Universal Health Coverage project

It is heartening to learn that the government has launched Universal Health Coverage (UHC) project on a pilot basis to bring poor people under national health coverage. Initially, health cards will be distributed among the poor families of three selected upazilas. The health card holders will be entitled to free treatment of 50 diseases in their respective upazilas.

                It may be mentioned here that due to climate change, the number of people suffering from asthma, respiratory, cardiovascular, air-borne and food-borne diseases will increase. Thus, I urge the government to make healthcare facilities throughout the country, including the capital, more effective and people friendly.