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ADOLESCENT-HEALTH-SERVICES
Ensuring adolescent friendly health services stressed
RAJSHAHI, Nov 30, 2018 (BSS)-Administrative high officials and health
experts unequivocally called for ensuring adolescent friendly and
reproductive health services to the target group, including teenagers, for
the sake of attaining sound health of both mothers and children.
They vied that utmost importance should be given to ensuring the services
as protection of maternal and child health. This should be considered as a
precondition for materializing the dreams of developed Bangladesh by 2041,
they added.
They came up with the observation while addressing a daylong workshop
titled “Adolescent Friendly Health Services and Life Skill Education” at
Party Point conference hall in the city on Thursday.
Department of Family Planning (DFP) organized the divisional advocacy
workshop.
The workshop discussed ways and means on how to infuse dynamism into the
adolescent friendly and reproductive health services.
Various issues relating to creating awareness among the adolescents about
physical change, sexual and `reproductive health, hygiene and nutrition for
their normal and safer growth were discussed in the meeting.
Secretary to Health and Family Welfare Ministry GM Saleh Uddin addressed
the workshop as the chief guest with DFP Divisional Director Shafiqul Islam
in the chair.
The chief guest told the meeting that rate of maternal mortality has been
reduced to 170 from 320 in every lakh during the last 10 years. This rate
must be reduced to 70 by 2030, he added.
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