Digital Health for Digital Development
Global health award for PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received the Global Health and Children's Award for her contribution to develop Bangladesh's health sector by using the Information Communication Technology (ICT).
The award was given at a function held at the Astoria Waldorf Hotel in presence of heads of states and governments of different countries and celebrities.
The prime minister dedicated the award to the people of Bangladesh at the South-South Awards night held with a slogan “Digital Health for Digital Development”
In her speech she said, “This is indeed the recognition of all the hard work that my government has put in improving ICT conditions during the last two and a half years of its tenure.”
Hasina said her government has established over 11,000 community health clinics in rural areas and almost all these have been brought under the digital reach.
Digitalising of health services has enabled free treatment of malaria and tuberculosis patients, as well as AIDS screening up to the district level.
The organisers in its souvenir said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has played a critical role in the development of a digital Bangladesh.
“She has also been an active advocate of the use of digital technology to improve the health care system in her country, overseeing the use of mobile phones in hospital to share information, and the implementation of a free programme that delivers advice to
pregnant women via SMS,” the souvenir said.
The award night was jointly organised by UN Economic Commission for Africa, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), South-South News, Permanent Missions of Antigua and Barbuda, Malawi, Dominica, Zambia, Tajikistan, El Salvador and Honduras to the UN.Bangladesh received MDG-4 (Millennium Development Goals-4) Award for its success in reducing child mortality in 2010.
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