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September 2, 2000
Dhaka, Sept 1 (UNB) – An international conference, aiming to ensure equitable health for all, will be held in Savar on December 4-8. The main objective of the 5-day conference titled, ‘People’s Health Assembly 2000’, is to identify problems, trends and challenges for evolving strategies to ensure health for all classes of people, especially the grassroots ones, around the globe. Over 1,000 representatives from over 100 countries, including Indian noble laureate Prof Amartya Sen and Albanian noble laureate Farid Murad and WHO Chief Brutland, will attend the assembly, organisers said. The assembly is likely to work out an action plan and formulate People’s Heath Charter (PHC). On the basis of the PHC, it will try to influence health planners and governments to rectify their health policies so that ‘equitable health service’ could be ensured for all classes of people. The idea of People’s Health Assembly was mooted in 1985 and preliminary works on it began in 1999. Its activities were distributed among five regional coordination offices: Asia, America, Europe, Australia-Oceania and Africa. Its main secretariat is located at CI office, Penang, Malaysia. |