United News of Bangladesh

Four of the five babies born to a woman at Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Thursday died within 12 hours of birth due to complications from premature delivery and extremely low birth weight, doctors said. The woman gave birth to quintuplets – three boys and two girls – through normal delivery at the hospital’s labour ward between 5:20pm and 5:50pm on Thursday. However, one of the boys survived and remains under treatment at the hospital, while four other newborns died. The parents are Mahamudul Hasan and Chandni Begum of Bhabukdia village in Dangi union of Nagarkanda upazila. Preetiraj Roy Chowdhury, an intern at the hospital’s neonatal and paediatric ward, said all five babies were born alive but were extremely underweight, each weighing between 600 and 800 grams. She said such cases require neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), but the hospital lacks adequate facilities, and the newborns were advised to be taken to Dhaka. The surviving baby is being treated at the neonatal and paediatric ward under close observation, senior nurse Riya.

A young man was held as he allegedly raped an 8-year-old schoolgirl in Kandapara village of Naria upazila on Monday.

At least 64 people were diagnosed with Covid-19 on Tuesday, with reports reaching the UNB desk from just 6 of the 64 districts at the time of filing this report. 

A physician of Faridpur Medical College Hospital (FMCH) tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday.

Three Covid-19 patients who were undergoing treatment at Faridpur Medical College Hospital returned home on Thursday after their full recovery.

Six more people have died from fever, cough and breathing complications in Faridpur, Chattogram, Barishal and Cumilla districts.

Two septuagenarian men, who had been suffering from fever and cold, have died at the isolation unit of Faridpur Medical College Hospital.

A pregnant woman died at Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Monday as she was not reportedly given oxygen support.

A parliamentary probe body visited Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Wednesday, in a bid to investigate alleged irregularities at the hospital.

A court here on Tuesday sent two accused to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in a case filed in connection with Faridpur Medical College Hospital (FMCH) curtain purchase scam.