Project Briefing Event on Towards Pro-poor Progressive Tax-System in-Bangladesh

On 15 May 2017 a project briefing event was organized in SUPRO Secretariat to disseminate the campaign focus and expected outcome of the project within the members of National Committee of SUPRO.The project was briefly narrated in the event. All the project activities and implementation strategy was shared in the meeting. Oxfam representatives, district campaigners under SUPRO district council members, national council members, SUPRO Secretariat staffs were participated in the project briefing meeting. Total participants were 24, among them 6 female and 18 male. The event was chaired by Mr. S.M. Harun Or Rashid Lal, SUPRO Chairperson. The inaugural speech was delivered by M A Quader, General Secretary of SUPRO. An action plan was developed through the opinion of the participants.

SUPRO Organized a Press Conference on World Health day 2017

Healthcare expenditure keeps rising due to Commercialization at private hospitals

SUPRO has observed World Health Day 2017 in districts and in national level concurrently. The theme of World Health Day 2017 from World Health Organization is " Depression: Let’s Talk". At national level on the eve of World Health Day SUPRO has organized a press conference at Sagor-Runi Auditorium, Dhaka Reporters Unity, Dhaka on 6th April 2017where Vice Chairperson of SUPRO, Manju Rani Pramanik chaired the event. In her speech, Manju Rani Pramanik said that the government should take responsibility to ensure the health care needs for its citizens. “The government should take effective steps to recognize the health as fundamental rights,” she added. SUPRO General Secretary MA Quader moderated the session and presented the key note paper.
Dr Muhammad Abdul Mazid, former chairman of NBR and chief coordinator of Bangladesh Diabetic Samity was present there as a chief guest. He said that depression is the root cause of physical and mental illness. “The people who are suffering from depressive disorder may grow the tendency to be addicted to drugs and may develop suicidal tendency in them,” he added.

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SUPRO Extra Annual General Meeting 2016

SUPRO Extra Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2016 Held at STAR Center, SUPRO office on 24th November 2016. This AGM select a new Executive Board of SUPRO for the next two years (2017 & 2018).
Chairperson of SUPRO Ahmed Swapan Mahmud presided over the AGM and General Secretary of SUPRO Md. Arifur Rahman welcomed all members. Regulations of last meeting minutes was presented and approved in the AGM. Annual Program Report 2016(from January’16 to November’16) and Annual Financial Statement 2016 (from January’16 to November’16) were approved. All the members of this AGM were discussed to the issue of SUPRO organizational policy, future activity plan on different potential issues.
At last the new Executive board was elected in the AGM. The new Executive Board is as below:
Chairperson : S.M. Harun or Rashid Lal ; Vice-chairperson: Manju Rani Pramanik ; General Secretary : M A Quader ; Treasurer : Md. Mahbub Morshed ; Member: Madhab Chandra Dutta ; Member: KGM Faruque ; Member : M A Salam ; Member: Shamima Akter Moonmoon & Member: Parvin Halim.