Govt to recruit 5,493 doctors

Staff Reporter :

To improve healthcare services across the country, including the capital, the government will recruit 5,493 doctors through the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC).

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change, and Water Resources, shared this information during a briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Tuesday (March 4) afternoon.

Rizwana Hasan stated that 5,493 doctors will be appointed through the PSC to enhance healthcare services.

The decision was made at today’s Advisory Council meeting, which was presided over by Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

BSS adds: Rizwana said the rural people are deprived of healthcare facilities and that is why the main objective of the government’s decision at today’s meeting is to ensure that healthcare facilities and doctors are available at the rural level.

About the outcomes of the today’s meeting of the Advisry Council, she said the council took 135 decisions and a periodical review committee found that 92 decisions out of 135 have already been implemented. Implementation rate is about 68 percent, she added.

The adviser said the council of advisers decided to change the names of two institutions – Bangabandhu Science and Technology Fellowship Trust and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre.

She said the council also decided to determine the rate of saturated fat in food products maintaining the global standard.

Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam, Deputy Press Secretaries Apurba Jahangir and Abul Kalam Azad Majumder and Assistant Press Secretary Suchismita Tithi were also present at the press briefing.