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Another health facility in Haitya starts offering 24/7 delivery service
The healthcare scenario of Hatiya, an island Upazila on the southern Bangladesh, is changing fast. Over the last two years or so, six of the upazila’s nine union level health facilities have started offering 24/7 delivery services, the latest being Chanondi Union Health and Family Welfare Centre (UH&FWC) in Subarnachar Upazila in Noakhali.
Inter-University Debate Competition to raise awareness among youth on environment starts in Dhaka
Department of Environment (DoE), BUET Debating Club and Save the Children are currently organizing a debate competition on environment among students of universities in Bangladesh to celebrate upcoming World Environment Day 2018.
A Day for Children to Celebrate the Right to Play
For 13 years old Farzana Akhter, it was a different experience, “we always see boys and girls playing separately and girls feel shy to play in the playground, but it is the first time I participated in such a competition where boys and girls have played together.
MoU signed with Directorate General of Health Services on mass causality management
Save the Children signed MoU with Directorate General of Health Services on April 11, 2018. Country Director Mark Pierce signed on behalf of Save the Children and senior officials from DGHS including Prof Dr. AHM Enayet Hossain, Additional Director General of Health Services (Planning and Development) and Line Director, Non Communicable Diseases Control, DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) were present on the occasion.
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Bangladeshi Delegates Attend UPR Pre-Session at Geneva
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-sessions were introduced in 2012, with the dual aim. Firstly, to create a platform for the civil society to directly advocate to government delegations in advance of the UPR session and secondly, to update diplomatic delegations on countries’ human rights situation.
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Call for Abstract-Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction
The Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Comprehensive School Safety-A Researchers – Practitioners – Policy-Makers Symposium is intended to bring practitioners, policy-makers, and current/future researchers together into the discussion to more systematically and effectively bring evidence into policy and practice, and to support practice based application and research.
