DHAKA: State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Captain (retd.) Mujibur Rahman Fakir said his ministry would appoint 80,000 additional manpower at different health units in order to ensure health services for all.

Of them, 13,500 would be recruited for community clinics, 30,000 as family planning health workers and 3,000 as nurses.

The appointments will be made in phases, he said a discussion meeting titled “Role of sanitary inspectors in resisting adulteration in food and necessity of increasing the in number of posts”.

The Sanitary Inspectorships Training Welfare Association arranged the discussion at the National Press Club.  

Fakir said the ministry has appointed 6,100 health workers and 4,033 doctors.

“The government has reopened 8,000 community clinics,” he said.

The state minister said the health sector has vacancy of 32,000 people.

Over 200 sanitary inspectors will be appointed  within next two to three months, he added.

The posts of sanity inspector were created in 1927 but the Awami League government in 1973 reintroduced the sanitary inspectorships.

The newly appointed sanitary inspectors will resist adulteration in food and regularly monitor the situation.

The discussion was attended by Bangladesh Medical Association Secretary General Dr. Mohammad Sharifuddin Ahmed, director of health directorate Prof. Dr. Khondaker Sifaet Ullah.  

BDST 1341 HRS, JULY 15 2010