Sylhet Bureau :
Adviser to BNP Chairperson Khandaker Abdul Muktadir said that martyred President Ziaur Rahman took groundbreaking steps in the development of health system.
The benefits of which are still being enjoyed by the people of Bangladesh. Among the historic 19 points of Shaheed Zia, 10 points are ‘arrangement of minimum medical treatment for the countrymen’ which he has demonstrated in practice.
Soon after independence, the public health infrastructure collapsed with outbreaks of malnutrition, rising birth rates, smallpox, diarrhoea, cholera and other waterborne diseases which were quickly addressed by the then President Shahid Zia.
As a result of effective initiatives in Bangladesh, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Maternal and Child Health Care took up the ‘Tetanus Vaccination’ program in 1991 under the leadership of National Leader Begum Khaleda Zia during the BNP government.
He also said, I thank all the hospitals and doctors and health workers who have contributed and continue to provide medical services to the injured students who took part in the movement to demand the quota reform and later the downfall of Sheikh Hasina.
They did not forget their professional responsibilities in the oppression of dictatorship and provided brave treatment to the leaders and activists of BNP and opposition parties for 17 years. They are brave warriors. The medical community is a conscious citizen of this country.
From the language movement to the sacrifice of doctors in the liberation war of 1971, martyred Dr. Milan’s self-sacrifice transformed the movement into a mass uprising. Similarly, the students of medical society and medical college actively participate in this anti-discrimination student movement. As a result, Dr. Many doctors including Sajib were martyred and we got an independent state.
He said the above in his speech as the chief guest on Friday (October 18) to the health workers of Sylhet Women’s Medical College Hospital, Ibnesina Hospital, North East Medical College Hospital and Mound Edora Hospital for their special contribution to the medical care of those killed and injured in the July-August student-crowd movement.
Organizing Secretary (Sylhet Division) of the Central Committee of Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) and President of Sylhet District Dr.Nazmul islam and Sylhet Metropolitan BNP’s former organizing secretary Mukul Ahmad Murshed conducted the programme.
Sylhet Metropolitan BNP General Secretary Imdad Hossain Chowdhury delivered the welcome speech at the ceremony. Syed Misbah Uddin, former joint convener of Sylhet Metropolitan BNP former councilor Najibur Rahman Najib, Metropolitan BNP organizing secretary Syed Safek Mahbub spoke as special guests in the programme.
Chief Medical Officer of Ibnesina Hospital, Major (retd.) Abdus Salam, Deputy Director of Sylhet Women’s Medical College Hospital, Dr. Dr. Tafhim Ahmad Rifat, Deputy Director of Mound Edora Hospital.
Tanviruzzaman. Shubo Chandrasheel, Ayesha Siddiqui Priya, Team Leader Mohammad Ibrahim, Muktar Ahmad spoke on behalf of the nurses on the occasion.
District BNP Joint Secretary Siddiqur Rahman Paplu, Metropolitan BNP Former Student Affairs Secretary Nurul Alam Siddiqui Khaled, Humayun Ahmad Masuk, Motiul Bari Khurshid, Member Secretary of District Volunteers Party Shakil Murshed, Mound were also present in the event which began with the recitation of Quran by BNP leader Abdul Malek. Dr. Edora Hospital Registrar. Raihan Ahmad, Akhtar Rashid Chowdhury, Afzal Uddin, Abul Kalam, Mufti Raihan Uddin Munna, Abdur Rahim Mallik, Shuaib Ahmed Shoaib, Manjurul Hasan Manju, Md. Lutfur Rahman Mohan, Khairul Islam Khair, Tarek Ahmad Khan, Abdul Wadud Milan among the ward presidents. , Md. Nazim Uddin, Mizan Ahmad, Kazi Muhibur Rahman Muhib, District Chhatra Dal General Secretary Diloar Hossain Dinar, Mahanagar Chhatra Dal General Secretary Fazle Rabbi Ahsan, Ward BNP General Secretary Md. Rafiqul Islam Rafiq, Faiz Uddin Murad, Sabbir Ahmad, Nazrul Islam, Syed Lokmanuzzaman, Dewan Arafat Chowdhury Zaki, Abdul Malik Seku, Rubel Box, Minhaj Pathan, Syed Rahim Ali Rasu, Alamgir Hossain, Nazir Hossain also attend the programme.