World Health Day today
Published : 07 Apr 2018, 15:29
The World Health Day is being observed in the country as elsewhere in the globe on Saturday.
The theme of this year’s day is: ‘Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere’.
This is a global health awareness day observed every year on April 7 under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO) marking its birthday.
In 1948, the WHO held the first world health assembly. The assembly decided to celebrate April 7 of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Directorate General of Health Services and different non-government organisations have taken elaborate programmes to observe the day.
The day’s programmes will be inaugurated at Osmani Memorial Auditorium at 10:30am.
Meanwhile, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have issued separate messages on the occasion.
Source: unb