Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought doctors’ sincere supports to implement the 15-year Sustainable Development Goal to make the country’s healthcare system time befitting.
‘You have a very crucial role in implementing the SDG,’ she said while addressing the 13th convocation of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh in the city.
The premier said: ‘Most talented students come to the (medical) profession. Therefore, talented persons should extend all support to the government to take forward the country.’
Sheikh Hasina said the government adopted a 15-year SDG aimed at making the healthcare system befitting to time while a high-level committee has been formed to implement the goal and the government need all out cooperation of the physicians for its implementation.
She expressed her hope that BCPS would play its due role for development of human resources to implement the goal. ‘Medical service is not a profession only, it’s a pious practice,’ she said.
Health and family welfare minister Mohammad Nasim spoke on occasion as the special guest while BCPS president Professor M Sanawar Hossain delivered the convocation speech.
BCPS vice president Professor M Ruhul Amin gave the vote of thanks. Past BCPS president Professor SAM Golam Kibiria gave the welcome address. The prime minister entered the venue by leading a convocation procession. She wore a convocation gown on the occasion.
The prime minister said BCPS members became specialists in medical science by dint of their talent and sincerity and ‘so always you have to remember it and provide service to the patients.’
‘You have to nurture mentality of giving service in yourself and every patient should be treated as member of your own family,’ she said.
The premier said the doctors should not be unnerved in providing healthcare services even if pressures caused by the higher number of patients.
Sheikh Hasina said her government is working for widening the scope of higher education in medical science while specialised hospitals are being established one after another in the country and scholarships are being offered for higher studies including medical science from Prime Minister’s Trust Fund.
Source: New Age
