Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said that the government is working to upgrade the country's healthcare infrastructure to world-class standards.
The inauguration of a newly-built community clinic in Cox’s Bazar is one of the steps among various initiatives taken for upgrading health services, said the minister.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has also participated in this effort of the government in other parts of the country including Cox's Bazar.
The minister said: “ The government has increased the national health care program since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Dhaka TribuneRegarding ensuring health services to local people along with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, the minister said that basic infrastructure and services were already below average in this southern part of the country.
Many of the health care centres were built here about two decades ago which have also been damaged due to floods and other natural calamities, said Zahid Maleque.
IOM has constructed a new two-storied building demolishing the previous old building of the clinics, said the minister.
The newly constructed buildings are bigger and more environmentally sustainable than before and include solar-powered electricity systems, safe water supply and improved sanitation facilities, he further said.
The minister on Sunday inaugurated 12 new clinics among 100 clinics which are being built under the IOM project.
