Ventilator
Senior lawyer Khandaker Mahbub put on ventilator
Senior lawyer and BNP vice-chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain has been put on a ventilator at a private hospital in the city.
He was admitted to Evercare Hospital with respiratory problem on Tuesday, said Sayrul Kabir Khan, a BNP media cell member, quoting the family on Wednesday.
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Mahbub, former vice-president of the Bangladesh Bar Council and president of Supreme Court Bar Association, is one of the lawyers of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Bangladesh is manufacturer as well as user of digital products: Palak
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Thursday said Bangladesh is not only a user of digital devices, it has become a producer of digital products as well.
Ventilator from old car parts? Afghan girls pursue prototype
On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teen-age girls pile into her dad's car and head to a mechanic's workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in their city of Herat, one of Afghanistan's hot spots of the coronavirus pandemic.
Walton to manufacture ventilators, medical equipment
Walton, a local electronic brand has taken up an initiative to manufacture necessary medical equipment including ventilators to fight the coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak.