Govt working to reach health services of people’s doorsteps

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government is working to reach health services towards the doorsteps of people.

If her party gets another chance to serve the nation, they will further modernise and develop the district and upazila level hospitals.

The Prime Minister said this while virtually inaugurating 65 community eye centres at 65 Upazila Health Complexes in 28 districts, in the fourth phase, under Health and Family Welfare Ministry, from her official Ganabhaban residence on Monday.

The eye centres were launched as part of the current government's move to set up it at every upazila across the country.

The Prime Minister said they have built community hospitals across the country to reach primary healthcare services to every people’s doorsteps following the footsteps of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The community centres are distributing 30 types of medicines free of cost, she said, adding that the facilities are helping greatly reduce the child and mother mortality rate in Bangladesh.

After assuming power, she said the then BNP-Jamaat government halted the community-based healthcare services as they thought the people working there and taking healthcare services from those will cast vote for the Awami League.

But, the reality is that the clinics are rendering healthcare services to all irrespective of political affiliations, she said.

She said they would upgrade the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) to 4000 to 5000-bed hospital with ultramodern facilities.

The Prime Minister said they have upgraded each of the 32-bed upazila hospitals to 50-bed and 100-bed district hospital to 250-bed while big district hospitals were upgraded to 500-bed.

She said they have appointed 40000 nurses and 22000 physicians alongside started building houses for their accommodation.