Women health essential for well-being of family, says Health Adviser

FE Team | Published: October 23, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Health and Family Welfare Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman Monday said women's good health is essential for the well-being of each family and community as well as the country, reports BSS.
ASM Matiur Rahman made the observation while speaking at the conference on "Women Deliver" held in London recently.
A six-member Bangladesh delegation led by the Health Adviser attended the global conference on "Maternal Health and Mortality" held in London from October 18 to 20, 2007 in joint collaboration with UNFPA, UK, DFID and Family Care International.
UK Secretary of State for DFID Rt Hon. Alexander Douglas MP inaugurated the conference, which was patronised by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The Health Adviser called for greater political commitment at national and international level towards improving maternal health, particularly in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa, one of the key millennium development goals (MDGs).
Bangladesh High Commi-ssioner to London Shafi U Ahmed, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Health and Welfare and other senior officials and experts from the office of Director General Health and other Non-Governmental and private organisations attended the conference.
Bangladesh was specially praised in the inaugural session of the conference by UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro and by other participating Health Ministers for successfully reducing maternal mortality by a half particularly for the poor segment of the society, during the last decade.
Bangladesh's success in empowering women socially, economically and health-wise through micro-credit entrepreneurship was also highly commended at the ministerial forum of the conference.
Health Ministers and experts of 122 countries took part in the seventh conference, which aimed at accelerating national and international action for prioritising realisation of the MDGs on health and reducing maternal mortality by three fourths.