Diabetic patients to get free insulin at community clinics: PM

UNB :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday announced that the government will provide free insulin to the diabetic patients of the country through community clinics.
She said this while addressing the second graduation completion programme of Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital & Nursing College.
“We have decided that we will include insulin in the list of free medicines of the community clinics across the country for the diabetic patients,” she said.
Currently, the government is providing 30 types of medicines free of cost through the community clinics.
“We will give away insulin free of cost so that the diabetic patients could get relief,” she added.
The prime minister called upon the country’s youth to get nursing education and training engage to provide nursing services on a large scale.
“I will call on the youth folk to come forward to receive nursing education and engage them in nursing service. It will not only create employment at home but also abroad,” she said.
She believed that Bangladesh will also move ahead in this (nursing) field as the country is moving ahead in every field. “…and I want this,” she said.
Hasina, also the chair of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust, disclosed that it will establish a medical college alongside this hospital and nursing college.
Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialized Hospital and Nursing College (SFMMKPJSH&NC), named after the Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib, was established by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust.
She said that the government has always regarded the nursing as a dignified profession and provided priority for its development.
She said that Bangabandhu established related institutes and took various steps to increase the dignity of nursing profession, development of nursing services and technology.