Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the partners to support community healthcare in developing countries and support community-based primary healthcare services. He needs the support of developing countries to reach health care to everyone.
He made this call at a plenary session of the high level side-event titled ‘Sheikh Hasina Initiative of Community Clinic: Innovative Approaching Universal Health Coverage Inclusive of Mental Health and Disability’ on the sideline of the 78th session of the UNGA at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Source: Bass
Sheikh Hasina said, ‘We are calling on our multilateral financial organizations, including our advanced partners, to extend their support to community-clinic health services in the developing world.’
The Prime Minister said, ‘We feel encouraged to attend your oath this year to accelerate our collective work in the poison of sustainable development and universal health.’
Sheikh Hasina also said that Bangladesh as the voice of Global South will be the champion of the issue as a possible means of international partnership.
‘From our part, Bangladesh is ready to exchange perception and skills with those interested. Health is rooted in all the happiness. We want to bring joy all around through community clinics,’ the Prime Minister of Bangladesh said, "She is deeply grateful to the ministers and experts who expressed their feelings and promised their support at this moment."
‘We hope that this side event will be another sign of our common commitment to health and the welfare of our people and communities,’ he said.’
Sheikh Hasina said that they have understood that the re-opening of community clinics and their sustainability depends only on the local people who are the owners and protectors of their entities.
The Prime Minister also said that why 90 percent of service seekers express their satisfaction towards community clinics - this is the picture.
The head of government also said that their Parliament has passed the Community Clinic Health Support Trust Act in 2018 to facilitate its operations and funding process.
The Prime Minister thinks of five priorities for community clinics to reach the grassroots.
Health services at the grassroots level include five priorities to serve community clinics as a safeguard to prevent a huge amount of money, community clinics, especially NCDs, are Enable the development of digital health and daganistic services and to address the growing water-related health crisis such as dengue outbreak, to further improve the capacity of community clinics.
The remaining two are to improve screening and medical services for mental health and snoring disorders—to provide services to affected people and their families and to use community clinics as the primary building block for a robust data-driven health and nutrition programme.
This is the case Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) poison-based ambassador Sata Otazed, Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen, Health Minister Zahid Malek, Senior Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office Mohammad Salahuddin and Secretary of Health Service Department. Anatar Hossain Howladar was present.
’Community Clinic is a concept that has become an integral part of our primary healthcare system in Bangladesh. The United Nations General Assembly has recognized this model as the best practice for the rest of the developing world."
The Prime Minister said that the United Nations has recognized it as a ‘Sheikh Hasina initiative’ and she is humbly grateful.
Bangabandhukanya said that when he was first elected Prime Minister in 1996, ‘Health for All’ Community clinics were one of the innovative ideas they launched, he said, ‘I am inspired by the dreams of my father, our father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, for the door of our people to reach the doorstep of our people.’
Soon after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the Father of the Nation sought to set up a rural medical center to provide ‘minimum opportunities for medical assistance’ for the entire people.
The Prime Minister said, ‘Community clinics are the realization of his dreams and promises. He said, now there are about 14,500 community clinics, which are health, family-planning and nutrition-related. Designed to serve as an utan-stop center for the services, they are now all over the country ‘Community clinics are playing an important role in reducing the rate of neonatal, infant and maternal mortality,’ said Sheikh Hasina.’
She noted that 3,000 community clinics are providing efficient service facilities for the birth of 9.5 to 10 milligrams of people every month in the hospital, and 80 percent of women and children among the service seekers have become a center for public vaccination and have played a significant role in securing Covid-19 vaccine coverage.
‘We are planning to use community health services to help promote mental health and where possible to help them to combat social prejudice with mental health and to up-reference the community health service and updating their skills and skills,’ he said.’
Sheikh Hasina said her government is providing 27 preznastic drugs and three family planning items free of cost to community clinics, she said, ‘We give anti-diabetics and anti-hypertensive agents to antibodies. I have decided to replace.’
The Prime Minister said community clinics serve as referral porters for higher medical facilities in urgent and complex cases. He said, ‘Service providers are equipped with the Internet and digital devices for recording health data. They are also involved in social and behavioral changes for health and deterioration-related poisons.’
Noting that every 6,000 people in the community clinics are expected to bring coverage of the service, the Prime Minister said that the clinics are built on a unique model of public-private partnership, local people provide land for it and bear the cost of running the government.
The Prime Minister said that they were managed by the Net and local representatives from various sections of the society with the mandatory participation of women, he said, after the BNP-Jamaat government came to power in 2001, community clinics were kept in a neglected and abandoned condition for about seven years.
The keynote speaker at the event was Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) poison-based ambassador Satama and Jadja, while addressing the event, Sylveryta Elfreda Jacobs, the Prime Minister of Cint Marten, praised the people's doorsteps and the community clinics who achieved public health care coverage.
Maldives Deputy Health Minister Safita Mohammad Saeed said he was impressed by the powerful women leadership addressing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the event, and also praised the community clinic's initiative to facilitate the delivery of healthcare services to everyone.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Taufiq-e-Ilahi Chowdhury, ICT State Minister Junaid Ahmed Palak were present in the meeting.
Muhammad Abdul Muhith, the permanent representative appointed to the United Nations, conducted the program and Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Muhammad Imran was present. A video documentary on the role of community clinics to deliver healthcare at the grassroots level at the event was also shown.
