The World Health Organisation (WHO) has nominated Saima Wazed Hossain Putul, the daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, for the South Asia Award for Excellence in Public Health.
She has been selected for the award in recognition of her “glorious and outstanding” contributions to create mass awareness about autism in Bangladesh.
Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has made the disclosure in a press conference at the capital’s Sonargoan Hotel on Monday morning.
The minister said Putul would receive the award on September 10.
Putul is the chair of the new national advisory committee on autism, meant to raise awareness of the developmental disorder in Bangladesh and in South Asia.