City Desk :
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam laid emphasis on incorporating preventive and curable measures in academic curriculum at the educational institutions to create awareness for controlling diabetes disease. “I am urging authorities concerned to incorporate diabetes disease at the school, college and university level curriculum to create awareness to check it (diabetes),” he said.
He stated this while addressing a discussion, organised by the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) on Thursday at BIRDEM Hospital’s auditorium in city’s Shahbagh area on the occasion of the ‘World Diabetes Day 2019’.Mentioning the examples of dengue situation, the minister said, when the government emphasized on raising public awareness rather than spraying pesticides, the outbreak of dengue was decreased, adding that incorporation of diabetes disease in teaching programme will also be an effective step to control it.
DAB President AK Azad Khan presided over the discussion while BIRDEM Hospital’s Professor Md Faruque Pathan presented the keynote paper on the occasion.
Professor Dr Zafar A Latif of BIRDEM Hospital gave the welcome speech in the discussion while DAB Secretary General Mohammad Saifuddin also attended it.
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam laid emphasis on incorporating preventive and curable measures in academic curriculum at the educational institutions to create awareness for controlling diabetes disease. “I am urging authorities concerned to incorporate diabetes disease at the school, college and university level curriculum to create awareness to check it (diabetes),” he said.
He stated this while addressing a discussion, organised by the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) on Thursday at BIRDEM Hospital’s auditorium in city’s Shahbagh area on the occasion of the ‘World Diabetes Day 2019’.Mentioning the examples of dengue situation, the minister said, when the government emphasized on raising public awareness rather than spraying pesticides, the outbreak of dengue was decreased, adding that incorporation of diabetes disease in teaching programme will also be an effective step to control it.
DAB President AK Azad Khan presided over the discussion while BIRDEM Hospital’s Professor Md Faruque Pathan presented the keynote paper on the occasion.
Professor Dr Zafar A Latif of BIRDEM Hospital gave the welcome speech in the discussion while DAB Secretary General Mohammad Saifuddin also attended it.
