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Moudud Ahmmed Sujan
Moudud Ahmmed Sujan is an award-winning journalist. His journalist experience involves health, environment, migration, labour rights and diplomatic issues. Starting as the Jahangirnagar University Correspondent of the Daily Sun newspaper in 2012, he worked in several Dhaka-based English-language newspapers. Currently, he is working as the Health Reporter of The Daily Star. In 2019, he won two awards from The Daily Star for two different reports. One was the "most-talked-about report'"on Antimicrobial Resistance while another was "The Best Series/Investigative Report" on jute factory workers. In the same year, he won the "Media Fellowship 2019", awarded by the family planning directorate of Bangladesh government.
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Vaccinating Teachers, Students: Health ministry begins planning
The health ministry has started to work on a plan to include university teachers and students in the inoculation campaign to comply with a government decision. -
Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine: Second lot of 20 lakh doses arrives
Twenty lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India reached the country early today, which is less than half of the monthly supply installment as per a contract. -
Oxford-Astrazeneca Vaccine: Protection expected 3 weeks after first jab
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s first shot starts its effect three weeks after it is administered and remains effective up to three months, according to a latest study. -
Red Crescent Volunteers: A vital cog in vaccination
“Have you brought the vaccination card, sir?” Rubina Akter asks a middle-aged man who just arrived at a Covid-19 inoculation centre at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. -
Response still slow in villages
While the progress in inoculation drives is good in major cities, including divisional headquarters, it is still poor in small towns and rural areas as people there find the online registration process burdensome, divisional health experts said.
