Govt to appoint 5,493 more physicians: Rizwana

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said the government has decided to appoint 5,493 doctors across the country.

A meeting of the Advisory Council, presided over by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, today decided this, she said in a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka on Tuesday, March 4.

The Bangladesh Civil Service Commission, PSC, will conduct the recruitment, she said.

BSS adds: Rizwana said the rural people are deprived of healthcare facilities and that is why the main objective of the government's decision at today's meeting is to ensure that healthcare facilities and doctors are available at the rural level.

About the outcomes of the today's meeting of the Advisry Council, she said the council took 135 decisions and a periodical review committee found that 92 decisions out of 135 have already been implemented. Implementation rate is about 68 percent, she added.

The adviser said the council of advisers decided to change the names of two institutions - Bangabandhu Science and Technology Fellowship Trust and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre.

She said the council also decided to determine the rate of saturated fat in food products maintaining the global standard.

Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam, Deputy Press Secretaries Apurba Jahangir and Abul Kalam Azad Majumder and Assistant Press Secretary Suchismita Tithi were also present at the press briefing.

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