Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal called for bringing every diabetic patient under healthcare service through preparing a statistics across the country.
“Though the diabetes is not a curable disease, but it could be controlled and awareness building programme could reduce about diabetes and its complications among the general people,” he said this on Saturday while speaking as the chief guest at a memorial meeting at Birdem Hospital.
Bangladesh Diabetes Association (BDA) organized the memorial meeting on the occasion of 25th death anniversary of National Professor Dr M Ibrahim and Service Day, with its president AK Azad Khan in the chair. The memorial was also addressed, among others by, Director General of Birdem Hospital Nazmun Nahar, vice president of BDA Major General (retd) AR Khan, secretary general M Saifuddin, Dr Sayeed Haider, Sabera Sayeed and SA Monsur (Sakil).
“It is necessary to find out each and every diabetes patients at upazila and village level to bring under service,” the minister said.
Kamal said rural level patient would be benefited on availability of diagnosis at every community clinic across the country.
Speakers at the memorial meeting said the number of diabetes patients in the Birdem Hospital was 5,48,849 till August 5, 2014 and 1,897 diabetes patients are being registered to the hospital per month.
