Health care cost should be kept at a reasonable level: Education Minister
Dhaka: Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni thinks that the cost of health care should be kept at a reasonable level.
She said funding is a big issue after Bangladesh joins in the group of developed nation. That is why all measures should be taken in the health sector so that we can keep the cost of health care at a reasonable level. That is why the less we can control these non-communicable diseases, the less pressure we have on our health care system.
She was speaking as the chief guest at the concluding session of the first National Non-Communicable Diseases Control Conference on Friday (January 28).
The conference, which started on January 26 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka, ended on January 28. The conference was organized by 30 local and foreign organizations including Bangladesh Health Reporters Forum.
Dr. Dipu Moni said "We are going to add health care to our new curriculum,". Students will learn from what will be there and they will be able to move on. Our new generation will be much more aware if these are included in the health care curriculum. They will be healthier if they are aware.
"If we can prevent non-communicable diseases, we can build a healthy nation," she said. We can go a long way in preventing and treating non-communicable diseases.
"We are dealing with it successfully," she said. We are giving Covid vaccines; we have also got success in the field of treatment. We are going with the kind of conviction that we should go the way we should go. I am doing well in case of infectious disease.
Earlier, the Head of the Department of Cardiology at Dhaka Medical College Hospital Professor Abdul Wadud Chowdhury made the Dhaka Declaration. The Dhaka Declaration has been fixed for the Second National Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention Conference from February 1 to 7 next year.
Bangladesh Health Reporters Forum has received the National NCD Media Award at the Non-Communicable Diseases Control Conference. Dr. Dipu Moni handed over the award to President of the organization Rashed Rabbi and General Secretary Hasan Sohail.
Professor Pran Gopal Dutta MP, ICDDRB Executive Director Dr. Tahmid Ahmed, Founder and President of National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute, National Professor Brigadier General (Retd) MA Malek, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Saiful Hasan Badal and others were present.