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The Secretary of the Department of Health Services, Abdul Mannan, stressed the need to do more so that people do not become poor for treatment.
He spoke as a special guest at a seminar on the occasion of Public Health Day 2020 organized by the Health Economic Unit of the Ministry of Health at the Sonargaon Hotel in the capital on Saturday. Health Minister Zahid Malek was the main guest of the seminar.
The secretary said that according to statistics, 5 million people are becoming impoverished each year as a result of out-of-pocket expenses. Eighty percent of these people go to India, Singapore, Bangkok for treatment.
When asked why people have to go abroad for treatment, the secretary said: “We have to think about it and decide what to do.”
He said there are 610 government hospitals in the country. There are more than 90,000 doctors. If necessary, manpower will be increased. But more needs to be done to ensure that people do not become impoverished by seeking treatment. If good treatment services are not guaranteed, people will go abroad and become poor to cover medical expenses. It cannot be allowed to happen.
The secretary said that they are working on 49 projects for the development of the health sector. He also said that appropriate initiatives will be taken to reduce the number of people who travel abroad for treatment.
General Director of the Health Economics Unit. Maryland. Shahadat Hossain chaired the seminar and the Director General of the Department of Health, Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, and the Deputy Representative of the World Health Organization in Bangladesh. Bhupinder Aolakh.
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