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HEALTH-SYSTEM-MEETING (with picture)
GO-NGO collaboration efforts vital to ensure healthcare services to all
RAJSHAHI, Oct 1, 2018 (BSS)- Health experts and development activists here
unanimously viewed that collective efforts of all government and non-
government entities concerned can be the vital means of ensuring health and
family planning services to all.
They mentioned that the present government under the dynamic leadership of
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working relentlessly to ensure health
and family planning services to all.
So, all the field level public and private organizations working in this
field should supplement the government endeavor through discharging their
duties with utmost sincerity and honesty.
They came up with the observation while addressing a “District Level
Coordination Meeting on health system strengthening among Directorate General
of Health Services, Directorate General of Family Planning and SRC-DASCOH” at
Simanta Conference Hall in Rajshahi city today.
DASCOH Foundation organized the meeting under its ‘Public Health
Improvement Initiative Rajshahi (PHIIR) Project in association with Swiss Red
Cross (SRC).
Some 46 persons including health and family planning workers and other
stakeholders attended the meeting.
Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Aminul Islam addressed the
meeting as chief guest with Divisional Director of Health Dr Anisur Rahman in
the chair. DASCOH Chief Executive Officer Akramul Haque and SRC Health
Delegate Angela Bommer spoke as special guests.
During his keynote presentation, Shafiqul Islam, Manager of the project,
gave an overview of project status including its lesson learnt and way
forward.
He told the meeting that the PHIIR project is being implemented in 73
Community clinics, 22 Union Health and Family Welfare Centres and five
Upazila Health Complexes in Rajshahi and Naogaon districts with the main
thrust of improving health status at primary health care and mother, neonatal
and child health.
Aminul Islam called for infusing more dynamism into the essential service
delivery activities of community clinics for ensuring healthcare services to
the marginalized communities for their betterment.
He stressed the need on boosting coordination between the works of
government and non-government organizations concerned so that the grassroots
people can derive total benefits of the community clinics and other upazila
and village level health and family planning institutions.
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