Staff Reporter :
The government is going to introduce “Health Protection Law” with a view to ensuring proper health services in the private hospitals across the country.
“We have taken planned to introduce ‘Health Protection Law’ with aim to strengthen the monitoring system and ensuring appropriate health services in the private hospitals all over the country,” State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Malek said in a press briefing in the Secretariat. The minister said, “The government is trying to control the medical costs and monitor the health services of the private hospitals. A wing has already been opened in the ministry to monitor the health services.”
“We have asked the top officials of the ministry to make the draft of the law for sending to the Cabinet for approval by this month,” he said.
About people’s interest in going to India for better treatment, the minister said, “Treatment in the government hospitals in Bangladesh is good. But heart, kidney and cancer treatment is better in India. We are working to boost the medical treatment in these sectors.”
Besides, the government has taken a pilot project “Universal Health Coverage” to bring people under health insurance, he said. Zahid Malek informed that during the tenure of the current government, many new buildings had been constructed in different medical colleges and 13,000 physicians, 15,000 nurses and 16,000 employees were appointed while the process for recruiting 10,000 more physicians, 5,000 nurses and 40,000 employees is underway.
The ministry will observe “World Health Day” at Osmani Memorial Auditorium on April 7.
