Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Friday said developed countries should play a stronger role in ensuring quality healthcare services in poor countries too.
“Poor countries often suffer from various food insecurities and do not have access to quality medical care. Therefore developed countries should play a more effective role in the development of the health sector of relatively disadvantaged poor countries,” he said.
The minister made the remarks while addressing the fifth international ministerial summit on worldwide patient safety organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Montreal city of Switzerland.
Health ministers from 80 countries were also present in the programme, presided over by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Calling on Switzerland and other countries to support Rohingya repatriation, the minister said the Rohingyas are becoming a threat day by day to local people and law enforcement agencies are now also struggling to handle this community.
