Women, girls' health neglected in country
Speakers yesterday underscored the need for cooperation among different government and NGOs to achieve health related targets of Sustainable Development Goals.
They also suggested the government improve primary healthcare services in rural areas.
They said this at the National Consultation on SDGs and the role of Universal Health Coverage, organised by Health Economics Unit of the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) at a hotel in the capital.
In her speech, Argentina Matavel Piccin, UNFPA representative in Bangladesh, said health issues of women and girls are neglected in the country. Most of the women who work in tea gardens are deprived of basic health facilities and suffer from various problems, she said.
In many areas, women could not get medical facilities because of poor communication system, Piccin said, adding that poor women, at times, could not avail health services in want of money. Director of USAID Mellissa Jones emphasised ensuring health facilities for all and skilled birth attendants for the pregnant mothers.
Director General of Directorate General of Health Services Mohammad Wahid Hossain said to achieve SDG targets ministries and organisations need to help each other.
State Minister for Health Zahid Malik said they are also trying to improve their IT-based service to take health services to rural and remote areas.
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