Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- A delegation of nurses from the United States of America will visit Bangladesh soon to train nurses on various diseases including cancer under a month-long training program in Dhaka.
This was revealed when a nurses’ delegation of Boston Massachusetts General Hospital met the health and family welfare minister, AFM Ruhal Haque, recently who is now on a visit to the USA, according to a message received here on Sunday.
The health minister visited Boston Massachusetts General Hospital and had a meeting with senior vice-president of hospital Jeanette Ives Erickson. The hospital authorities expressed interest to send an expert team to Bangladesh.
Ruhal Haque also attended a roundtable, organized by the Center for Global Health in Boston Massachusetts General Hospital.
CGH director David Bangsberg presided over the roundtable where the experts elaborately discussed the issues of setting up a bone marrow transplantation centre and training for physicians in Bangladesh.
The health minister in the meeting urged the CGH authorities to extend its cooperation for development of the country’s health sector aiming to reducing maternal and child mortality rate by using information and communication technology especially mobile phone in the rural areas.
Stephen Calderwood of Harvard Medical School and research scientist at CGH Jessicn Heberer, among others, were present at the meeting.
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