Ensure better medical services
Health minister tells seminar
Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque yesterday stressed the need for decentralisation of health sector to ensure better medical services for rural and poor people.
“If we could not be able to involve the local government in health sector, improvement of the health sector would not be possible,” he said at a seminar at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city.
Health Reporters Forum (HRF), a professional body, organised the seminar, highlighting the government role in the health sector.
Director General of Health Directorate Dr Sifayetullah, Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) president Dr M Mahmud Hasan, BMA Secretary General Sharfuddin Ahmed, Dr Moniruzzaman and Dr Rashidi Mahbub spoke at the seminar with HRF President Moniruzzaman Ujjal in the chair.
Awami League's Health and Population Affairs Secretary Dr Badiuzzaman Bhuiyan presented a keynote paper focusing on the grand-alliance government's activities undertaken in the past two years to develop the health sector.
Dr Ruhal Haque said the government is committed to reach health services to the doorstep of poor. He hoped that the proposed health policy will be placed in the next parliament session after cabinet approval, aiming at developing the country's health sector.
About the National Nutrition Programme (NNP), he said although the NNP has been continuing in 142 districts, the government is planning to expand the programme to every district to save poor women and adolescents from malnutrition.
Dr Ruhal informed that the government has already sanctioned Tk 100 million to face tuberculosis problem in the country.
Referring to mismanagement of the health sector, he said it will take little time to remove all irregularities in this sector as it had faced big crisis earlier.
“Now, no question has been raised about medicine supply. There is no corruption in supplying medicine across the country,” he claimed.
The Health Minister also stressed on setting up specialised healthcare centres in district level.
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