Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Wednesday called upon the young doctors to extend healthcare services to the people of the villages properly.
“You shall have to extend good and proper healthcare services going to villages so that services to the rural people are not hampered in anyway,” he said.
Mohammad Nasim said this at a function regarding formal joining of government services by the 34th batch BCS doctors and family planning officers at the auditorium of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) at Topkhana Road in the city.
Health Secretary Syed Manjurul Islam presided over the function, also addressed, among others, by director general of the Health Directorate Prof Dr Deen Md Nurul Haque, additional secretary (administration) of the Health Ministry Basudeb Ganguly, BMA president Prof Dr Mahmud Hasan, secretary general Prof Dr Iqbal Arsanal and general secretary of Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad Prof Dr Abdul Aziz.
Mohammad Nasim said, “We have been working relentlessly to reach healthcare services to the doorsteps of the people to honour the pre-poll pledge of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. We want to ensure healthcare services to every people of the villages. With affection of a mother, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working for the cause of the country, likewise, you have to extend services to the poor people of the villages.” The Health Minister said, “It has been made mandatory for the new appointees to work for two years at the places of their posting extending healthcare services to the common people. Going through their CVs (Curriculum Vitae), the newly recruited doctors have been posted in their own districts or upazilas and in case of a doctor-couple, arrangement has also been made for their posting at the same place.
So, the new appointees should ensure healthcare services to people for mandatory two years at the places of posting.”
