Friendship operating clinic and three units at government hospital for displaced Rohingya by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYMarch 3, 2022 Friendship has opened a 12-bed Primary Health Clinic (PHC) in Bhasan Char, an island developed to accommodate 100,000 Rohingya refugees....
RTV’s Chare Jibon Jemon’s third episode gives us an inside look at why underage girls in the chars remain vulnerable to marriage by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYFebruary 14, 2022 Friendship collaborated with national television network, RTV recently to air a mini-series...
Climate-friendly structure in border town of Shyamnagar gets British award for best new building in the world by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYJanuary 26, 2022 Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar, a distinctive brick structure in the water-logged southern region of Bangladesh,...
Covid-19 : Friendship agit pour alléger la crise alimentaire et contribue à l’accès à la vaccination pour tous(ENGLISH VERISON BELOW) October 27, 2021 Pour leur permettre de faire face à l’impact combiné de la crise sanitaire du Covid-19 et des inondations...
A FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL SHIP IN THE COLOURS OF THE LUXEMBOURG COOPERATION(ENGLISH VERISON BELOW) Le bateau hôpital passera aux couleurs la Coopération luxembourgeoise (montage photo) 27 Octobre 2021 C’est à l’occasion de l’inauguration de l’exposition photo sur les...
by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYSeptember 29, 2021 Friendship paramedics administer vaccinations in Shariakandi, Bogura. © MUSFIQUR SAKIB/FRIENDSHIP Amidst the intermittent lockdowns, multiple waves of covid-19 infections, logistical issues and significant threat to...
Friendship founder Runa Khan explains why the world needs healthcare that takes care of all living beings, rather than just humans The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that we are all unsafe until all of us are safe. © YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND by RUNA KHANAugust 11, 2021 The...
Architect Kashef Chowdhury's brilliance is recognised yet again, this time with a RIBA award for his Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar © SUMAN GHOSH/FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKJuly 25, 2021 Friendship Hospital Shyamnagar (FHS) has been named one of 16 winners of the...
Lockdown rules eased for Eid; Friendship field staff work on building awareness while adapting programmes to escalating risk As increasing infections stretch healthcare resources everywhere, Friendship hospitals are operating at full capacity through the pandemic with...
by NAUSHAD ALI HUSEINJune 30, 2021Updated: July 1, 2021 As Covid-19 infections and deaths reached new record levels in Bangladesh, the government has imposed a strict lockdown from July 1. Thousands of people rushed to leave the capital city of Dhaka as soon as the...
Diarrhoea patients lying on the floor of the overwhelmed hospital in Bhasan Char, a new home for Bangladesh's Rohingya refugees. © FRIENDSHIP by RAEED ABD-ALLAH CHOWDHURYUpdated: June 23, 2021 Four people have died in an outbreak of diarrhoea in Bhasan Char—an island...
situation overview At around 3pm on March 22, 2021, a devastating fire broke out in camp 8W of the Kutupalong camp network which houses some 880,000 Rohingya refugees who fled genocide in adjacent Myanmar. Fueled by dry weather and breeze, the fire quickly spread to...