WHO praises Bangladesh's healthcare success
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Margaret Chan has praised Bangladesh for its outstanding performance in evolving a pluralistic healthcare system.
At a ministerial meeting on “United Health Coverage” in Singapore, Margaret Chan, quoting from The Lancet, a medical journal, said Bangladesh has made tremendous strides in different health indicators like survival of under-five, immunisation, and tuberculosis control, read a foreign ministry media release yesterday.
Despite its resource constraints, Bangladesh has successfully evolved a pluralistic healthcare system that combines the government and NGOs with a focus on women's participation in its health indicators such as family planning, immunisation, oral rehydration therapy, and vitamin A supplements, she added.
Margaret Chan also mentioned Bangladesh's success in achieving gender equity and applauded Bangladeshi women's support in national development.
Quoting The Lancet report, she said Bangladesh's healthcare system has successfully addressed the first generation of poverty-linked infections, and nutrition and maternity related diseases.
Representatives from over 15 selected countries, including health ministers of Bangladesh, Brunei, Finland, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and high officials from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and South Korea, are attending the meeting being held with the theme “Universal Health Coverage - the post-2015 challenges”. The meeting, inaugurated by Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, also includes a panel session on infrastructure, manpower and financing for UHC, social determinants of UHC, challenges for ageing and fiscal sustainability, and non-communicable diseases and UHC.
Bangladeshi Health Minister Mohammad Nasim thanked the WHO DG for acknowledging the country's successes.
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