Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Dec 20: Speakers at the national neurology congress here today said neurological diseases like stroke and cerebral malaria are very common in Bangladesh and they account for at least 20 per cent of the country's disease burden.
They demanded more physicians in the neurological wards in government hospitals and necessary instruments for treatment and lowering of the prices of medicines to ensure improved health services to the common people.
Primary and Mass Education Minister Afsarul Amin addressed the congress as the chief guest. The inaugural session of the 2-day congress was presided over by Professor AKM Anwar Ullah at the IEB centre in Chittagong this afternoon.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Majibur
Rahman Fakir, MA Mannan MP and Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Pran Gopal Dutta spoke as the special
guests. It was also addressed by the principal of Chittagong Medical College, director of Chittagong Medical College Hospital Brigadier General AKM Fariduzzaman, Professor Firoz Ahmed Quraishi, Professor Khokan Kanti Das and Professor Syed Wahidur Rahman.
Neurological diseases 'very common in country'
FE Team | Published: December 21, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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