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Climate
change cell at Health Ministry soon
The
Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare of Bangladesh will “open a
new climate change cell to look into
the climate-induced disease burden
in the country”, the Health Minister
of Bangladesh, Prof. Dr AFM Ruhal
Haque announced on the 3rd of
December 2009.
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Joint UN Programme on Violence
Against Women
The formal signing ceremony of a new
joint UN-Agency initiative on
“Violence Against Women” took place
on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at a
local hotel. The Spanish MDG
Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has
approved $7,997,378 for Bangladesh
for this joint UN programme to
address issues relating to violence
against women in the country. This
will be a joint project, to be
implemented by the Government of
Bangladesh and nine other UN
Agencies: that include UNFPA, Unicef,
WHO, ILO, UNDP, IOM, UNESCO, UNIFEM
and UNAIDS.
On behalf of the United Nations, the
UN Resident Coordinator in
Bangladesh, and the Secretary,
Economic Relations Division of the
Ministry of Finance, on behalf of
the Government, signed the
programme document. The Heads of the
nine UN Agencies and the Secretaries
of the implementing eleven
ministries also signed the document
at the ceremony. The ministries are:
Ministry of Women and Children
Affairs, Ministry of Law, Justice
and Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry
of Social Welfare, Ministry of
Education, Ministry of Religious
Affairs, Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare, Ministry of
Information, Ministry of Labour and
Employment, Ministry of Youth and
Sports, Ministry of Local
Government, Rural Development and
Cooperatives and Ministry of
Expatriate Welfare and Overseas
Employment. The Multi-donor Trust
Fund of UNDP, will oversee the
financial aspects of the project and
fund release, over the three-year
project period, beginning in January
2010.
Reopening community clinics an
epoch-making step
Health
and Family Welfare Minister of
Bangladesh Dr AFM Ruhal Huq said
that the reopening of community
clinics was an epoch-making
initiative of the present government
for ensuring treatment facilities of
people. Prof. Ruhal said, the
government has already opened over
10,000 community clinics across the
country and 66 percent of the total
population would get health care, if
a total of 18,000 community clinics
will open by 2014. The minister was
addressing in a “National
Dissemination Workshop on
Revitalization of Community Clinics”
as Chief Guest at the Spectra
Convention Centre, Dhaka. World
Health Representative to Bangladesh
Dr Duangvadee Sungkhobol and
Additional Health Secretary of the
Health Ministry Mr Barun Dev Mitra,
among others, addressed in the
morning session of the workshop with
Director General of Health Services
Prof Shah Manir Hossain in the
chair. The day long dissemination
workshop was organized into three
separate sessions. The other two
sessions were addressed by Prof.
(Dr) Syed Modasser Ali, Advisor to
the Hon’ble Prime Minister and Dr
Capt. (Rtd) Mozibur Rahman Fakir,
State Minister for the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare.
Seminar held on Good Manufacturing
Practices for Drugs
T
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Bangladesh Health & FW Minister, Professor Dr AFM
Ruhal Haque warned against pilferage of medicine from
hospitals and health complexes, and also against
manufacturing and sales of adulterated drugs.
Addressing a seminar at the CIRDAP auditorium on
November 3 2009, organized by the Drug Administration,
with the assistance from WHO Bangladesh, he said, “we
can be proud of our pharmaceutical manufacturing
sector. After fulfilling 97% of the local demand for
medicines we are exporting to 72 countries, including
some EU countries. This is good news for our economy.
Some of our local companies are producing High Tech
drugs, such as those prescribed for Cancer and insulin
therapy. We will also be able to produce
export-quality vaccines in the coming years”.
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Expert Group
Meeting organized by WHO EDM Unit
A
four-day-long Expert Group Meeting
to review and finalize the Handbook
and Facilitator’s Guide on Medical
Ethics was held during 27-30 October
2009 at a local hotel in Dhaka. The
aim of the meeting was to review and
finalize the contents of the
above-mentioned documents. The
Director-General of Health Services
of the Bangladesh Government,
Professor Shah Monir Hossain, was
the Chief Guest at the inaugural
function of the four-day-long
meeting, while Acting WHO
Representative to Bangladesh, Dr
Khaled Hassan, was the Special
Guest. The meeting was chaired by
Prof. M Muzaherul Huq, WHO Regional
Advosor of Human Resources for
Health. The Meeting was organized
with support of the WHO Regional
Office for South-East Asia. Twenty
experts from different countries of
the South East Asian Region
attended the meeting.
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Seminar on Fast
Track Licensing for
WHO Pre- qualified
Vaccines held
 Bangladesh
is progressing through a set
of required steps of a
pre-qualification process to
produce high quality
vaccines. The Bangladesh
Health Minister, Prof. A F M
Ruhal Haque has assured all
concerned of his firm
commitment to get it done as
early as possible. He was
speaking as Chief Guest at a
“Dissemination Seminar on
Fast Track Licensing for WHO
Pre-qualified Vaccines Used
in EPI” held on October 11
2009.
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World Breast Feeding
Week Observed
PM directed implementation
of Alternative Child Food
Act
 Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina
directed the authorities
concerned to enforce the
Alternative Child Food
Marketing Act at all levels
and stressed immediate need
for separate management of
the entire spectrum of
nutrition programmes. She
also instructed the Ministry
of Health and the
Breastfeeding Foundation to
work jointly to ensure
children's breastfeeding and
their comprehensive food as
well as necessary nutrition
of the mothers.
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Core Capacity
Assessment Report on
implementation
of IHR-2005 in
Bangladesh disseminated
 A
Report of Core Capacity
Assessment for
implementation of
(International Health
Regulations) IHR 2005 in
Bangladesh was disseminated
at a workshop held on
Saturday, July 25, 2009, at
the IEDCR Auditorium.
Describing both the
strengths and weaknesses of
the overall system, the
evaluation report pointed
out that “for implementation
of IHR 2005 in Bangladesh
there is an established
disease surveillance
system.
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World Health Day 2009 observed
 The
World Health Day (WHD) was observed in Bangladesh as
elsewhere across the Globe on Tuesday, the April 7
2009 with the slogan ‘Safe Lives: Make Hospitals Safe
in Emergencies’. With the prime focus on the theme of
the day “Health facilities in emergencies”, the
government organised a series of interesting week-long
events beginning from April 7 in all the health
facilities of the country to ensure best services
through utilizing existing resources with a commitment
to increasing health care facilities and services for
the disaster-hit people during emergency situations.
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