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BSS, Rangpur

The World Diabetes Day-2007 was observed in Rangpur and its adjoining northern districts in a befitting manner on Wednesday.

Rangpur Diabetic Samity (RDS) and District Administration jointly chalked out an elaborate programme to observe the occasion. The programme includes colourful rallies, discussion and cost- free treatment to a large number of the diabetic patients. Deputy Commissioner of Rangpur Khondker Atiar Rahman led the rally that paraded the streets of the town. The rally over, a discussion meeting was organised on the premises of RDS office here.

Among others, Associate Professor of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital Dr Laik Ahmed Khan, president of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mostafa Azad Chowdhury Babu, RDS executives, government officials and elite, addressed the discussion. The concerned district units of the Diabetic Samity in Kurigram, Gaibandha, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Joypurhat and Naogaon and other adjoining districts of the region also chalked out similar programmes.

The speakers in the discussions said spreading of the disease to adults and babies could be controlled and the diabetic patients could lead normal life if massive public awareness were created about the disease in society. They also asked all to work unitedly in preventing the disease for ensuring sound health of everybody.