After visiting the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) yesterday morning the US Ambassador to Dhaka Dan Mozena expressed his satisfaction in the quality of healthcare services in Bangladesh.
Answering the questions posed by journalists, he said, “Bangladesh achieved remarkable development in healthcare sector while the USA has a credit behind the development.”
“The rate of child death and maternal death reduced in Bangladesh to a great extent because of the bilateral relationship with US healthcare sector.”
The US ambassador arrived at CMCH around 9:45am where he inspected the Child Surgery Ward for an hour and talked to patients about the healthcare services which received at the hospital.
Expressing his satisfaction, he said physicians of the country’s second biggest hospital are giving treatment to the patients cordially while the CMCH also provides modern techno-based special treatment to its patients.
“The Bangladeshi physicians are acquiring more knowledge about technologies in the health sector by visiting hospitals in the USA and they can serve the patients with their newly acquired knowledge,” he said.
He said the USA would assist Bangladesh in health sector in future.
During the inspection, the CMCH Director Brigadier General Khondokar Shahidul Gani, Principal of Chittagong Medical College Selim Mohammad Jahangir, CMCH Child Surgery Ward Chairman Dr Tahmina accompanied Mozena.
Officials from the US embassy in Dhaka was also present during the visit.
