BSS, Dhaka :
Syngenta Bangladesh Limited, a world leading agribusiness company, has started providing doctors with necessary training so they can handle the cases of pesticide poisoning more effectively.
The Switzerland-based multi-national company so far trained 62 doctors in two districts – Bogra and Jessore – where the risk of pesticide poisoning is high due to cropping pattern.
The company arranged the training programme styled “Doctors Training on Handling Pesticide Poisoning” for 30 doctors from Bogra and 32 from Jessore districts. The participant doctors came from different upazila and district level hospitals.
“The training programme is very essential for Bangladeshi doctors as we are an agro-based country,” said Bogra Civil Surgeon Dr. Shahadat Hossain who was the chief guest at the doctors’ programme in the district, held late last month.
He expected that such a training programme would continue to make doctors capable of handling cases of pesticide poisoning at the first place.
Jessore Civil Surgeon Dr. Atiqur Rahman Khan said the training would help safe life as doctors would take care of cases of pesticide poisoning more efficiently and properly.
Assistant director of the 250-bed Jessore General Hospital Dr. Shyamal Krishna Saha said earlier doctors had to face various problems to handle the poisoning cases, but many doctors became confident and efficient to handle cases of pesticide poisoning after getting the training.
Syngenta organised the training in Jessore last week where the two senior doctors attended as chief and special guests accordingly.
Associate Professor of Medicine of Dhaka Medical College Dr. Md Robed Amin, consultant of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Dr. Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Registrar of Department of Tropical Medicine of Mymensingh Medical College Dr.
Ariful Basher and Regional Medical Adviser of Syngenta Asia Pacific Dr. Peter Loke participated in the technical sessions of the programmes in the two districts.
Besides, Toxicology Society of Bangladesh General Secretary Dr. Robed Amin, Syngenta R&H (Research and Development) lead Mahbub Rahman and Syngenta stewardship manager Mohammad Habibullah attended the programme.
