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Number of heart patients on the rise

Minister assures surgical, intensive care services in public hospitals

Staff Correspondent
Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque at a seminar yesterday said the government would extend facilities of surgical and intensive care services for the patients of heart diseases at all public medical college hospitals.
Even it would ensure services at all the district-level hospitals through establishing coronary care units and other services as the number of the patients with heart ailments is on the rise, he said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is very keen to extend those facilities, the minister added.
Ruhal said this at the seminar organised by Bangladesh National Heart Foundation (BNHF) in the city NHFB President Justice Chowdhury ATM Masud chaired the semi-z>ar to mark the World Heart Day with the slogan 'Work with heart'.
He stressed the need for public-private partnership (PPP) in this regard as the overall’treatment cost for the disease is often beyond the reach of the poor.
BNHF also took out a procession from in front of the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at 9:00am which ended at National Heart Foundation Hospital.
Representative of World Health Organisation Dr Duangvadee Sungkhobol, NHFB Secretary General National Prof Brig (retd) Abdul Malik and Vice President Prof RK Khondoker also spoke.
The experts said some 1.72 crore people die every year across the world due to heart diseases and 80 percent of these immature
deaths occur in developing countries like Bangladesh.
They stressed the need for healthy working environment to keep their hearts sound.
They explained that healthy working environment has four advantages. It saves life, keeps the employees healthy, strengthens social bond and brings economic advantages by reducing treatment cost and absenteeism.
At the same time, it is important to take adequate fruits and vegetables, take exercise. control weight as well as to avoid smoking, they added.
According to the experts, tobacco use, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet leads to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar and obesity which are the main risk factors of heart diseases and strokes.
Different organisations chalked out a number of programmes, including rally and discussion, to mark the day as elsewhere across the globe.
Bangladesh Cardiac Society brought.out a procession with Baul songs highlighting heart disease prevention messages from in front of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
Bangladesh Society of Geriatric Cardiology organised a rally in Comilla in association with its partner organisations.
Our Khulna correspondent adds: Khulna unit of Heart Foundation, Bangladesh took out a colourful procession where Khulna City Corporation Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque took part.