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Building a sustainable health system without public health experts is impossible: State Minister for Health

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Building a sustainable health system without public health experts is impossible: State Minister for Health
State Minister for Health Dr. M A Muhit remarked that a sustainable health system cannot be built only by addressing temporary problems or doing ‘firefighting’. He said there is no alternative to involving public health experts in policy-making and field-level planning to move away from a treatment-dependent model and ensure preventive health care. He said these things in his speech as chief guest at the freshers' reception ceremony of the students of the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) in Mohakhali, the capital, on Tuesday (November 10).

Citing the recent measles and dengue situation as examples, the State Minister said that the health system cannot be propped up by applying ointment to an immediate crisis or doing work like emergency firefighting. Emphasizing decentralization in the health sector, he said that if district-based health management were organized by recruiting at least two public health experts in each of the country's 64 districts—128 in total—the picture of this sector would change radically. He also highlighted the government's plan to recruit 100,000 health workers to strengthen primary and preventive health care at this time.

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Referring to structural weaknesses, Dr. Muhit said that in the past, due to a lack of integrated planning, infrastructure and equipment were not used properly. Even after 54 years of independence, the number of nurses against each doctor remains equal or stuck at one, whereas it should be at least three. He urged bringing NIPSOM's own research journal back to the international database ‘PubMed’, and called on students to conduct research on national health issues.

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At the event presided over by NIPSOM Director Professor Dr. Nasrin Sultana, Special Guests who spoke included Member of Parliament Dr. Abu Mansur Sakhawat Hasan Jibon, DAB Secretary General Dr. Zahirul Islam Shakil, and Additional Director General of Health Education Professor Dr. Faruk Ahmed.

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