Telemedicine project to start middle of next year: Minister
Friday, 4 December 2009
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr AFM Ruhal Haque Thursday said that the government was to start telemedicine project in the middle of next year to reach the healthcare services to the doorsteps of the people, reports BSS.
"Due emphasis will be given on the inaccessible areas, where improved treatment facilities have not yet reached," he said while addressing a function on publication of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Coverage Survey-2009 in the city.
Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services Professor Shah Monir Hossain chaired the function while Managing Director of Nielsen Company (Bangladesh) Ltd Dr Khalid Hasan presented the key findings of the EPI survey.
Prime Minister's Health Adviser Dr Syed Modasser Ali, State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Capt (retd) Mojibur Rahman Fakir, Health Secretary Sheikh Altaf Ali and Health and Population Affairs secretary of Awami League Dr Bodiuzzaman Bhuiyan (Dablu) also spoke at the function.
Representatives of the WHO and UNICEF also spoke on the occasion, joined, among others, by civil surgeons and field level officials from across the country.
Dr Ruhal Haque also said that the health sector would witness a change within the shortest possible time in the light of the vision 2021.
He termed the EPI coverage of 75 per cent as reasonably good and said efforts should be made to attain a hundred per cent success by bringing the areas, still remaining out of the healthcare services, within its network.
The health minister said that process was now underway to strengthen the existing monitoring and supervision in family planning and nutrition sectors to improve quality of healthcare services.
Capt (retd) Mojibur Rahman said that it was unfortunate that a large number of pregnant mothers were still out of the country's vaccination coverage.
Dr Syed Modasser Ali urged the civil surgeons to work in a coordinated manner for supplementing the government's efforts at bringing an evolutionary change in the health sector.
The EPI success was the first step of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasins'a vision of charter for change, Dr Bodiuzzaman Bhuiyan said and called upon all to target hundred per cent success in this area in a short time.
"Due emphasis will be given on the inaccessible areas, where improved treatment facilities have not yet reached," he said while addressing a function on publication of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Coverage Survey-2009 in the city.
Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services Professor Shah Monir Hossain chaired the function while Managing Director of Nielsen Company (Bangladesh) Ltd Dr Khalid Hasan presented the key findings of the EPI survey.
Prime Minister's Health Adviser Dr Syed Modasser Ali, State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Capt (retd) Mojibur Rahman Fakir, Health Secretary Sheikh Altaf Ali and Health and Population Affairs secretary of Awami League Dr Bodiuzzaman Bhuiyan (Dablu) also spoke at the function.
Representatives of the WHO and UNICEF also spoke on the occasion, joined, among others, by civil surgeons and field level officials from across the country.
Dr Ruhal Haque also said that the health sector would witness a change within the shortest possible time in the light of the vision 2021.
He termed the EPI coverage of 75 per cent as reasonably good and said efforts should be made to attain a hundred per cent success by bringing the areas, still remaining out of the healthcare services, within its network.
The health minister said that process was now underway to strengthen the existing monitoring and supervision in family planning and nutrition sectors to improve quality of healthcare services.
Capt (retd) Mojibur Rahman said that it was unfortunate that a large number of pregnant mothers were still out of the country's vaccination coverage.
Dr Syed Modasser Ali urged the civil surgeons to work in a coordinated manner for supplementing the government's efforts at bringing an evolutionary change in the health sector.
The EPI success was the first step of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasins'a vision of charter for change, Dr Bodiuzzaman Bhuiyan said and called upon all to target hundred per cent success in this area in a short time.