Staff Reporter:
The government has recently taken a decision to include anti- hypertensive medicine in the drug list of Community Clinic as one in every four adults in Bangladesh is suffering from hypertension, according to a paper presented at the workshop.
National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute’s Hypertension Control Program man-ager Dr Shamim Jubayer and Coordinator, research organization PROGGA’s Hypertension Control and Trans Fat Elimination Project coordinator Sadia Galiba Prova jointly presented the key-note paper on hypertension control in a virtual workshop on Saturday.
Speedy implementation of this decision can play an important role in ensuring free anti-hypertensive medicine for the marginalized population along with controlling the growing preva-lence of hypertension-related non-communicable diseases, the paper suggested.
At the same time, necessary budget must be allocated to ensure an uninterrupted supply of the medicine at Community Clinic and Upazila Health Complex, it said
