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Tajul for incorporating diabetes disease topic in curriculum
DHAKA, Nov 14, 2019 (BSS) – 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) 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.
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