Nurjahan Begum, Adviser to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday said that the Health Protection Act, which has been in process for a long time, is at the final stage and it will be sent to the Cabinet next week.
She made these remarks on Friday afternoon while addressing an event as the chief guest at Dhaka University’s Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Hall. The event, titled “Celebrating the 200th Medical Camp,” was organized by Dreamer’s Consultation and Research in collaboration with the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
In response to a question, the health adviser said, "We should have given health cards to poor people earlier but that has not been done." The country's Health Protection Act started in 2014 but has not been completed yet.
After I assumed this post, I was given only 8 days. I said I don't know that, I need to know first and then will act accordingly. Two months have already been passed, we hope to put it in the cabinet by next week.
She said, the government cannot do all the work alone. Many organizations are working well in different parts of the country. But we cannot coordinate with them. He/she should be congratulated as he/she deserves. If good work is respected, this generation will learn from it.
Mentioning that the health sector should be organized, she said, this ministry was plagued with various problems. If we could work against dengue, we would not have to come to the hospital. We could not resist it. The health sector has reached a point where reform is almost impossible. It has to be broken and recast.
Regarding the medical care of the injured in the Anti-Discrimination Movement, she said, "We have tried our best to facilitate the treatment of the injured." In addition to doctors from the country, we have brought doctors from France, China. Then we brought eye specialist from Nepal for treatment. However, we could not improve the eyes of many patients.
We contacted doctors from the UK, China and France about amputees. We have sent one such person to the bank, whose medical expenses are around Tk 2 crore. One is in CMH, one is in burn unit which will cost Rs 4 crore to send to Australia. We are trying to send many such people abroad by talking to various organisations.
In the presidential speech, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Mamun Ahmed said, Dhaka University is the only university in the country which has formed a society not only in the academic side but also in this country. Students of this university have come forward when the people of the country have been frustrated or hindered. They made the impossible possible. An example of that, the students of this university led the way to make this July revolution
a success.
