Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital  will be turned into a 2000-bed one from 900-bed and a medical oxygen plant will be set up at the hospital to handle the growing number Covid-19 patients in the district. The oxygen plant will have the capacity to supply 10,000 liters of oxygen. The decisions were taken on Sunday at a virtual meeting of the management committee of  the hospital with Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen in chair. Read: Coronavirus testing equipment reached Sylhet hospital It was decided that the 2nd unit of the hospital will be set up at the premises of the Infectious Diseases Hospital adjacent to Shahi Eidgah in Sylhet. It was informed at the meeting that the Public Works Department will visit the site and take necessary steps for the construction of the hospital. Sylhet city mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury,  Selina Momen, wife of the Foreign Minister and a member of the management committee of the medical college hospital, Sylhet divisional commissioner, police commissioner, director of MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital , among others, joined the meeting.

A man was killed and nine others injured after a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Parganabazar in Sylhet on Friday morning.

“His body bore numerous injury marks,” Dr Shamsul Islam said after the second post-mortem examination on Thursday. “The autopsy report will make other things clear.” Raihan, 34, a resident of Akharia in Sylhet city, was beaten to death in police custody at the Bandar Bazar police outpost on October 11, his family said. His bod

With 108 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, total confirmed cases rose to 10,124 in Sylhet division on Sunday.

With detection of 70 new coronavirus patients, the number of confirmed cases rose to 9,369 in the Sylhet division on Monday.

The Cyber Police of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested a youth from Badda on Wednesday for making derogatory comment on social media over the death of Dr Moyeen Uddin, an assistant professor at the medicine department of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH).