Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain has said that, thanks to the efforts of doctors, the quality of the country’s health care is better than at any time in the past.
Doctors’ attendance has now been ensured in full at most upazila health complexes, he said, and the quality of food in hospitals has also improved.
He was speaking as chief guest at a discussion on Monday (9 November) marking the opening of a newly built four-storey steel-structure building at the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute in the capital. The event was chaired by Professor Dr AKM Azizul Haque, chairman of the institute’s governing board.
The minister said the country’s doctors were carrying out complex surgery and treatment skilfully and in a short time, which he called strong proof of the health sector’s capacity. He praised doctors’ skill, courage and humane treatment of patients.
“I am not a doctor, but I respect doctors and want to work for them,” he said, adding that no government initiative to develop the health sector could succeed without their cooperation.
On hospital drainage and waste management, the minister said a separate project worth several thousand crore taka had been taken up to solve the problem permanently, and work was under way to manage medical and general waste separately.
He said the government was working to ensure better, modern and affordable care for every person in the country and to build a corruption-free, people-friendly health system, and he sought the cooperation of the media and others.
Earlier, the minister opened the ICU, post-operative unit, e-registration, QR code service and outpatient department at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) and took part in a discussion there. He announced an allocation of Tk 50 crore for the institute’s development.
The NITOR event was chaired by its director, Professor Dr Md Abul Kenan. Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) president Professor Dr Harun Al Rashid and secretary general Dr Md Zahirul Islam Shakil were among those present.
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