
declining positivity rate and
a rising recovery rate in
recent weeks in the
division," Divisional Deputy
Director (Health) Dr Abu
Md Zakirul Islam told BSS
yesterday.
"The district-wise break
up of the 1,236 fatalities
stands at 293 in Rangpur,
80 in Panchagarh, 88 in
Nilphamari, 68 each in
Lalmonirhat and Kurigram,
251 in Thakurgaon, 325 in
Dinajpur and 63 in
Gaibandha districts of the
division.
The average casualty rate
currently stands at 2.25
percent in the division.
Meanwhile, the number
of Covid-19 cases reached
55,033 as 14 new patients
were diagnosed after testing
488 samples of Rangpur
division at the daily
positivity rate of 2.87
percent on Tuesday.
Earlier, the daily Covid-19
positivity rates were 4.01
percent on Monday, 1.42
percent on Sunday, three
percent on Saturday, 4.74
percent on Friday, 2.87
percent on Thursday and
2.26 percent on Wednesday
last in the division.
"The district-wise break
up of total 55,033 patients
include 12,409 of Rangpur,
3,770 of Panchagarh, 4,424
of Nilphamari, 2,733 of
Lalmonirhat, 4,631 of
Kurigram, 7,537 of
Thakurgaon, 14,677 of
Dinajpur and 4,852 of
Gaibandha in the division,"
he added.
SAN FRANCISCO : Google
on Wednesday said it is
tweaking widely used tools
for getting around, shopping
and more to let users factor
climate change into daily
routines.
Google is among the Big
Tech firms that have made
pledges and investments to
reduce the environmental
impact of their operations
with moves such as making
power-hungry data centers
carbon neutral.
New features unveiled on
Wednesday provide users
with ways to help in the
Google lets users
factor climate
change into life
effort, whether it be driving
routes that result in less
exhaust being spewed from
cars or shopping online for
energy efficient appliances.
"In all these efforts, our
goal is to make the
sustainable choice an easier
choice," Google chief
executive Sundar Pichai said
while briefing journalists on
the latest features.
Artificial intelligence was
put to work in Google's free
Maps service in the United
States to show people the
most fuel efficient routes to
destinations even if they are
not the quickest.
"It defaults to the route
that uses less fuel when the
estimated time of arrival is
similar," Pichai said.
"We believe the feature
will have the same impact in
the next year as taking over
200,000 cars off the road."
The feature is to be rolled
out in Europe in 2022.
Seven killed
in new rebel
attack in
C.Africa
BANGUI, Central African
Republic : Seven civilians
were killed by rebels in
eastern Central African
Republic (CAR), where
government forces are
battling armed groups, the
region's senior official said
on Wednesday.
The attack occurred on
Tuesday on a road near
Bambari, the CAR's fourthbiggest
city, inflicting a
"provisional toll of seven
dead and six wounded," said
Victor Bissekoin, prefect of
Ouaka, while aid workers
said at least 15 had died.
Ship's anchor may
have caused massive
California oil spill
LONG BEACH : A ship's
anchor may have hooked,
dragged and torn an
underwater pipeline that
spilled tens of thousands of
gallons of crude oil into the
ocean off Southern
California, according to
federal investigators who
also found the pipeline
owner didn't quickly shut
down operations after a
safety system alerted to a
possible spill, reports UNB.
Questions remained about
the timeline of the weekend
spill, which fouled beaches
and a protected marshland,
potentially closing them for
weeks along with
commercial and recreational
fishing in a major hit to the
local economy.
Some reports of a possible
spill, a petroleum smell and
an oily sheen on the waters
off Huntington Beach came
in Friday night but weren't
corroborated and the
pipeline's operator, Amplify
Energy Corp., didn't report a
spill until the next morning,
authorities said.
An alarm went off in a
company control room at
2:30 a.m. Saturday that
pressure had dropped in the
pipeline, indicating a
possible leak but Amplify
waited until 6:01 a.m. to
shut down the pipeline,
according to preliminary
findings of an investigation
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The Houston-based
company took another three
hours to notify the U.S.
Coast Guard's National
Response Center for oil
spills, investigators said,
further slowing the response
to an accident for which
Amplify workers spent years
preparing.
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