City Desk :
Community support has become crucial to make the rural healthcare facilities effective because these are very much important for the grassroots population, particularly the marginalized and less-income groups, during their emergency period. Time has come to generate awareness among the public in general about the importance of the facilities so that they can contribute to the field of ensuring maternal and neonatal healthcares to the target group of villagers. The observation came at a sustainability planning workshop for “Public Health Improvement Initiatives in Rajshahi” at Sapahar Upazila Parishad Hall room in Naogaon district recently.
DASCOH Foundation organised the meeting on behalf of its ‘Public Health Improvement Initiative Rajshahi (PHIIR)’ Project supported by Swiss Red Cross discussing and devising ways and means on how to attain the cherished goal, reports BSS.Upazila Chairman Shah Jahan Hossen addressed the meeting as chief guest, while Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdullah Al Mamun was in the chair.
Upazila Health and Family Welfare Officer Dr Ruhul Amin, Upazila Family Planning Officer Abdur Rahman, Union Parishad Chairman Rafiqul Islam, Capacity Building Manager of DASCOH Foundation Israt Jahan and PHIIR Project Manager Tozammel Haque also spoke.The meeting was told that the PHIIR project is being implemented in 110 community clinics, 42 Union Health and Family Welfare Centres and five Upazila Health Complexes in Rajshahi and Naogaon districts in order to improve health status at primary healthcare and mother, neonatal and child health.
Shah Jahan Hossen called for infusing more dynamism into the essential service delivery activities of the rural facilities for ensuring healthcares to the marginalized communities for their betterment. He stressed the need to boost coordination between the works of government and non-government organisations concerned so that the grassroots people can derive total benefits of the facilities.
Some 25 people, including the line department officials, public representatives, PHIIR project people and other stakeholders, joined the meeting with a set of recommendations to attain desired yield in this targeted field through government and non-government integrated efforts.
