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'FP programme hampered in urban slum areas'

UPHCP-2 logo 'Rainbow' launched

Staff Correspondent
LGRD and Cooperatives Adviser Anwarul Iqbal yesterday said the 2nd phase of Urban Primary Health Care Project (UPHCP) is in operation to reach health services to the poor living in urban slums after the successful completion of its first
The adviser was speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural function of the service brand logo 'Rainbow' of UPHCP-2 at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centrein the city.
UPHCP-2 and Bangladesh Centre for Communication Programme (BCCP) jointly organised the programme with UPHCP Project Director Jamal A Naser Chowdhury in the chair.
The local government department and LGRD ministry are implementing the 2nd phase of the project with the help of 13 nongovernment organisations.
The adviser said poor people in rural areas are flocking to urban areas due to river erosion and scarcity of employment opportunities, but the infrastructures and health services at urban hospitals are not increased leaving them more vulnerable to different diseases.
Family planning (FP) programme is greatly hampered in urban slum areas, as birth rate in the areas is 5 or 6 percent while nationally it is only 1.41 percent, he added.
Speakers at the programme said
the UPHCP-2 is trying to reach primary health service on the doorstep of the poor people and 'Rainbow' will help the target group as their guide in this effort.
The project will mainly address malnutrition, unhygienic and reproductive health problems among the urban poor, they added.
They said 85 percent of poor mothers give birth to babies at home, and that 80 percent of them die during childbirth a year.
The health services of the project are available at 24 urban maternity centres, 161 urban healthcare centres and 644 satellite centres in six city corporations and five municipalities across the country.
The speakers stressed on making familiar the service brand logo so that illiterate people can easily detect the location of UPHCP-2, adding that urban poor cannot avail services of private clinics, hospitals and even of the government hospitals as they are not conscious.
Public representatives of city corporations and municipalities of the respective areas, NGO workers and people from cross sections of the society attended the programme.
Health and Family Welfare Secretary AMM Nasir Uddin, BCCP Director and CEO Md Shajahan and Director General of Directorate General of Family Planning Begum Quamrun Nessa Khanam also spoke.