Worldwide members exhibit network wellbeing laborers' job

The three-day second worldwide symposium on network wellbeing laborers (CHWs) that started in the city on Friday showed that mediations from CHWs could prompt less crisis office visits and less hospitalization, in this manner lessening human services costs.

Teacher Dr Syed Modasser Ali, the Community Clinic Health Support Trust Chairman at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, authoritatively introduced the worldwide symposium.

icddr,b as a team with the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), legislature of Bangladesh; BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH) and Save the Children, Bangladesh are together sorting out the symposium that will proceed until November 24.

Researcher and Project Director, SHARE Project, Health Systems and Population Studies Division at icddr,b Dr Iqbal Anwar conveyed the welcome discourse while the keynote discourse titled "Essential Health Care 2.0: from Alma-Ata to Astana" was given by Dr Rory Nefdt, Senior Advisor, UNICEF, USA.

Modasser Ali invited the members to Bangladesh and said network wellbeing laborers have a remarkable history of giving inoculation, basic wellbeing administration bundle and family arranging administrations in Bangladesh.

He said an ongoing expansion to take the essential human services to the doorsteps of the country populace is 'network facility', which is a mind offspring of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina.

"Network facility is currently serving 50 million rustic individuals of Bangladesh, which is in fact praiseworthy for other creating nations," he said.

The current year's topic is 'Possibilities of Community Health Workers in Prevention and Control of Non-transmittable Diseases (NCDs) in the Context of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)'.

All around, NCDs slaughter 41 million individuals yearly, which is identical to 71 percent everything being equal. Every year, 15 million individuals kick the bucket from a NCD between the ages of 30 and 69 years; more than 85 percent of these 'unexpected losses' happen in low-and center pay nations (LMICs).

It likewise sustains destitution while frustrating monetary advancement in these nations.

The symposium topic further ventured into four subthemes - CHWs programs in low-and center salary nations; CHWs and Universal Health Coverage; CHWs in uncommon circumstance, for example, urban medicinal services, fiasco and environmental change and compassionate setting; and CHWs projects and anticipation and control of NCDs.

In the course of the most recent 100 years, CHWs have been effectively chipping away at key regions, for example, birth and demise enrollment, immunization, giving fundamental social insurance, instruction, and directing administrations.

Their endeavors have helped legislatures of LMICs to essentially handle transferable malady related mortality.

Be that as it may, the ongoing quick move in illness trouble has constrained worldwide general wellbeing specialists to reconsider how best CHWs can be used in recognition, screening and treatment of NCDs, just as palliative consideration.

Sudebi Gusswami, CHCP, Dhamrai, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Dr David Musoke, Co-Chair of the Health Systems Global Thematic Working Group on CHWs, Uganda; Dr John D Clemens, Executive Director at icddr,b; Professor Dr Sabina Faiz Rashid, Dean and Professor, JPGSPH; Judith Herbertson, Country Representative, DFID Bangladesh; Hans Lambrecht, first secretary and Team Leader, Education and Human Development, EU Delegation to Bangladesh; and Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (Admin), DGHS, MoHFW, Bangladesh likewise talked in the debut service.

Roughly 500 members from 35 nations have enrolled, containing policymakers, wellbeing experts, general wellbeing specialists, academicians, delegates from government and non-government associations, and scientists.

Among others, Dr Seharla Abdulahi, State Minister of Health-Operation, Ethiopia additionally took an interest in the symposium, as per icddr,b.

The symposium is additionally bolstered by the USAID, European Union, UKaid, MSH, Vital Strategies, BRAC, UNICEF, UNFPA, and WHO.