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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday his organisation wants to use Bangladeshs achievement in the field of child and maternal health as a showcase to the world.
I am very impressed to see the remarkable achievement of Bangladesh government in reducing child and maternal mortality rates. The government is doing an excellent job, he said.
The UN chief was speaking at a courtyard meeting with expectant mothers at Mobarakpur, a remote village of Moulvibazar on Tuesday.
He went there to visit a community clinic serving expectant mothers and newborns. It is a special clinic where health workers are being trained in a government-led initiative to substantially increase the number of women giving birth with the help of skilled birth attendants.
The UN and Bangladesh will invest more on improving women and children health in the country, Ban told the expectant mothers sitting on mat at a house adjacent to the clinic at Kulaura upazila of the district.
I am very happy to be here in Mobarakpur. I am here to see how the community clinic is functioning to give services to women and children, he said.
The UN chief, who came to Bangladesh Sunday evening on a three-day official tour, also held a meeting with a group of adolescents at the clinic.
You are the hope and future of the world, he told the jubilant adolescents after shaking hands with them.
When they asked him how he felt to be with them, he replied: I am very hopeful and encouraged to be here.
He also discussed different UN initiatives with them.
He left for Dhaka by a chopper around 10:50am.
Earlier, the helicopter carrying the UN chief landed at Salna Primary School around 10:35am, reports our correspondent covering the event.
The clinic is a joint initiative by the government and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to improve maternal and neonatal health.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, United Nations Population Fund, World Heath Organisation and United Nations Children's Fund jointly implemented the project with the financial support of the UK Department for International Development, European Union and Canadian International Development Agency.
The clinic was established in 1999 and since July this year six women gave birth with the help of birth attendants.
I am very impressed to see the remarkable achievement of Bangladesh government in reducing child and maternal mortality rates. The government is doing an excellent job, he said.
The UN chief was speaking at a courtyard meeting with expectant mothers at Mobarakpur, a remote village of Moulvibazar on Tuesday.
He went there to visit a community clinic serving expectant mothers and newborns. It is a special clinic where health workers are being trained in a government-led initiative to substantially increase the number of women giving birth with the help of skilled birth attendants.
The UN and Bangladesh will invest more on improving women and children health in the country, Ban told the expectant mothers sitting on mat at a house adjacent to the clinic at Kulaura upazila of the district.
I am very happy to be here in Mobarakpur. I am here to see how the community clinic is functioning to give services to women and children, he said.
The UN chief, who came to Bangladesh Sunday evening on a three-day official tour, also held a meeting with a group of adolescents at the clinic.
You are the hope and future of the world, he told the jubilant adolescents after shaking hands with them.
When they asked him how he felt to be with them, he replied: I am very hopeful and encouraged to be here.
He also discussed different UN initiatives with them.
He left for Dhaka by a chopper around 10:50am.
Earlier, the helicopter carrying the UN chief landed at Salna Primary School around 10:35am, reports our correspondent covering the event.
The clinic is a joint initiative by the government and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to improve maternal and neonatal health.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, United Nations Population Fund, World Heath Organisation and United Nations Children's Fund jointly implemented the project with the financial support of the UK Department for International Development, European Union and Canadian International Development Agency.
The clinic was established in 1999 and since July this year six women gave birth with the help of birth attendants.
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