GAIBANDHA, March 3, 2020 (BSS) – Speakers at a workshop today said mother and child mortality rate has reduced significantly in the country due to effective initiatives taken by present government.
Delivery by skilled birth attendants has made good contribution to
reducing both mother and child mortality rate, they told at the workshop on
‘Family planning, mother-child health, reproductive health of the adolescents
and nutrition’ in the conference room of District Collectorate Building here.
Department of Family Planning (DFP) in cooperation with Information,
Education and Motivation (IEM) unit of Directorate General of Family Planning
(DGFP) organised the workshop.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abdul Matin addressed the workshop as the chief
guest while Civil Surgeon Dr ABM Abu Hanif spoke as special guest with Deputy
Director of DFP here Saiful Islam in the chair.
A welcome speech was also delivered by Assistant Director, clinical
contraception of DFP, Dr Faruk Azmi Noor in the function.
Deputy Programme Manager of IEM unit of DGFP Israt Jabin made a
presentation on the achievements of the department in recent years through
multimedia projector.
In the presentation, she said now the maternal mortality rate against per
thousand is 1.7 while it was 3.2 in 2004 and child mortality rate is 38 and
it was 87 in 2004 and the institutional delivery rate had stood to 49 from 27
in 2004.
DC Abdul Matin called upon the journalists to write positive reports to
educate the people about different aspects of family planning to contain
population growth.
A total of 35 journalists from print and electronic media took part in the
workshop.