Country suffers shortage of paramedics
Meeting told
Due to an absence of government cadre paramedics, the country has been suffering an acute shortage of human resource to provide maternal, child and other reproductive healthcare services, said speakers at a meeting yesterday.
Although non-government organisations and the private sector are trying to fulfil this gap, most of the health care services in rural areas are provided by unskilled or semi-skilled workforce, they said.
TARSAN, an European Union funded healthcare project, organised the meeting titled "Critical Need of Skilled Health Workforce: Community Paramedic – A New Initiative to Accessible and Quality Health Care Delivery for Rural Bangladesh" at Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
Dr Jafar Ahmed Hakim, project manager of TARSAN, said the project provides scholarship to deserving trainees from the country's disaster prone areas to develop them into skilled paramedics.
Ahmed Al-Kabir, chairman of Rupali Bank and president of Research Training and Management (RTM), said training of community paramedics has been going on in different areas of the country for the last two years.
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