Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Margaret Chan on Thursday praised Bangladesh’s remarkable success in medicare services through community clinics.
Talking to BSS over phone from Geneva, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said the WHO, DG appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her initiatives to provide healthcare service to common people through the community clinics.
He said Chan also appreciated Bangladesh government for its effective steps to set up community health clinics across the country for taking healthcare services to the doorsteps of people.
Bangladesh Health Minister discussed various issues with the WHO, DG at her office in Geneva and said Dr Margaret lauded government’s success in EPI programmes.
Nasim also sought cooperation to continue the Millennium Development Goals-5 (MDGs) successfully.
He invited the WHO, DG to join the Regional Conference of WHO (South Asian Health Minister’s Conference) to be held in September in Dhaka.
Besides, Nasim urged the WHO’s DG to adopt Bangladesh’s proposal on autism, placed before the WHO general assembly. He expressed his gratitude to Dr Margaret for selecting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s daughter and autism specialist Saima Wazed Putul as a academic councilor on autism of WHO.
During the meeting, chairman of the National Autism and Neurosurgery Disorder Advisory Committee and the Global Autism Public Health, Saima Wazed Putul, Abdul Mannan, representative of Bangladesh permanent mission in Geneva were present. The WHO, DG expressed the hope that the country will go up in future under the able leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
