WHO lauds Bangladesh for hosting regional meeting

The WHO regional director has lauded Bangladesh for successfully hosting its annual meeting that ended Friday adopting resolutions on key health issues.
This is one of the most successful regional committee meetings we ever had,” Poonam Khetrapal Singh told journalists after the conclusion of the gatherings of the health ministers of eleven countries and experts, according to a news agency.
Before meeting the press, at a concluded session, she said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to the meeting “on a record three occasions”.
“It was an honour for us. We used to have prime minister just in the inauguration,” she said.
Hasina inaugurated the 32nd health ministers’ meeting and 67th session of the WHO’s Regional Committee for South East Asia Region (SEARO) on Sep 9.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, North Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste are the members of the SEARO.
The Regional Committee which is the constitutional body of the WHO discussed issues like traditional medicine, viral hepatitis, civil registration and vital statistics, ways of reducing harmful use of alcohol, and health workforce education and training in this region during the meetings.