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Staff Reporter

Speakers at a meeting yesterday emphasised the need for giving recognition to the physiotherapy treatment in the country to avert substandard treatment.

"The country has been victim of so-called non-trained and inexperienced physiotherapists due to failure of the government to accord proper recognition to the standard procedure of physiotherapy treatment," said former adviser to the Caretaker Government ASM Shahjahan while addressing the meeting as the chief guest.

He urged the Government to appoint physiotherapists at each hospital across the country saying that physiotherapy treatment is necessary to keep human resources active.

The former adviser regretted that the condition of health management of the country is unhealthy.

The meeting was informed that there is one graduate physiotherapist in Bangladesh against its 5,00,000 people where as the ratio in India is 1:75,000 and in USA it is 1:4,285.

Bangladesh Physiotherapist Association (BPA) organised the function at CRP, Mirpur in the city to mark the celebration of obtaining the membership of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) and Annual General Meeting (AGM).

In recognition to the vital role of the BPA in improving the physiotherapy treatment in the country, the WCPT during its 16th General Meeting in Vancouver in June last year awarded its full-fledged membership to the BPA, formed in 2001

Eminent journalist ABM Musa, who addressed the meeting as special guest empathised the need for creating awareness among the mass people about the importance of taking physiotherapy treatment.

He suggested appointment of physiotherapists at least in each Upazila level hospital of the government through PSC.

Presided over by BPA president Dr Md Obaidul Haque, the meeting was also, addressed, among others, by BPA adviser Dr Altaf Hossain Sarker, Helal Uddin Akbar, Dr I Manik, Delwar Hossain, Zakir Uddin, Dr Delwar Rahman and BPA general secretary MD Sohrab Hossain.