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'28 killed in accidents in a day
Dhaka, July 28
At least 28 people have died in road accidents across the country.
Four people were killed and five others injured in a road accident in Chittagong's Patia upazila on Thursday.
Three of them died on the spot in Patia College Gate area around 8:30pm when a three-wheeler rammed into a truck, local police sub-inspector Tofael Ahmed told.
Only two of the four, Abu Jafar, 55, and Biswajit Ghose, 27, could be immediately identified.
Another Dipayan Paul died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH), where the five injured were being treated.
In Bogra, 17 people including four women and four children were killed and 30 others injured earlier in the day.
The accident took place as a bus collided head-on with a truck on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in the district's Shahjahanpur area.
District administration has formed a three-strong committee headed by the deputy commissioner to look into the causes of accident.
In Gazipur, a head-on collision between a truck and a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway bypass road in Srifaltali area under Kaliakoir upazila left at least four people dead and 20 injured.
Another similar clash between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in the Darhikandi area under Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj left at least three dead and 15 injured.
In a separate accident, 10 people were hurt when two buses collided head-on in Mastan Nagar of Mirsarai upazila, police said.
GSK to help groom healthcare personnel
Fri, Jul 29th, 2011
Dhaka, July 28 – GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh will reinvest 20 percent of its profits to capacity building of the country's healthcare personnel.
The decision followed the giant drug-maker's global commitment to reinvest one-fifth of the profit made in the least developed countries (LDC) to 'strengthen the healthcare infrastructure in those countries.
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GSK Bangladesh managing director M Azizul on Thursday said the reinvestment amount would be around Tk 100 million of the profit made from Tk 3.
8 billion turnover.
He said CARE Bangladesh and a local NGO, Friendship, are the partners for implementing the reinvestment projects.
"But we'll decide later on how we'll work," he said.
"Improving access to healthcare around the world is vitally important to GSK," Duncan Learmouth, senior vice-president of GSK's Developing Countries and Market Access Business Unit, told a press conference in the capital.
He said the company has formed a new partnership with three leading NGOs, including CARE international, to deliver the investment in LDCs
Programme Director of CARE Bangladesh Jahangir Hossain, however, told bdnews24.
com that they were yet to decide the areas of the project activities.
"But we target to improve the access of rural people to the government's healthcare," he said, adding the final decision would come after meetings with stakeholders and government authorities concerned.
Friendship's executive director Runa Khan told bdnews24.
com that they would strengthen their mobile-health projects in chor (island) areas.
"We've trained some medics in the (chor) community.
The project will connect them with physicians in different parts of the country," she said.
The world's leading research-based pharmaceutical company, GSK started its business in Bangladesh in 1949.
They began to produce drugs locally in 1967 from its Chittagong factory.
Recently the company has decided to cap prices of its vaccines and some medicines as per the global decision to keep prices in LDC countries as low as 25 percent of the UK prices.
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