Steps taken to control water-borne diseases
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Adviser for Health and Family Welfare A S M Matiur Rahman said Wednesday that all-out steps have been taken to face the flood side by side with treatment of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases, reports BSS.
"We have enough stocks of oral saline and medicines to treat diarrhoea affected people and the government has kept open its central medicine supply depot (CMSD) for 24 hours," he said while speaking as the chief guest at a seminar here.
Organisation for Population and Poverty Alleviation (OPPA) arranged the seminar titled "Prospects of Health MDGs Achievement by 2015 in the context of Bangladesh Demographic Realities" at the Centre for Integrated Rural Development in Asia and Pacific (CIRDAP).
OPPA President Mohammad A Mabud chaired the function, which was also addressed by Vice Chancellor of the North South University Hafiz GA Siddiqui, Chief Editor and Managing Director of BSS Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, general secretary of OPPA AFM Matiur Rahman, Joint Chief of Health Ministry Khodeza Begum and vice president of OPPA Anwar Islam.
Matiur said the government has intensified the campaign to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) and some of the indicators have been proved very effective to attain the target even before 2015.
He said the neglected issues like poverty and nutrition should be given equal importance to achieve health MDGs, which target substantial cut of neonatal and under five child mortality and morbidity, controlling of HIV/AIDS and ensuring safe drinking water and hygienic latrine to half of world's total population.
The health adviser said the government has taken special programme to implement the health nutrition population sector programme (HNPSP) with due importance to nutrition, a public health issue overlooked in the past for its indirect impacts.
"We have enough stocks of oral saline and medicines to treat diarrhoea affected people and the government has kept open its central medicine supply depot (CMSD) for 24 hours," he said while speaking as the chief guest at a seminar here.
Organisation for Population and Poverty Alleviation (OPPA) arranged the seminar titled "Prospects of Health MDGs Achievement by 2015 in the context of Bangladesh Demographic Realities" at the Centre for Integrated Rural Development in Asia and Pacific (CIRDAP).
OPPA President Mohammad A Mabud chaired the function, which was also addressed by Vice Chancellor of the North South University Hafiz GA Siddiqui, Chief Editor and Managing Director of BSS Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, general secretary of OPPA AFM Matiur Rahman, Joint Chief of Health Ministry Khodeza Begum and vice president of OPPA Anwar Islam.
Matiur said the government has intensified the campaign to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) and some of the indicators have been proved very effective to attain the target even before 2015.
He said the neglected issues like poverty and nutrition should be given equal importance to achieve health MDGs, which target substantial cut of neonatal and under five child mortality and morbidity, controlling of HIV/AIDS and ensuring safe drinking water and hygienic latrine to half of world's total population.
The health adviser said the government has taken special programme to implement the health nutrition population sector programme (HNPSP) with due importance to nutrition, a public health issue overlooked in the past for its indirect impacts.