Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim has said the government will appoint 6,221 doctors after Eid to ensure health services to the people.
The minister made the statement while speaking at a view exchange meeting with officers and employees of health department and local elite in Government Ashek Mahmud College auditorium in Jamalpur on Saturday afternoon.
Nasim said: "Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had set up thana health complexes to reach health-care services to the rural people and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following her father. She has established community clinics across the country."
He said the BNP alliance had shut down those community clinics mere on political grounds in 2001.
"But we reopened the community clinics in 2009 that reach health services at the doorsteps of rural people," he added.
The minister directed the doctors and other staff of health department to discharge their duties with zeal and without any negligence.
About the pledge of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for setting up a medical college in Jamalpur district, he said the classes of Jamalpur Medical College would begin on January 10 in 2015.
He said the classes of Jamalpur Medical College will be held at Jamalpur General Hospital initially, and after site selection the permanent structure of the medical college will be constructed.
