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Alamgir blasts drug policy

'Msgor reform programme to ensure better health services taken'
Health and Family Welfare Minister Salahuddln Yusuf yesterday said the government has taken a major reform programme to ensure better health services in the next five years, reports BSS.
A major reform has been proposed in the fifth health and population programme (HAPP-5) which we want to implement in the next five-year with a view to establishing an effective and efficient health and family welfare services delivery system in the country, he said while a workshop addressing as the chief guest here.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) jointly organised the workshop, "contemporary health situation in Bangladesh" at the NEC Bhaban.
A total of 15 technical papers related to health, family planning, demography and social statistics prepared by the experts from the survey components of the health and demographic survey (HDS) of BBS conducted during 1994 to 1997 were presented in the workshop.
State Minister for Planning. Civil Aviation and Tourism Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr M Amanul-lah and Health Secretary Mo-
JledrMary. ,>el partment of statistics, chaired the workshop.
Yusuf said the health sector was the most neglected one and there was no administration or discipline within it when the present government came to power. But the present democratic government, he said, is committed to ensuring basic minimum health care for the entire population with particu-
lar emphasis on health of mothers, children and the poor.
The health minister said a total of 1.024 doctors have already been appointed and 394 more posts for doctors are being created for fresh recruitment. He said appointment of another 4,000 nurses are underway. Besides, the government has set up a committee for formulating the "national health policy" and a high-level committee for reorganising the health and family welfare sector, he said. Moreover, the government will reorganise the "drug policy" of the country very soon. Yusuf informed the workshop while responding to a question of Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir.
Alamgir criticised the existing drug policy and said that the policy could not bring about । minimum development in the health sector but made some drug industrialists rich.
He said the people of the country shall have to be made conscious about modern treatment so that they are not compelled to go to fake 'peers' and fakirs.
Prof Amanullah underlined the need for reducing unwantfed fertility in the country and said the government has already decided to substantially change its strategy of providing services considering the need for ■ improving the health status of the poor and'the .mothers at v large, He alsosaid that-the gov- ; ernment is going to launch the HAPP-5 in July next.