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Doctors should dedicate themselves to medical services with their own responsibility, creativity, mindfulness and ability, said Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus.

The Chief Advisor said this at the inaugural ceremony of the Civil Surgeons Conference at the Shapla Hall of the Chief Advisor’s office on Monday. The two-day conference of district civil surgeons began on Monday. This conference is being held for the first time in Bangladesh.

At the conference, the Chief Advisor said, we all understand that healthcare is unhealthy and we blame each other. But blaming will not eliminate the unhealthy. This must be remedied so that we can improve healthcare. If all the countries and nations in the world can improve their healthcare better than us, then what is our negligence, what is our deficiency that we cannot. We should ask ourselves how we can fix this.

The Chief Advisor said, “With all the medical equipment or facilities we have, if we can make up our minds to change in this situation, I am sure that Bangladesh’s health service will improve by 25 percent.”

At the conference, Health Advisor Nurjahan Begum congratulated all the doctors for risking their lives during the Covid pandemic and the July Movement.

Mentioning the civil surgeons as the main pillar in healthcare, she further said, “Although we have achieved considerable success in the health sector, the health sector of Bangladesh is still far behind due to the obvious shortage of manpower including medicines and equipment. But civil surgeons will use their intellectual thinking and responsibility to take the medical sector forward.”

The Health Advisor said that the promotion work is underway by creating seven thousand supernumerary posts. He expressed the hope that not only doctors but also nurses will be recruited.

Special Assistant Professor Dr. Sayedur Rahman, Chief Advisor’s Health Ministry related to the Ministry of Health, said that the improvement of the health sector is possible only if the problems of promotion, posting, budget and medicine insufficiency are resolved. He also mentioned that a unique health card will be made for the reorganization of the health sector.

Dhaka Civil Surgeon Dr. Md. Zillur Rahman and Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services Dr. Abu Zafar also spoke at the conference.

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