Ayat Skills Development Centre and The Daily Star organized a roundtable titled “Palliative Care: A Call for Public Awareness and Policy Inclusion” on January 06, 2018.
Nusrat Aman, Chief Patron, Ayat Skills Development Centre; Dr. Bimalangshu Ranjan Dey, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Dr Bushra Alam, Senior Health Expert, World Bank; Dr. Rumana Dowla, Founder, Bangladesh Palliative and Supportive Care; Dr. Anne Marie Barron, MGH and Simmons College of Nursing, Boston, USA; Dr. Moarraf Hossen, Director, National Institute for Cancer Research and Hospital; Prof Swapan Kumer, DMCH; Dr. Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy, Chief, Health Programes, UNFPA Bangladesh; Dr. Arif Mahmud, Asst Director, Medical Services, Apollo Hospital; Prof. Mohiuddin Khan, Head of Hematology, DMCH; Dr. Akhil Ranjan Biswas, Associate Professor, BMT Unit DMCH; Shuriya Begum, Registrar, Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council; Rokia Afzal Rahman, Former Advisor to the Caretaker Government, Yusuf Ahmed, Volunteer for Bangladesh and many others placed their view on the importance of palliative care in our country in the round table discussion.
Md. Fazle Rabbi Miah, Deputy Speaker, Bangladesh Parliament said, “Palliative care is particularly needed for rural people who can’t afford to visit Dhaka on a regular basis for check-up and treatment. I would request you to organize more such discussions at the local level, at least at the divisional level, and engage young people of those areas. I will do my best to help this effort.”
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