PM asks Shishu Hospital authorities to expand its services across the country
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Saturday called upon the Shishu Hospital authorities to expand their service across the country by setting up two branches in Dhaka and one branch in each division to provide quality treatment to child patients, reports BSS.
She made the call while inaugurating the First International Conference on Congenital Heart Disease, organised by Paediatric Cardiac Society of Bangladesh (PCSB), at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city.
In the first phase of the programme, branches of Shishu Hospital would be set up at all divisional headquarters and then they would be expanded up to the district level, she said and assured that her government will provide all-out support to this end.
Sheikh Hasina said that, as her government was pledge-bound to ensure modern and quality health services to the people, it had given special attention to this matter in the national budget.
Chaired by Prof Dr Asit Baran Adhikary, the inaugural function was addressed, among others, by Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque, Health Adviser to the PM Prof Dr Syed Modasser Ali, National Professor MR Khan, PCSB Secretary General Prof Manzoor Hussain, Prof Dr Zahid Hussain and Lt Col Dr Nurunnahar Fatema.
Listing different programmes of her previous government (1996- 2001) to reach healthcare service to the doorsteps of the people, she said the past Awami League government took an extensive programme to expand quality health service up to the country's remote areas by setting up 18,000 community clinics.
But, she regretted that the pro-people programmes of the then Awami League government in the health sector were suspended by the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government.
The PM said that her present government had restarted the programmes to provide healthcare service to the doorsteps of the people. She said her government would set up one community clinic for every 6,000 people of the country.
She made the call while inaugurating the First International Conference on Congenital Heart Disease, organised by Paediatric Cardiac Society of Bangladesh (PCSB), at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city.
In the first phase of the programme, branches of Shishu Hospital would be set up at all divisional headquarters and then they would be expanded up to the district level, she said and assured that her government will provide all-out support to this end.
Sheikh Hasina said that, as her government was pledge-bound to ensure modern and quality health services to the people, it had given special attention to this matter in the national budget.
Chaired by Prof Dr Asit Baran Adhikary, the inaugural function was addressed, among others, by Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque, Health Adviser to the PM Prof Dr Syed Modasser Ali, National Professor MR Khan, PCSB Secretary General Prof Manzoor Hussain, Prof Dr Zahid Hussain and Lt Col Dr Nurunnahar Fatema.
Listing different programmes of her previous government (1996- 2001) to reach healthcare service to the doorsteps of the people, she said the past Awami League government took an extensive programme to expand quality health service up to the country's remote areas by setting up 18,000 community clinics.
But, she regretted that the pro-people programmes of the then Awami League government in the health sector were suspended by the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government.
The PM said that her present government had restarted the programmes to provide healthcare service to the doorsteps of the people. She said her government would set up one community clinic for every 6,000 people of the country.