Essential Services Campaign
Health Day 09
SUPRO Observed World Health Day 2009
Ensure Health for All. In the name of Users Fee, Stop
Commercialization and Privatization in Health Sector
State must take responsibility of people's health. Stop
Commercialization and Privatization in Health Sector in the name of ‘User Fees’.
The draft Health Policy 2009 should be finalized focusing on people’s rights,
not for profit motive.
Raising these demands, SUPRO observed World Health Day 2009
on 7 April 2009 in 35
districts of Bangladesh
and in Dhaka. Hundreds of people from various stake of
the society enthusiastically took part in the rally and cultural event of SUPRO
on World Health Day. In Dhaka, SUPRO organized a human
chain in front of NationalMuseum,
Shahbag, Dhaka. Dhaka campaign
group of SUPRO performed a street theater highlighting the problems of public
health care system in Bangladesh
World Health Day on 7th April 2008
“Stop
Commercialization and Privatization in Health Sector”
SUPRO
secretariat observed the World Health Day 2008 on 7 April 2008 at south plaza
of National Parliament building in
a very festive mood. Hundreds of people from various stake of the society
enthusiastically took part in the rally and cultural event.
The slogan of the day was “Protecting Health from Climate Change”. In
line with this slogan SUPRO came up with its own slogan as Stop
Commercialization in Health Sector, Protecting Health from Climate Change.
To sensitize the mass people, SUPRO organized discussion and rally in 35
districts of Bangladesh
. People of these districts submitted memorandum to the district commissioner
after observing the day nationwide.
Speakers attended to the human chain said quoting the IPCC, “There is
new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50
years is attributable to human activities.” They also said that the global
average temperature will increase by several degrees of centigrade during this
century.