‘Public health will also be included to NAP’

City Desk :
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury on Tuesday said public health will also be included to the National Adaptation Plan (NAP).
“Health issue was not included to the 113 agendas of NAP. Now we are considering to include health issue to NAP. Environment has a relation with public health,” he told reporters after a meeting, reports BSS.
Chairman and first secretary of the Climate Health and Environment Group at the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka Dr Daniel Novak met Environment Minister Saber Hossain at his Secretariat office here. Environment Secretary Farhina Ahmed and First Secretary of the Swedish Embassy Nayoka Martinez-Backström were present, among others.
Saber Hossain said a new NAP could not be formulated now but his ministry wants to bring the health issue in the current structure of NAP.
He said the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka has been working on this issue for a long time. “They have already given us some of their recommendations. So I spoke to them today about how we can move forward with this matter. We will not formulate a separate health NAP but want to add the health issue to the present NAP,” he said.