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There are currently 90 community vision centers across the country
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government will gradually expand eye treatment facilities through a community vision center (CVC) to every upazila, as healthy people are needed to move Bangladesh forward.
“In digital Bangladesh, we have brought health services to people’s doorsteps and CVC will be gradually extended to each upazila, as initiatives have already been taken to set up more than 110 CVC across the country,” said she declared.
The prime minister was addressing the opening ceremony of CVCs installed in 70 upazilas in 20 districts of the National Eye Sciences Institute and Hospital (NESIH) in Dhaka, virtually joining his official Ganabhaban residence on Thursday.
Noting that healthy people are needed to build a prosperous Bangladesh, she said the government is putting in place the necessary health facilities for people to stay fit.
Referring to the “digital Bangladesh” opportunities established by the Awami League government, Sheikh Hasina said that now people generally do not need to physically travel to doctors in all cases; instead they can benefit from telemedicine treatment and this has
been possible thanks to digitization.
With the 20 CVCs introduced earlier in eight districts in 2018, the tally has now grown to 90, which would cover around 50 million people, to provide treatment for different eye diseases. To date, some 450,000 patients have been treated by medical specialists through CVCs.
The head of government said eye treatment is expensive and that is why people usually do not receive treatment. “Not only as Prime Minister, but as the daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I cannot let people go untreated,” she said.
“It is my duty to make the necessary arrangements to provide them with treatment [people]”, continued the Prime Minister.
She called on the authorities concerned to ensure more publicity for community clinics as well as CVCs and to motivate people to go there for medical treatment.
Mentioning that Bangabandhu had made the country independent to alleviate the grief and suffering of its people, Sheikh Hasina said, “It is also our responsibility.
Taking power in 1996, the Awami League introduced community clinics to provide door-to-door health services, but the BNP-Jamaat government after 2001 shut down the clinics, she said.
As the people voted AL again in power in 2009, they were able to reopen community clinics with the introduction of CVCs to offer various medical treatments and drugs free of charge, she added.
Expressing his gratitude to the people, the Prime Minister said: “We can work for you [people] and offer different services for your confidence in AL.
Reiterating her call on the population to follow the health rules to stop the spread of Covid-19, she urged them to register for the vaccination and to go to the respective centers when the vaccination date comes instead of creating a any indiscipline in moving there before the set time. .
Sheikh Hasina reiterated his government’s determination to provide land and a home for every homeless person and land in Mujib Borsho. “None will stay home and land less because we’ve kept Tk 100 crore in the budget for that.”
Mentioning the graduation from Bangladesh as a developing country, she pledged that the government and the people would turn the country into a land of hunger and poverty.
a free one, who would see progress with his head held high and self-esteem on a global scale.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque also spoke on the occasion while the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus moderated the function.
Health Secretary Md. Abdul Mannan delivered the welcome speech and NESIH Director Professor Dr Golam Mostafa highlighted different aspects of CVCs.
At the start of the ceremony, a documentary on national eye care and CVC was shown.
Later, the Prime Minister virtually connected with the upazila Peerganj of Rangpur, the upazila Nachole of Chapainawabganj and the upazila Haluaghat of Mymensingh.
She also spoke to CVC beneficiaries and listened to them share the details of their experience.
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