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UNB, Mymensingh

Speakers at a workshop stressed the need for strengthening publicity campaign in rural areas for sanitation and hygiene and intake of safe water to free the country from various diseases.

Mass awareness is needed at every village to ensure intake of safe water, sanitation and hygiene as 80 percent of the country's population live in rural areas, said Deputy Commissioner of the district M Shamsul Alam.

He said this while addressing as chief guest at a workshop held at Zila Parishad auditorium on Sunday.

BRAC and District Administration jointly organized the workshop titled "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene". Additional Deputy Commissioner Begum Yasmin Afsana presided. Programme head of BRAC health programme Milan Kanti Barua called upon all, including teachers, Imams, government officials, journalists and public representatives, to extend all out cooperation to aware people about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.

Chief of the district Public Health Engineering Department M Sarwar Hossain presented the keynote paper at the workshop. Chief executive of the Zila Parishad Abul Kashem Talukdar, civil surgeon Dr SM Shamsul Alam and BRAC official Afroza Sultana, among others, spoke at the workshop.

About 60 persons, including government officials, teachers, Imams and journalists, took part at the workshop.